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Christine Preston; Yaela Golumbic; Ciara Kenneally; Thant Sin Phway; Larissa Braz Sousa; John Martin; Peter Rutledge; Alice Motion – Teaching Science, 2023
This article reports on initial findings from "Learning By Doing," a citizen science research project funded by a NSW DOE Strategic Research Grant. Our study aimed to understand the process of integrating citizen science into schools, the perceived outcomes and impacts for students, and ways to evaluate citizen science projects. In this…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Teacher Attitudes, Student Participation
Developmental Evaluation of the HIPPY Age 3 Program for Socially Disadvantaged Families in Australia
Amy Graham; Jan Matthews; Catherine Wade – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
Home-based parenting interventions foster positive parent-child relationships and parenting skills that reduce risks to child outcomes associated with social disadvantage. This article extends evidence about the value of one such program -- the Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) -- through qualitative examination of a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Child Rearing, Disadvantaged
Kilpatrick, Sue; Burns, Gemma; Barnes, Robin Katersky; Kerrison, Marcel; Fischer, Sarah – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2020
The research, focused on parents with children in years 5-10 in three low-socioeconomic rural and regional communities, drew on an understanding of educational aspiration as culturally and socio-spatially embedded to develop practical strategies for parents to engage with their children as they made education and career pathways choices. It draws…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Parents, Economically Disadvantaged, Career Pathways
Browne, Geoffrey R.; Bender, Helena; Bradley, James; Pang, Alexis – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLED), a university-curated database of sustainability experiences to augment formal student learning. Its purpose was to encourage students to participate in experiential learning, to facilitate students' critical…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Databases, Experiential Learning, Self Efficacy
Gutierrez, Amanda; Lowe, Kevin; Guenther, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Improving Indigenous students' literacy is a major priority area for the Australian Government, receiving significant funding to address below benchmark English literacy standardised test results. Despite this, recent benchmark tests suggest Indigenous students continue to achieve well below the national average. This systematic review discusses…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Benchmarking, Literacy Education, Literacy
Bennett, Anna – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018
This article draws on findings from a national review of the evaluation of access and equity initiatives across Australian higher education to argue that utilising responsive mixed methods focused on the values of participants enables crucial understanding of what matters to the people involved. Based on the evidence collected, a "what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
Testing and Measuring the Impact of Character Education on the Learning Environment and Its Outcomes
Lovat, Terence; Dally, Kerry – Journal of Character Education, 2018
The article aims to contextualize and summarize essential findings from the 268-page Australian Government Report titled, "Project to Test and Measure the Impact of Values Education on Student Effects and School Ambience." The project was one of a number of values education projects funded by the Government from 2003 to 2010 under the…
Descriptors: Values Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Outcomes of Education
Main, Katherine; Pendergast, Donna – Professional Development in Education, 2017
An evaluation of the effectiveness of a large-scale professional development (PD) programme delivered to 258 schools in Queensland, Australia is presented. Formal evaluations were conducted at two stages during the programme using a tool developed from Desimone's five core features of effective PD. Descriptive statistics of 38 questions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity; Sachs, Judyth – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional, and international partners. In PACE projects, students work toward meeting the partner's organizational goals while they develop their capabilities, learn through the process of engagement,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Community Development, Foreign Countries
Nash, Rose; Stupans, Ieva; Chalmers, Leanne; Brown, Natalie – Journal of Learning Design, 2016
The Traffic Light Report (TLR) project is an educational intervention designed for pharmacy undergraduates. This paper reports on analysis of TLR data specifically focusing on its potential as an innovative tool which combines Miller's pyramid, technology and student voice to examine a curriculum for Assurance of Learning (AoL). In 2014, educators…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacy, Undergraduate Students
Absalom, Matthew; Morgan, Anne-Marie; Scrimgeour, Andrew – Babel, 2015
2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the National Languages conference of the AFMLTA. The conference was held in Melbourne with a welcome reception at the Melbourne Immigration Museum and conference dinner in the iconic Eureka Tower. Almost 300 delegates attended the conference from around Australia, as well as a contingent from New Zealand and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Language Teachers, Professional Associations
Brown, Robert; Jeanneret, Neryl – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2015
Many studies have highlighted the capacity of community arts programs to re-engage those young people considered at-risk of disconnection from future education and/or employment. "Evolution" is an artist-guided visual arts program established for young people challenged by mental health and social issues that aims to foster re-engagement…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Community Programs, Visual Arts, Mental Health Programs
Heggart, Keith – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
Previous scholarship has outlined possible models of civics education but have neglected to provide frameworks for evaluation of the way such educative programs contribute to ongoing active citizenship amongst the participants. This paper explicates a framework that can be used to analyse how effectively programs are developing active citizenship…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Citizenship, Civics, Citizen Participation
Gale, Trevor – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Social inclusion in Australian higher education was high on the agenda of the recent Rudd/Gillard Australian Government. This paper offers an assessment of that agenda, particularly the extent to which it worked in favour of under-represented groups. It argues that the Government's widening and expansion policies and its equity and aspiration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Student Participation
Maldoni, Anna M.; Lear, Emmaline L. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Over the last 10 years the higher education sector has undergone a myriad of changes both in student demographics and the influx of international students. With these changes, concerns about the ability of students to meet the English language and academic demands of tertiary study have come to the forefront. This paper reports on a project of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Programs, Educational Change, Team Teaching