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Resources And Teaching Strategies To Support Aboriginal Children's Numeracy Learning : A Review Of The Literature, Tracey Frigo Jun 1999

Resources And Teaching Strategies To Support Aboriginal Children's Numeracy Learning : A Review Of The Literature, Tracey Frigo

Indigenous Education Research

This literature review focuses on teaching and learning strategies that support the development of numeracy skills in Aboriginal children. Its purpose is to provide a theoretical framework that will inform the development of numeracy materials to support teachers of Aboriginal children in New South Wales primary schools. The key themes which inform a framework for the development of numeracy resources for Aboriginal children are identified as: teaching Aboriginal students; cultural frameworks; engaging in the language of mathematics; and contextualising mathematics.

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The Effects Of Part-Time Work On School Students, Lyn Robinson Mar 1999

The Effects Of Part-Time Work On School Students, Lyn Robinson

LSAY Research Reports

This report investigates the character and consequences of part- time work by school students. It looks at students' experience of part-time work; the measured effects of part-time work on schooling; and the initial labour market outcomes of employment during secondary school.

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Paper And Pen: Assessment Resource Kit, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters Jan 1999

Paper And Pen: Assessment Resource Kit, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters

Assessment Resource Kit

A common method of assessment is to present students with a series of questions or prompts and to use students' written responses as evidence of their levels of knowledge, competence, understanding or attitude. We refer to assessments of this kind as 'paper and pen ' assessments. This issue on paper and pen assessment in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series contains five articles: 1. What is paper and pen assessment? 2. A variety of answer formats; 3. Teacher designed paper and pen assessments; 4. Professionally developed tests; 5. Designing paper and pen assessments.

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Acer 1998-1999 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1999

Acer 1998-1999 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

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Codebook: The Lsay 1996 School Survey Technical Paper No. 12, Stephen Lamb Oct 1998

Codebook: The Lsay 1996 School Survey Technical Paper No. 12, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Technical Reports

Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth is a program of surveys of young people conducted by ACER with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The surveys focus on the education and labour market experiences of groups of young Australians, beginning from their middle years of secondary schooling. Data collected include basic demographic variables, as well as information about educational and labour force participation extending over a number of years. The school survey Students participating in LSAY were originally sampled in 1995 from 298 schools nationally. In 1996 the schools from which the original sample of …

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Acer Newsletter No. 91 Autumn 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Oct 1998

Acer Newsletter No. 91 Autumn 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

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Well-Being Among Young Australians: Effects Of Work And Home Life For Four Youth In Transition Cohorts., Nicole Fleming Sep 1998

Well-Being Among Young Australians: Effects Of Work And Home Life For Four Youth In Transition Cohorts., Nicole Fleming

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the relationship of well-being with a variety of demographic and economic factors among Australian young people. Influences include gender, income, marital and employment status. Data for this report originated from the longitudinal study 'Youth in Transition' and the results indicate that income, employment and relationships are important for maintaining subjective well-being and happiness.

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Youth Earnings In Australia 1980-1994: A Comparison Of Three Youth Cohorts, Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming Sep 1998

Youth Earnings In Australia 1980-1994: A Comparison Of Three Youth Cohorts, Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines hourly earnings among Australian youth. The influences on hourly earnings were analysed in three sections. The first presents the correlation between earnings and social background, school factors, qualifications and labour market history. The second part models earnings using a four step procedure adding, sequentially, social and demographic background factors. school factors, qualifications and Year 12 completion, and employment history. The final section focuses on aging and cohort effects by examining the inmpact on hourly earnings of gender, schooling, qualifications and work experiences at particular ages.

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Attitudes To School Life: Their Influences And Their Effects On Achievement And Leaving School, Gary Marks Sep 1998

Attitudes To School Life: Their Influences And Their Effects On Achievement And Leaving School, Gary Marks

LSAY Research Reports

This report investigates students' attitudes to school life. Such attitudes may have some implications for achievement and other outcomes of education. These attitudes can also be used as a measure for educational outcomes in their own right. This study examines three aspects of student attitudes to school life: changes over a time period; the influence of individual and school-level variables on attitudes; and the effect of these attitudes on achievement and leaving school.

