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Amanda Haddow; Daniel Edwards; Lorissa Hazelman – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2024
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. SDG 4 includes 10 targets, of which Target 4.b aims to expand higher education scholarships for developing countries. Target 4.b leverages the benefits of international education to…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Higher Education, Developing Nations, International Educational Exchange
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Knight, Simon; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Ryan, Philippa; Sándor, Ágnes; Wang, Xiaolong – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2018
Research into the teaching and assessment of student writing shows that many students find academic writing a challenge to learn, with legal writing no exception. Improving the availability and quality of timely formative feedback is an important aim. However, the time-consuming nature of assessing writing makes it impractical for instructors to…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Natural Language Processing, Legal Education (Professions), Undergraduate Students
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Cother, Genevieve; Cother, Robert F. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
Business Action Learning Tasmania's (BALT) mission is self-reliant industry development, with diverse companies co-operating to improve their profitability, develop their people and grow the local economy. This is achieved through collaborative action learning, with companies working together on projects of vital importance and sharing the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
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Darwin, Stephen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Conventional student-led evaluation is now an orthodox feature of the North American, UK and Australian higher education landscape. Increasingly, it is guiding major institutional decisions around educational quality, academic promotion and more recently institutional funding by government. Yet significant research around student-led evaluation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Promotion, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality
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Cameron, Roslyn – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The use of e-portfolios in recognition of prior learning (RPL) processes in workplace and professional practice contexts has attracted little attention in the literature due to its emergent nature. This study seeks to explore the growing incidence of e-portfolio-based RPL (e-RPL) and professional recognition (e-PR) processes in Australia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Content Analysis, Personnel Evaluation
Thomson, Peter; Mageean, Pauline – 1987
A pilot study assessed the effectiveness of two selection profiles that were designed to evaluate candidates for admission into prevocational hairdressing and automotive mechanics programs. The selection profile, which was developed by the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) National Centre for Research and Development, consisted of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Auto Mechanics
Blandy, Richard; Dockery, Michael; Hawke, Anne; Webster, Elizabeth – 2000
A study was conducted to obtain pilot evidence that could serve as a basis for developing convincing methods for individual Australian companies to use in determining their returns from investment in training. The study attempted to replicate survey results from significant overseas surveys by using information collected on more than 90 Australian…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers