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Erin L. Whittle; Karen Fisher; Preeyaporn Srasuekbul; Julian Trollor – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Current evidence indicates that intellectual disability and gender are both factors in differential usage of services. However, there are limited data about the demographic and service usage patterns of people with intellectual disability who use mental health services. This is particularly true in relation to women with intellectual…
Descriptors: Females, Mental Health, Clinical Diagnosis, Profiles
Osenk, Ivana; Johnson, Catherine; Wade, Tracey D. – School Mental Health, 2023
Perfectionism has adverse impacts on mental health and academic outcomes. We evaluated a 5-lesson classroom intervention for young adolescents delivered by teachers for impact on perfectionism, well-being, self-compassion, academic motivation and negative affect, at post-intervention and 3-month follow-up. Classes (N = 636 students, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Randomized Controlled Trials, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
Roe, Elizabeth; Jensen, Lynn; Finlay-Jones, Amy; White, Scott W.; Wong, Kingsley; Leonard, Helen; Straker, Leon; Downs, Jenny – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Aim: To investigate developmental trajectories in early childhood and predictors of class assignment. Methods: Data were available for Gen2 infants at 12 (n = 2275), 24 (n = 1845) and 36 (n = 2110) months of age in the Raine Study. Latent growth class analysis was used to identify developmental trajectories based on the Ages and Stages…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Risk, Risk Assessment
Wheldall, Kevin; Bell, Nicola; Wheldall, Robyn; Madelaine, Alison; Reynolds, Meree – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
Recently, there has been debate surrounding the potential implementation of the Phonics Screening Check (PSC) in Australian primary schools. The present study sought to investigate the child- and task-related factors influencing the PSC performances of Year 1 Australian students, who had received almost two years of systematic synthetic phonics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, Screening Tests, Teaching Methods
Sahlberg, Pasi; Cobbold, Trevor – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Equity has become a central principle in educational policy and leadership around the world. However, there is a wide range of interpretations of equity and what it means in education. In this article we explore different definitions of educational equity from policy and leadership perspectives. Our aim is to give an operational definition of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement
Sultmann, William; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
Australian students' perception of a trial Religious Education (RE) programme is the focus of this paper. Students (N = 1478) from 37 schools, primary and secondary, completed an online survey that included six Likert style items that aligned with six RE development principles that guided the development of the trial. Curriculum development was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Religious Education, Student Surveys, Elementary School Students
Yager, Zali; Gray, Tonia; Curry, Christina; McLean, Siân A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020
Background: Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers are in a unique position to act as role models to their students. Purpose: To explore the expectations, beliefs and attitudes towards role modelling of health behaviours by pre-service teachers who were specialising in HPE, and those who were not. Study design: Cross-sectional, Survey…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Tso, Melissa K.W.; Rowland, Bosco; Toumbourou, John W.; Guadagno, Belinda L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Being overweight or obese (overweight/obesity) or physically aggressive in childhood and adolescence can have lifelong consequences, hence are important public health problems. Identifying a relationship between these problems would assist in understanding their developmental origins. The present paper sought to review previous studies and use…
Descriptors: Obesity, Aggression, Children, Adolescents
Gardner, Paul – English in Australia, 2018
The 2017 NAPLAN results were followed by political and media attention focusing on a decline in achievement in writing. This article analyses NAPLAN data to identify the locus of the decline. Contrary to media reports in which it was suggested Year 3 was problematic, the article systematically compares NAPLAN results between 2011 and 2017 to…
Descriptors: Test Score Decline, Data Analysis, Academic Achievement, Writing Achievement
Sincovich, Alanna; Gregory, Tess; Harman-Smith, Yasmin; Brinkman, Sally Anne – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Despite widespread utilization, research exploring associations between playgroup and child development is scarce. We analyzed a national data set measuring the holistic development of children aged 4 to 6 years who commenced school in Australia in 2015 (n = 104,767), the Australian Early Development Census, to explore developmental differences…
Descriptors: Play, Correlation, Child Development, Preschool Children
Redmond, Petrea; Peled, Yehuda – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The ubiquitous nature of technology in the world has not yet translated into the ubiquitous use of technology to transform learning and teaching. Teachers lack the confidence and competence to integrate technology across a broad range of tools within a range of contexts. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) has become a common…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Gender Differences, Secondary School Teachers
Farley, Alan; Yang, Helen Hong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This is the first study that examines the comparative validity of the Chinese National College Entrance Exam (known as Gaokao) to a Western end-of-secondary-school performance measure, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), as admission criteria to an Australian undergraduate degree programme. The study offers a strong warning about using just…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations
Florio, Tony; Trollor, Julian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Objectives: The main objective of the study was to compare mortality for people with an intellectual disability (ID) to the general population in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. A second objective was to provide mortality data for people with an intellectual disability from NSW in a standardized format, which allows for international comparisons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mortality Rate, Mental Retardation, Death
Mori, Yuka; Downs, Jenny; Wong, Kingsley; Heyworth, Jane; Leonard, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Using the Short Form 12 Health Survey this cross-sectional study examined parental well-being in caregivers of children with one of three genetic disorders associated with intellectual disability; Down syndrome, Rett syndrome and the CDKL5 disorder. Data were sourced from the Western Australian Down Syndrome (n = 291), Australian Rett Syndrome (n…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Well Being, Genetic Disorders, Multivariate Analysis
Uink, Bep Norma; Modecki, Kathryn Lynn; Barber, Bonnie L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Previous Experience Sampling Method (ESM) studies demonstrate that adolescents' daily emotional states are heavily influenced by their immediate social context. However, despite adolescence being a risk period for exposure to daily stressors, research has yet to examine the influence of peers on adolescents' emotional responses to stressors…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables, Peer Influence