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The NAPLAN Numeracy Test: Do School Type and Socio-Economic Background Make a Difference?
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Forgasz, Helen; Leder, Gilah – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2022
Explorations of the national NAPLAN numeracy data consistently reveal a strong relationship between achievement on these tests and students' socio-economic background. A small but persistent pattern of gender difference favouring males in mean NAPLAN numeracy scores is also reported. Whether these patterns are replicated for students attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Numeracy, Mathematics Tests
NAPLAN versus In-School Assessment: How Similar or Different Are Students' Results?
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Lee, Jihyun; McArthur, William; Ellis, Neville John – Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare students' results in mathematics from a large-scale standardized assessment, the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), with a set of teacher-developed, school-based assessments. A case study of an all-boys secondary school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was conducted over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy
Investigating the Reciprocal Relations between Academic Buoyancy and Academic Adversity: Evidence for the Protective Role of Academic Buoyancy in Reducing Academic Adversity over Time
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Martin, Andrew J.; Marsh, Herbert W. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
What is the relationship between academic buoyancy and academic adversity? For example, does the experience of academic adversity help build students' academic buoyancy in school--or, does academic buoyancy lead to decreases in subsequent academic adversity? This longitudinal study of 481 high school students (Years 7-12) investigated the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies
Associations between 24-Hour Time Use and Academic Achievement in Australian Primary School-Aged Children
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Watson, Amanda; Dumuid, Dorothea; Olds, Tim – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: Previous research has examined associations between individual activity behaviors and academic achievement. Yet activity behaviors should be analyzed together because they are codependent parts of the 24-hour day. Aims: This study aims to explore the associations between all daily activity behaviors (sleep, sedentary time, light…
Descriptors: Correlation, Time Management, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Commercialisation in Australian Public Education and Its Implications for the Delivery of English as an Additional Language/Dialect: An EAL/D Teacher Perspective
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Sue Creagh; Skye Playsted; Anna Hogan; Tae-Hee Choi; Bob Lingard – TESOL in Context, 2023
Privatisation and commercialisation in education encompass a range of interrelated practices, including the outsourcing of educational services as well as increased reliance on commercially produced resources for the delivery of learning and assessment. An increase in these practices has accompanied the shift from centralised systemic management…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Why Poor Children Are More Likely to Become Poor Readers: The School Years
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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