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Factors Influencing Youth Unemployment In Australia: 1980- 1994., Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming Jul 1998

Factors Influencing Youth Unemployment In Australia: 1980- 1994., Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming

LSAY Research Reports

Examines unemployment amongst Australian youth between 1980 and 1994. Factors associated with employment levels are discussed including demographic factors, educational achievement and economic indicators.

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Acer Newsletter No. 93 Spring 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1998

Acer Newsletter No. 93 Spring 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

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Products: Assessment Resource Kit, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters Jan 1998

Products: Assessment Resource Kit, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters

Assessment Resource Kit

Products are items which students make, usually in technology and the visual arts. Examples include items of food and clothing, pieces of artwork (drawings, paintings, sculptures) and articles made of wood, metal, plastics and ceramics. Product assessment is the assessment of students' mastery of the processes and tools required to make products (for example, design and production processes) and the assessment of the practical and/ or aesthetic qualities of the items students make. This is a guide to assessing student products in the technology and visual arts curriculum. It is an issue in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series …

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Schools In Australia: 1973-1998 The 25 Years Since The Karmel Report (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1998

Schools In Australia: 1973-1998 The 25 Years Since The Karmel Report (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

1998 - Schools in Australia: 1973-1998 The 25 years since the Karmel Report

The conference was organised by the Australian Council for Educational Research to honour Professor Peter Karmel in his concluding year as Chair of the ACER Council and Board of Directors. The Commonwealth Government became involved with school education in Australia in a new and major way with the establishment of the Australian Schools Commission in 1973. Professor Karmel was Chair of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission which presented its influential report, Schools in Australia, in 1973. This conference examines developments in schooling in Australia since then.

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The School To Work Transition Of Indigenous Australians: A Review Of The Literature And Statistical Analysis, Michael Long, Tracey Frigo, Margaret Batten Jan 1998

The School To Work Transition Of Indigenous Australians: A Review Of The Literature And Statistical Analysis, Michael Long, Tracey Frigo, Margaret Batten

Indigenous Education Research

This report was commissioned by the Task Force on School to Work Transition for Indigenous Australians in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The Task Force was established to examine issues of access to Departmental programs and services for young Indigenous people moving from school to work and to consider ways in which programs and polices could be enhanced to assist clients in overcoming barriers to education and employment. The report describes the current situation in terms of the pathways for Indigenous young people and their participation in relevant DEETYA programs. The report identifies barriers to successful …

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Acer Newsletter No. 92 Winter 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1998

Acer Newsletter No. 92 Winter 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

Investigating literacy and numeracy growth in the primary school years LLANS project - Barry McGaw leaves ACER for OECD - Who are our tertiary students? - Maths and science study repeat for lower secondary students - Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R). Politicising the standards debate (McGaw).

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What's The Point? Political Attitudes Of Victorian Year 11 Students, Suzanne Mellor Jan 1998

What's The Point? Political Attitudes Of Victorian Year 11 Students, Suzanne Mellor

ACER Research Monographs

Examines the civic and political attitudes of young Australians. The study uses as its basis a study by the internationally recognised American researcher Caroline Hahn, who spent ten years investigating the political attitudes of students in the United States, England, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The author examines students' attitudes on classroom climate, political experience and interest, political trust, efficacy and confidence as well as equal political rights for women, free expression and civic rights. By using a modified Hahn questionnaire, the author is able to compare Victorian and overseas students. The picture that emerges of our students' political attitudes …

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Lifelong Learning As A Policy Response, Phillip Mckenzie Jan 1998

Lifelong Learning As A Policy Response, Phillip Mckenzie

Centre for the Economics of Education & Training (CEET)

This paper attempts to identify the major elements of a lifelong learning framework, and the policy priorities if its aims are to be realised. In doing so, it comments on the progress that Australia has already made in this regard.

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Acer 1997-1998, 68th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1998

Acer 1997-1998, 68th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

Contents: Valuing Educational Research, Research highlights, Benchmarking against the world, Social development, Indigenous education, Cambodia exams, Selecting tomorrow's doctors, Assessing reasoning skills, Celebrating language learning, Monitoring standards in education, Education index online

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Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 2 (1996), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Oct 1997

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 2 (1996), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Acer Newsletter No. 88 Autumn 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Oct 1997

Acer Newsletter No. 88 Autumn 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

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Overview Of The Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth Program 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Aug 1997

Overview Of The Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth Program 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program brings together two existing, long-established projects, ACER’s Youth in Transition and DEETYA’s Australian Youth Survey. The origins and extent of these two projects are described in the following pages. While contact with the AYS cohort is due to finish in 1997, it is hoped to continue to survey members of the Youth in Transtion 1975 birth cohort up to at least age 25. In addition, a new program of surveys of students progressing through school and into postschool education and the labour force was established in 1995. New cohorts of Year 9 …

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School Achievement And Initial Education And Labour Market Outcomes, Stephen Lamb Jul 1997

School Achievement And Initial Education And Labour Market Outcomes, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

This report looks at the relationships between literacy and numeracy achievement in junior secondary school and a range of education, training and labour market outcomes at age nineteen. It pays particular attention to the education and labour market effects of differences in literacy and numeracy skills.

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The 1965 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1981-1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

The 1965 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1981-1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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The 1970 Cohort Questionnaires: 1980, 1985-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

The 1970 Cohort Questionnaires: 1980, 1985-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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The 1975 Cohort Questionnaires: 1989-1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

The 1975 Cohort Questionnaires: 1989-1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Acer Newsletter No. 90 Spring 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

Acer Newsletter No. 90 Spring 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

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The 1961 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1978-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

The 1961 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1978-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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The Australian Youth Survey Description Technical Paper No. 7, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1997

The Australian Youth Survey Description Technical Paper No. 7, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The Australian Youth Survey (AYS) is a major longitudinal survey of young Australians set up to provide policy-relevant information on young people's education and training pathways as well as their access to and success in the Australian labour market. The survey follows a nationally representative group of young people aged 16 to 19, with the initial cohort of approximately 5350 young people interviewed for the first time in 1989. Since then the sample has been interviewed annually on a wide range of topics including school experiences, school-to-work transition, labour market experiences, post-school education and training, income, health, housing and job …

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Reading Comprehension And Numeracy Among Junior Secondary School Students In Australia, Gary Marks, John Ainley Mar 1997

Reading Comprehension And Numeracy Among Junior Secondary School Students In Australia, Gary Marks, John Ainley

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the performance, and levels of mastery, on tests of reading comprehension and numeracy of Australian students in junior secondary school between 1975 and 1995. Data for the analyses reported were drawn from two national monitoring studies and other studies of representative samples of junior secondary school students designed to monitor the progress of young people through school into further education, training and work. In each of the studies students completed tests that are similar to those conducted in the Australian states and territories and overseas to monitor student performance. The tests focussed on reading skills (which correlate …

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Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 1 (1995) Technical Paper No. 9, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Feb 1997

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 1 (1995) Technical Paper No. 9, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The surveys focus on the education and labour market experiences of groups of young Australians, beginning from their middle years of secondary schooling. Data collected include basic demographic variables, as well as information about educational and labour force participation and experiences extending over a number of years. The present form of the LSAY program commenced in 1995 with a national sample of Year 9 students. The program also brings together earlier longitudinal studies conducted by ACER under the Youth in Transition (YIT) program, and by the Commonwealth under the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS) and Australian Youth Survey (AYS) programs. The …

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