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Damon P. Thomas; Belinda Hopwood; Vesife Hatisaru; David Hicks – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Developing students' reading and numeracy skills remain key goals of contemporary schooling. In Australia, the National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests have assessed these skills since 2008. Previous research found a significant gender gap in favour of females for the NAPLAN writing test, yet no study has examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Marks, Gary N. – Australian Journal of Education, 2014
This paper examines changes in demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in student achievement over the school career, and the extent that these inequalities are accounted for by other influences such as, region and socioeconomic background (where appropriate), school differences and prior achievement. The data analysed are from a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies