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Acer Newsletter No. 89 Winter 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Mapping Literacy Achievement: Results Of The 1996 National School English Literacy Survey: Incorporating A Report On The Survey Principles, Procedures And Findings, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Forster

Monitoring Learning

The national school English literacy survey conducted in 1996 provides the most comprehensive picture yet developed of the literacy achievements of Year 3 and Year 5 students in Australian schools. The most significant finding of the survey is the wide range of literacy achievement among Australian children. The top ten per cent of students in each year are working about five year levels ahead of the bottom ten per cent. This range indicates the complexity of the teacher's task in providing appropriate learning opportunities for all students, and the need for schools to reflect on the implications of this range …

Literacy Standards In Australia, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Forster

Monitoring Learning

This publication reports the percentages of year 3 and year 5 students meeting clear performance standards in reading and writing based on the 1996 National School English Literacy Survey. The performance standards described and illustrated in this report are informed by work to develop 'benchmarks' in literacy and numeracy under the direction of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. Examples of survey assessment tasks and student work samples are provided to illustrate performance standards for year 3 and year 5 students.

Acer 1996-1997, 67th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

This annual report for 1996-97 begins with ACER's Role and Structure, presenting ACER's guiding values, commitments, and goals, and discussing the origin and development of ACER, professional services, and organization and staffing. The report's other sections are: Highlights of the Year for ACER (Research and Development; Organizational Developments; Staff Activities); Director's Comment: Politicizing the Standards Debate; Measurement Division; Policy Research Division; International Development Division; ACER Press (Product Development; Publishing; Marketing and Customer Service); Corporate Services Division (The Cunningham Library; Computer Services; Personnel Services; Equal Opportunity Committee); Staff Publications and Professional Activities (Staff Publications; Staff Professional Activities outside ACER); Financial Report …

The Mayer Key Competencies And Arts Education, Jennifer Bryce, Adrian Harvey-Beavis, Joan Livermore, John O'Toole

Lifelong learning

This report Is the major outcome of the project Evaluating the Key Competencies In the Arts conducted by the National Affiliation of Arts Educators (NAAE) and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA). The report uses the voices of arts teachers to show how the key competencies may have a generic function across the five arts areas and to explain how the construct of 'competency' makes sense In the arts field. Information on the use of the Mayer key competencies was collected from teachers in …

School Students And Part-Time Work, Lyn Robinson

LSAY Research Reports

This report is about student-workers. The youthful part-time workers encountered in supermarket delicatessens, hot bread shops and fast food stores throughout Australia in the 1990s are very likely to also be full-time secondary school students. Over the past two to three decades, the increasing number of students who combine study at school with part-time employment outside of school hours has been widely observed, although estimates of how many school students have jobs vary greatly. Furthermore, while the trend has been well recognised, its implications have frequently been overlooked. Consideration of the student-worker phenomenon gives rise to a number of questions …

Acer Newsletter No. 85 Autumn 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Reading And Numeracy Achievement Tests: 1975-1995 Technical Paper No. 1, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

This document contains the following tests:

Australian Studies in School Performance 1975 Reading Test

Australian Studies in School Performance 1975 Numeracy Test

Australian Studies in Student Performance 1980 Reading Test

Australian Studies in Student Performance 1980 Numeracy Test

Youth in Transition/ Australian Youth Survey 1989 Reading Test

Youth in Transition/ Australian Youth Survey 1989 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1990 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1990 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1991 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1991 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1992 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1992 Numeracy Test

Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth 1995 Reading Test …

Completing School In Australia: Trends In The 1990s, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

To help examine the recent downturn in school completion rates in Australia this report makes use of two sources of data. The first is from the Schools Australia series published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The figures provided by this series are compiled from enrolment information collected from schools by individual state and territory departments of education as well as by the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The figures provide aggregate information on school retention and participation by state and school system. The second set of data is from the Australian Youth Survey which …

Acer Newsletter No. 87 Spring 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Samples And Sampling For The Y95 Lsay Cohort Technical Paper No. 8, Michael Long

LSAY Technical Reports

This paper outlines the intended and achieved samples for the first cohort in the program of Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. Some earlier discussions that relate to the sample design are available in LSAY Technical Reports Numbers 2 and 7.

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

Assessment Resource Kit

Portfolios are sources of evidence for judgements of student achievement in a range of contexts, from classroom monitoring of student performance to high-stakes summative assessment. All portfolios, whatever their purpose, contain 'pieces of evidence'. The more relevant the evidence, the more useful it is for inferring a student's level of achievement in a learning area. This issue on portfolios in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series contains five articles: 1. Different portfolios for different purposes; 2. Working portfolios; 3. Documentary portfolios; 4. Show portfolios; 5. Designing portfolio assessments.

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

Assessment Resource Kit

Developmental assessment is the process of monitoring a student's progress through an area of learning so that decisions can be made about the best ways to facilitate further learning. Developmental assessment uses a progress map or continuum that describes the nature of development or progress or growth in an area of learning and so provides a frame of reference for monitoring individual development. Progress is monitored in much the same way as a child's physical growth is monitored: from time to time an estimate is made of a student's location on a developmental continuum, and changes in location provide measures …

Progress Maps: Assessment Resource Kit, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Forster

Assessment Resource Kit

A progress map describes the nature of development in an area of learning and so provides a frame of reference for monitoring individual growth. An essential feature of a progress map is that it describes and illustrates developing competence. This issue in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series discusses how to construct a progress map and check against student achievement for revision of progress, elaborating, and refining descriptions of typical progress through an area of learning, and setting benchmarks. It comprises five articles on different aspects progress maps: 1. What is a progress map; 2. Drafting a progress map; …

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

Assessment Resource Kit

The assessment of some kinds of learning requires the observation of student performances. Examples include playing a musical instrument, dancing, using scientific apparatus, operating equipment, performing gymnastics routines, diving, problem-solving in a group, applying ball-handling skills, and participating in small group discussions. 'Performance assessment' is the assessment of students as they engage in an activity. It is the on-the-spot evaluation of performance, behaviour or interaction. This issue on the assessment of performances in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series contains five articles: 1. What is performance assessment? 2. Informal classroom observations; 3. Classroom performance assessment 'events'; 4. When comparability …

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

Assessment Resource Kit

Projects are extended pieces of work completed over a period of time. They are investigations which involve the collection, organisation, evaluation, and presentation of material or data. Projects are usually completed by individuals or small groups of students with the teacher acting as supervisor. This issue of the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series is intended to give teachers a deeper understanding of how to assess student projects. Topics covered in the five articles include: what is project assessment, ways of assessing the process of project work, ways of assessing the end products of project work, comparing student projects and …

Acer Quest: The Interactive Test Analysis System. Version 2.1., Raymond J. Adams, Siek-Toon Khoo

Measurement and statistics

This is a guide to using Quest. Quest offers a comprehensive test and questionnaire analysis environment by providing a data analyst with access to the most recent developments in Rasch measurement theory, as well as a range of traditional analysis procedures. It includes an easy to use control language with flexible and informative output. Quest can be used to construct and validate variables based on both dichotomous and polychotomous observations. It scores and analyses such instruments as multiple choice tests, Likert type rating scales, short answer items, and partial credit items.

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Maths & Science On The Line: Australian Junior Secondary Students' Performance In The Third International Mathematics And Science Study, Jan Lokan, Phoebe Ford, Lisa Greenwood

TIMSS 1995

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) was a comparative study of mathematics and science study involving more than half a million student participants from three stages of their schooling in 45 countries. TIMSS was preceded by two earlier mathematics studies and two earlier science studies, carried out separately from other and each much smaller than TIMSS in terms of the numbers of countries and students involved. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), which currently has its secretariat in Amsterdam, sponsored all of these studies. TIMSS investigated mathematics and science achievement at three stages of …

Acer Newsletter No. 86 Winter 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

Item Statistics For The Reading And Numeracy Tests: 1975-1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Acer 1995-1996 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Integration Of Learning Technology In Queensland State Schools: A Case Study Of The Queensland Sunrise Centre, Glenn D. Finger

Digital learning research

This thesis provides information, implications, and recommendations, derived from an evaluation of the Queensland Sunrise Centre (QSC), which will assist educational policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation strategies for integrating learning technology into the school curriculum. In addition, the thesis makes a theoretical contribution to school level evaluations through the development, implementation, and appraisal of an evaluation model based on fourth generation evaluation (4GB) principles by directly involving stakeholders in the evaluation process. The establishment of the Queensland Sunrise Centre (QSC) in 1990 involved the creation of innovative technology-rich learning environments for students and teachers in which each of them had …

Acer Newsletter No. 84 October 1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer Newsletter No. 83 June 1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer Newsletter No. 82 March 1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer 1994-1995 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

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Acer Newsletter No. 81 October 1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer Newsletter No. 80 June 1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer Newsletter No. 79 March 1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

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Acer 1993-1994 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

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