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Direct linkSciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) dataset. Previous research has found that school composition predicts a range of schooling outcomes. A…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Foreign Countries, Error of Measurement, Literacy
Reichert, Frank – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Students from less fortunate families and in less advantaged schools often perform worse than their more advantaged peers. The Australian Labor Government (2007-2013) initiated the "Building the Education Revolution" to establish a more effective and just education system, reaching a meaningful consensus on the development of active and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Educational Resources, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
Kazmierska-Kowalewska, Kalina M.; Okely, Anthony D.; Siraj, Iram; Archer, Carol; Jones, Rachel A. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Movement Environment Rating Scale (MOVERS), using data from 13 early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Test-retest reliability was calculated using ICCs, percentage agreement and weighted Kappa. Internal consistency was examined using Cronbach's alpha. To…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Getenet, Seyum; Beswick, Kim – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
In this study, we examine children's National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) achievement predictors, which may enable or limit their numeracy performance and assess the relative importance of the predictor variables. Our data source was the NAPLAN numeracy results of Queensland schools from 2014 to 2017. Years 3 and 5…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests
McCahey, Angela; Allen, Kelly-Ann; Arslan, Gokmen – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
School belonging is an important component of adolescent well-being, yet little is known about its relationship with adolescents' Information Communication Technology (ICT) use. This study aimed to examine the relationship between school belonging and various ICT use types in Australian adolescents. The sample was drawn from 14,530 Australian…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Communication (Thought Transfer), Sense of Community
Baumann, Chris; Harvey, Marina – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to build on the foundational theories of personality and motivation to explore the role of competitiveness and of ethnicity in relation to student academic performance. Survey data from 328 students across four sites (Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong and Korea) provided self-rated responses to items measuring…
Descriptors: Competition, Personality, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
De Nobile, John – Educational Psychology, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between aspects of organisational communication and dimensions of job satisfaction and general organisational commitment. Participants were 358 staff members from 35 government primary schools in the state of Western Australia, who completed a survey comprising the Organisational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Communication, Job Satisfaction, Elementary Schools
Eather, Narelle; Fray, Leanne; Gore, Jennifer M. – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
Sports participation and elite sporting success are fundamental to Australian culture and a prominent source of national pride. As sport is a major part of day-to-day living in Australia, it is not surprising that many young people aspire to careers as sportspersons. While such aspirations are often dismissed as fanciful and unattainable, the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Occupational Aspiration, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Nathan, N.; Wiggers, J.; Wyse, R.; Williams, C. M.; Sutherland, R.; Yoong, S. L.; Lecathelinais, C.; Wolfenden, L. – Health Education Research, 2017
Implementation of vegetable and fruit programs in schools is less than optimal. This study aimed to identify, using a theoretical framework, factors associated with implementation of a school vegetable and fruit program; that provides a time in class for children to consume a piece of vegetable or fruit they have brought from home. Three hundred…
Descriptors: Food, Telephone Surveys, Health Behavior, Foreign Countries
Bullen, Jonathan; Roberts, Lynne; Hoffman, Julie – Australian Educational Researcher, 2017
Australian undergraduate programs are implementing curriculum aimed at better preparing graduates to work in culturally diverse settings, but there remains uncertainty over the role of extant student attitudes towards Indigenous Australians. To begin to address this, we obtained baseline data on student attitudes upon entry to tertiary education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Curriculum Implementation, Student Attitudes
Chien, Chi-Wen; Rodger, Sylvia; Copley, Jodie – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
Children with developmental disabilities are at risk for limited participation in everyday activities. This study investigated factors that hindered or facilitated participation in 58 children with moderate-to-severe developmental disabilities who attended special schools. The parents completed surveys on their children's participation,…
Descriptors: Moderate Intellectual Disability, Severe Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Forrest, James; Dandy, Justine – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Much is known about immigrants' majority language proficiency in the first (immigrant) generation. Less is understood of differences in linguistic shift compared with heritage language retention in subsequent generations. Focusing on Sydney, Australia's largest "EthniCity," we build on Clyne and Kipp's (1999. "Pluricentric Languages…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Tozer, Meryan; Khawaja, Nigar G.; Schweitzer, Robert – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2018
The present study examined protective factors associated with the wellbeing of 93 youth from a refugee background resettled in Brisbane, Australia. Wellbeing was defined as an absence of psychological distress and the presence of subjective wellbeing. Students at Milpera State High School, a special English language school, completed a battery of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Refugees, Youth
Ee, Mong Shan; Yeoh, William; Boo, Yee Ling; Boulter, Terry – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Time control plays a critical role within the online mastery learning (OML) approach. This paper examines the two commonly implemented mastery learning strategies--personalised system of instructions and learning for mastery (LFM)--by focusing on what occurs when there is an instructional time constraint. Using a large data set from a postgraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Time Management, Electronic Learning
Brooker, Abi; Corrin, Linda; de Barba, Paula; Lodge, Jason; Kennedy, Gregor – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Recent scholarly discussions about massive open online courses (MOOCs) highlight pedagogical and practical issues that separate MOOCs from other learning settings, especially how theories of learning translate to MOOC students' motivation, participation, and performance. What is missing from these discussions is the purpose of the MOOC. We report…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Predictor Variables
