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Direct linkQuick, Joanne – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2020
Literacy interventions are a common educational response for supporting students with literacy difficulties. Australian schools historically offered such programs,, though recent studies were not found in the research literature. This paper reports on school-level and literacy intervention data for a randomly selected sample of 366 schools, from…
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Problems
Quick, Joanne – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2020
This paper provides data on patterns of schools' learning intervention provision in 2017, and discusses the utility of online sources to gather this information. Demographic, achievement, and intervention data were collected for a sample of 366 schools offering primary education across Australia's five more populous states. Intervention offerings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Elementary Schools, Literacy Education
Siew Fong Yap – Teaching Science, 2024
In Australia, it has been observed that there have been significant declines in the proportion of students studying senior sciences over the last two decades (Commonwealth of Australia 2017 & 2018; Steidtmann et.al, 2023). It has been suggested that one of the causes for this decline could be a link between students' literacy achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy
Download full textPaul Weldon; Jonathan Heard; Jess Thompson; Tanya Stephenson – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2023
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) conducted an online survey and a series of interviews as part of a project commissioned by the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO). The survey and interviews were focused on students in Years 7 to 9 who lack the foundational literacy and numeracy skills that are required to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Literacy, Numeracy
Byrne, Brian; Little, Callie W.; Olson, Richard K.; Larsen, Sally A.; Coventry, William L.; Weymouth, Rachel – Journal of School Choice, 2020
Asbury and Wai ("Journal of School Choice," 2019) perform a valuable service by summarizing much available behavior--genetic research on academic achievement. However they consider that no specific policies stem from the research body at this time. Here we do propose a policy based on some of our research using twins, namely that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Resource Allocation
Russo, James A. – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2019
Building on the rich tradition of 'teacher as researcher' in mathematics education, I describe a study undertaken whilst working as a mathematics specialist in an Australian primary school. The focus of the study was on examining whether explicitly teaching students test-taking strategies ('test-wiseness') improved their performance on a…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
