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Access, quality and equity in early childhood education and care: A South Australian study
(Australian Journal of Education, 2015-05-29)While much is known about the factors related to student performance beyond Grade 3 less is known about the factors that are related to student performance in early childhood education and the early years in primary school. ... -
Action learning : a strategy for change.
(Shannon Research Press, 2001-07)The National Staff Development Committee of the Vocational Education and Training Sector is promoting action learning as a preferred professional development strategy to support the implementation of key competencies. This ... -
Agreement between activPAL and ActiGraph for assessing children ’ s sedentary time
(BioMed Central, 2012-02-19)Background Accelerometers have been used to determine the amount of time that children spend sedentary. However, as time spent sitting may be detrimental to health, research is needed to examine whether accelerometer ... -
All my students are reading the same book and they're successful: an inclusive teaching approach
(Australian Literacy Educators' Association, 2002)A model for programming proposed by Taylor, Short, Frye and Shearer (1992) was adapted and trialed by classroom teachers (R-9) to investigate how a single text could be used as a basis of instruction for all students in a ... -
Aspirations, progress and perceptions of boys from a single sex school following the changeover to coeducation.
(Shannon Research Press, 2004-08)Career and further education aspirations, educational progress and perceptions of the learning environment were measured annually over three years in primary and secondary boys from a single sex non-government school, ... -
Australian children's perceptions of discretionary foods
(Elsevier, 2017-08-24)Energy-dense nutrient poor foods and drinks, often referred to as discretionary choices, can contribute a significant amount of energy, fat, sodium and sugar to the diet if consumed in large quantities. Currently many ... -
The Australian Early Years Learning Framework: learning what?
(Symposium Journals, 2011)Early childhood education and care have assumed importance in many government policy agendas. This attention is often accompanied by calls for greater accountability regarding the anticipated learning outcomes for young ... -
Autonomy and liberalism in a multicultural society.
(Shannon Research Press, 2005-09)That children should be educated to be ideal citizens, capable of making rational and informed decisions, has been proposed in cultures ranging from Ancient Greece to current societies. In particular, societies that favour ... -
Being in sync: Strategies to support centres’ retention of childcare teachers
(The University of Auckland, 2014)Australia’s National Quality Framework (NQF) is seeking to improve teacher qualifications and ratios to lift the quality of education that young children access (COAG, 2013). The retention of childcare teachers, however, ... -
Blending Formative and Summative Assessment in a Capstone Subject: ‘It’s not your tools, it’s how you use them
(University of Wollongong, 2017-11-30)Discussions about the relationships between formative and summative assessment have come full circle after decades of debate. For some time formative assessment with its emphasis on feedback to students was promoted as ... -
A Case Study of Online Support for International Students in a Doctoral Program
(Shannon Research Press, 2003-07)Online delivery methods that replicate aspects of face-to-face teaching and facilitate learning at a distance are becoming a more common teaching and learning approach in Australian universities teaching external international ... -
Changes in students' achievement in learning the Chinese language across grades and over time.
(Shannon Research Press, 2001-11)This paper examines the changes in students' achievement in learning Chinese as a foreign language across school grades and over a period of a school year in an Australian school. The Rasch model using the QUEST computer ... -
Childcare educators’ understandings of early communication and attachment
(Early Childhood Australia, 2016-12-04)Giving voice to the discipline-specific knowledge and pedagogical practices of childcare educators, this paper attempts to explore new ways of defining educators’ work with young children, given the post-structural turn ... -
Childcare may be expensive but it's worth it in the long run
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Children learning to read: not quite so simple!
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The Chinese Value Survey : an interpretation of value scales and consideration of some preliminary results.
(Shannon Research Press, 2000-07)The Chinese Value Survey (CVS) was developed by Bond and his colleagues as a complement to survey instruments constructed by research workers such as Rokeach (1973) and Schwartz (1992). It was designed to be used with ... -
Contemporary themes in the research enterprise
(Shannon Research Press, 2002-11)This paper discusses themes associated with the enterprise of educational research, particularly as it applies to notions of ontology and epistemology in 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' methodologies. It begins by identifying ... -
A critique of the SACE Review panel's report on community views
(Shannon Research Press, 2006-11)The South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE), introduced in 1992-93, is a credential and formal qualification within the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). SACE was recently subjected to a review that led ... -
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Student Concerns in the Teaching Practicum
(Shannon Research Press, 1999-12)There is general consensus in the literature that students consider the practicum to be a highly valued component of their teacher education degree. Nevertheless, there are wide ranging concerns reported by students related ...