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Voss, Richard; Rickards, Tony – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study involves an Australian Western Victorian District High School year nine mixed ability mathematics class learning mathematics using social justice pedagogy. The learning intent of the unit required students to compare their own lifestyles against different families from around the world and use mathematics as a tool to investigate…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
Apprentice and trainee data are reported by the State and Territory Training Authorities to National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on a quarterly basis, starting at the September quarter of 1994. The set of data submitted that quarter is referred to as Collection 1. The sets of data submitted in subsequent quarters are referred…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships, Contract Training
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Treloar, Carla; Laybutt, Becky; Carruthers, Susan – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
Aims: Prevention education has had limited success in reducing transmission of blood borne virus among people who inject drugs. Innovative approaches to prevention education are required. Method: This study used video recordings of injecting episodes and interviews with participants reviewing their video recordings to explore the concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microbiology, Drug Use, Communicable Diseases
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
Apprentice and trainee data are reported by the State and Territory Training Authorities to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on a quarterly basis, starting at the September quarter of 1994. The set of data submitted that quarter is referred to as Collection 1. The sets of data submitted in subsequent quarters are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships, Contract Training
Harvey, Brian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
Data relating to occupations has been collected in the national apprentice and trainee collection since 1994. The coding used conforms to classifications endorsed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The latest version issued from the ABS is the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). The classification…
Descriptors: Classification, Foreign Countries, Databases, Trainees
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This document provides a summary of feedback from the discussion paper for the Review of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS) for vocational education and training (VET) providers (hereafter, the Standard). The discussion paper provided opportunities to gather feedback on a range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Standards, Feedback (Response)
Harvey, Brian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Apprentice and trainee data are reported by the State and Territory Training Authorities to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on a quarterly basis, starting at the September quarter of 1994. The set of data submitted that quarter is referred to as Collection 1. The sets of data submitted in subsequent quarters are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Trainees, Apprenticeships, Data Collection
Nechvoglod, Lisa; Mlotkowski, Peter; Guthrie, Hugh – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The purpose of this report is to provide national data on the technical and further education (TAFE) workforce in 2008 and, where possible, compare this with 2002 data collected for the report "Profiling the national vocational education and training workforce" (NCVER 2004). Currently, there is no regular consistent national collection…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Labor Force
Guthrie, Hugh, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
There has been a continued interest in the numbers and characteristics of those who make up the vocational education and training (VET) sector's own workforce. To address this, the Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) commissioned the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) to undertake three…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Feasibility Studies
Curtin, Penelope, Ed.; Loveder, Phil, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
To mark the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) brought together policy, industry and academic leaders to reflect on the role that research and statistics have played in the development of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector. This publication includes the original…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
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Smith, Peter J.; Sadler-Smith, Eugene; Robertson, Ian; Wakefield, Lyn – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to show that a key aspect of learning and development of individual employees is that of self-directedness. This paper will consider the role of the leader in facilitating workforce development in terms of employees' self-directedness for learning. The research was designed to investigate the views that…
Descriptors: Employees, Foreign Countries, Guidance, Vocational Education
Mackay, Sandra; Burgoyne, Ursula; Warwick, Diane – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2006
This report comprises a literature review whose purpose is to contextualize current language, literacy and numeracy delivery in Australia, in order to provide a framework for consideration of the current and future professional development needs of the language, literacy and numeracy teaching workforce. The information derived from this literature…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Adult Vocational Education, Numeracy, Literacy
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries