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Summing Up : Australian Numeracy Performances, Practices, Programs And Possibilities., Brian Doig Jan 2001

Summing Up : Australian Numeracy Performances, Practices, Programs And Possibilities., Brian Doig

Literacy and numeracy

Summing Up traces the history of the concept of numeracy and explores its place in current educational settings. It presents an up-to-date review of numeracy research and practices, as well as results of large-scale assessment studies.

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Language Implications For Numeracy: A Study Of Language Use Of Disadvantaged Students, Robyn Zevenbergen Oct 2000

Language Implications For Numeracy: A Study Of Language Use Of Disadvantaged Students, Robyn Zevenbergen

2000 - Improving Numeracy Learning

Increasingly language is recognised as causing difficulties for students when they come to learn mathematics. Many different levels and aspects of language can be seen to create such difficulties for students. This paper looks at the implications of language on learning mathematics or developing a sense of numeracy.

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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 Jan 1996

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 …

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Mathematics: A Curriculum Profile For Australian Schools, Australian Education Council Jan 1994

Mathematics: A Curriculum Profile For Australian Schools, Australian Education Council

Mathematics

A joint project of the States, Territories and the Commonwealth of Australia initiated by the Australian Education Council, this is one of a series of sixteen documents representing collaborative curriculum development in Australia across eight areas of learning. The statements provide a framework for curriculum development by education systems and schools. They are divided into strands and further structured in four bands, roughly corresponding to the stages of schooling: lower primary, upper primary, junior secondary and post-compulsory. The statements do not provide a syllabus. Rather, they provide a foundation for courses which will meet students' needs and reflect advances in …

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Profiles Of Learning. The Basic Skills Testing Program In New South Wales 1989, Geoff N. Masters, Janice Lokan, Brian Doig, Siek Toon Khoo, John Lindsey, Lynette Robinson, Susan Zammit Jan 1990

Profiles Of Learning. The Basic Skills Testing Program In New South Wales 1989, Geoff N. Masters, Janice Lokan, Brian Doig, Siek Toon Khoo, John Lindsey, Lynette Robinson, Susan Zammit

Assessment and Reporting

The 1989 Basic Skills Testing Program in New South Wales provides the most comprehensive picture yet compiled of literacy and numeracy learning in Australian primary schools. In 1989, some 53,800 Year 6 students in NSW government schools were tested in five aspects of literacy and numeracy. Another 2,300 Year 3 students took part in a pilot study. This book discusses the writing of the tests, the analysis of results, and the reporting of results to parents, teachers and schools. The aim of the basic skills tests is to describe, in positive terms, the skills that students have mastered, to identify …

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Ends And Means In Arithmetic, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1952

Ends And Means In Arithmetic, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Primary School Studies

First published in 1952, this pamphlet suggests there is need for a new approach to the subject of applied arithmetic. But social utility, if not the sole justification of arithmetic, is the main one. If it were applied as a touchstone to the litter of wearisome material that clutters up the present courses, much would be found false and useless. Perhaps if we could agree upon the ends that arithmetic should serve, we would have gone a long" way towards finding the means to attain them.

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