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Vanderburg, Robert M.; Trotter, Paul – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Teachers have come under increased pressure to improve educational outcomes as Australia has sought to meet the challenges of competing on an international level. This intensified pressure has been accompanied by improved levels of funding, a National Curriculum for all Australian states, and territories, along with assessments to measure these…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Resilience (Psychology), Student Development, Foreign Countries
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Sciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
School socio-economic compositional (SEC) effects have been influential in educational research predicting a range of outcomes and influencing public policy. However, some recent studies have challenged the veracity of SEC effects when applying residualised-change and fixed effects models and simulating potential measurement errors in hierarchical…
Descriptors: School Demography, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect
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Spina, Nerida – English in Education, 2017
The global neoliberal context and the emergence of new forms of 'governance by numbers' is now recognized as a ubiquitous educational phenomenon. In this context, large-scale assessments such as are used to justify marketised ideals of education that rely on comparison by numbers. In Australia, one of the key arguments for large scale standardised…
Descriptors: Governance, Neoliberalism, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Buckingham, Jennifer; Wheldall, Kevin; Beaman-Wheldall, Robyn – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
Socioeconomic status at the individual- and school-level are positively related to literacy achievement in all English-speaking countries. The components of socioeconomic status -- income, parent education and parent occupation -- are each statistically significant predictors of school literacy achievement but they are primarily a proxy for more…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Correlation
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Dinham, Stephen – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
There has been a major and growing international focus on improving the quality of teaching for decades. In Australia, there have been numerous key national initiatives introduced since 2007 with the aim of improving school, teacher and student performance. These include national testing and reporting of student achievement, national professional…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Improvement
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Marks, Gary N. – Australian Journal of Education, 2014
This paper examines changes in demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in student achievement over the school career, and the extent that these inequalities are accounted for by other influences such as, region and socioeconomic background (where appropriate), school differences and prior achievement. The data analysed are from a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies