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Kearney, Sean – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
In Australia, the recognition of the importance of induction for beginning teachers has been present for over three decades. In 2016, the first set of guidelines was introduced to implement beginning teacher induction: "Graduate to proficient: Australian Guidelines for teacher induction into the profession." However, reports of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Guidelines
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Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Maloney, Carmel – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
This paper investigates the implementation and outcomes of "Growing Better Beginnings": a family literacy program for four and five year olds. The program builds on "Better Beginnings: Birth to Three" launched in 2005. Parents, teachers and librarians were surveyed and interviewed to ascertain their perceptions of the program.…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Preschool Children, Child Development, Parent Surveys
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Gobby, Brad – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
The Independent Public Schools (IPS) program began to be implemented in some Western Australian schools in 2010. The IPS program devolves a number of responsibilities to principals and is part of the political objective of removing the constraints of the education bureaucracy by fostering school level decision-making, problem-solving and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Program Implementation, Decision Making
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Blackley, Susan; Walker, Rebecca – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
There is a body of research around the uptake of digital technologies in secondary schools, and a growing body of research specifically designed to investigate the use of one-to-one laptop programs. However this research focused on the initial uptake of the digital technology or initial implementation of a one-to-one (1:1) laptop policy. Given the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Middle School Students
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Beltman, Susan – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
Professionals' learning and motivation is regarded as social, situated and constructed. For successful implementation of new professional learning, consideration of both person and context is needed. Individual motivational beliefs regarding activities are, for example, inseparable from and mutually shaped by the social context in which these…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Social Environment, Professional Development, Continuing Education
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Cooper, Richard – Issues in Educational Research, 2007
This paper presents a positivist quantitative case study of four rural Queensland schools implementing the Queensland Studies Authority's outcomes based education curriculum. Queensland's school-based management system means that these schools are operating at distinctly different points along their implementation phase. This research shows how…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Outcome Based Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies