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Daniel Carr; Laura Good; Lihini De Silva; Jenny Donovan; Zid Mancenido; Kate Ridgway, Contributor; John Ainley, Contributor – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2023
Over the past three decades Australia has developed an increasingly advanced national system of student assessments, results from which have been used to identify areas of growth, stagnation or decline in student learning. For the most part, trends in different standardised assessments have been considered in isolation. By examining literacy and…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Student Evaluation
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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