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Scoular, Claire; Care, Esther – Educational Assessment, 2019
Recent educational and psychological research has highlighted shifting workplace requirements and change required to equip the emerging workforce with skills for the 21st century. The emergence of these highlights the issues, and drives the importance, of new methods of assessment. This study addresses some of the issues by describing a scoring…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Problem Solving, Scoring, 21st Century Skills
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Sawatzki, Carly; Brown, Jill; Zmood, Simone – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2022
The proposed revisions to the "Australian Curriculum: Mathematics" highlight the importance of learning to mathematise, problem-solve and reason in real world contexts, including financial contexts. Through the Economics + Maths = Financial Capability research project, the authors have been imagining fresh ideas for connecting the…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), National Curriculum, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
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Rogers, Mary E.; Creed, Peter A.; Searle, Judy; Nicholls, Serena L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Medical trainees are at risk of psychological distress due to training workload demands. Dropping out of medicine has hidden and real costs to both the public and the individual. Using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, this study assessed differences in stress and coping strategies between those serious and not serious about dropping out…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Medical Students, Coping, Medical Education
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Rickwood, D. J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1995
The help-seeking behavior of 715 Australian late adolescents with personal problems was assessed 5 times over 12 months. The help-seeking behavior of these adolescents did not appear to alleviate their psychological distress effectively. Focusing on problems by talking about them may have intensified rather than relieved their problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries
Catterall, Calvin D., Ed. – 1976
The booklet, part of a series which examines actual and potential contributions of psychology toward solving problems of the world's schools, contains articles written by school psychologists from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. The document was compiled in response to a need for international…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education