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Saeed Salimpour; Russell Tytler; Michael T. Fitzgerald; Urban Eriksson – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
Cosmology presents students with ideas that stimulate their curiosity and brings together various concepts from STEM that call on a variety of reasoning types across multiple representational modes, involving subtleties of spacetime relations, a variety of models and evidence requiring multiple lines of high precision observations. This study…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
Joanne Waugh; Cameron Forrest; Kate Dowling – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
Apprenticeships remain an important source of skilled workers in Australia; however, commencements have not kept pace with the skills demand projected in the previous decade. During that same decade, undergraduate university enrolments grew considerably. In investigating whether young people who would previously have chosen an apprenticeship have…
Descriptors: Universities, Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
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Cardak, Buly A.; Ryan, Chris – Education Economics, 2023
Evidence from around the world shows low university participation among young people from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. A common concern is that disadvantaged young people may be unable to afford higher education costs. Using data on government benefits intended to support students from low income households in high school, we identify…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, College Attendance, Low Income Students, Costs
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Gilmour, Lyn; Klieve, Helen; Li, Minglin – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Australian education policies aspire to meet the unique needs of all students including those from linguistically diverse backgrounds; however, a first step in achieving this aim is clear identification of such students. Many children from previous migrant families and new arrivals to Australia come from homes where at least one parent speaks a…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Policy, Student Diversity
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Peacock, Huw; Prehn, Jacob; Guerzoni, Michael A.; Aitken, Wendy; Andersen, Clair – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
This paper argues that a component of increasing the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youths completing their secondary education is having parents and teachers maintain heightened expectations of these children in achieving this goal. To understand this phenomenon, we investigate the importance of, and discrepancies…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Secondary School Students, High School Graduates
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Forrest, Cameron J.; Swanton, Tasman – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a measure of soft skills suitable for use in a large survey of Australian adolescents. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was conducted with N = 4,704 Australians aged 15-19 over 2 years. Principal components analysis was performed on 14 self-report items, followed by generalised linear mixed…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Soft Skills, Outcomes of Education
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Hatfield, Megan; Ciccarelli, Marina; Falkmer, Torbjörn; Falkmer, Marita – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2018
Adolescents on the autism spectrum often have difficulties with the transition from high school to post-school activities. Despite this, little is known about the transition planning processes for this group. This study explored predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors related to the transition planning processes for adolescents on the…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Success, Adolescents
Orellana, Claudia; Barkatsas, Tasos – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the factorial structure of motivation and perception items from a student survey utilised as part of the Reframing Mathematical Futures II (RMFII) Project. Data was collected in 2017 from 442 students in Years 7 to 10 from various different States across Australia. An exploratory factor analysis identified…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Van Zanden, Brooke; Parker, Philip D.; Guo, Jiesi; Conigrave, James; Seaton, Marjorie – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
We evaluated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) coursework selection by women and men (representative longitudinal sample, 10,370 Australians) in senior high school and university, controlling achievement and expectancy-value variables. A near-zero total effect of gender on high school STEM enrollment reflected pathways…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Course Selection (Students), High School Students
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Rymarz, Richard; Cleary, Anthony – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2016
Students in Catholic schools make up a significant sub group of the Australian population. As such, studies of this group provide valuable information about the religious beliefs and practices of some Australian youth. Many students in Catholic schools express traditional religious views and have relatively high levels of religious behaviours.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Galliott, Natal'ya – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2017
The provision of online career information and guidance is becoming more popular among career counselling practitioners and policy makers targeting the postschool transitions of youth. Internet-based career exploration and guidance systems provide convenience and economy to both individuals confronted with career decision making as well as those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Exploration
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Martin, Andrew J.; Liem, Gregory Arief D. – Geographical Education, 2015
Adaptability is our capacity to respond to change, uncertainty, and variability. We report on recent research investigating how young people's adaptability is related to their environmental awareness, environmental concerns, and pro-environmental attitudes that support the need for policy and action to sustain the environment.
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Climate, Environment, Perception
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Sachisthal, Maien S. M.; Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Dalege, Jonas; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J. – Australian Journal of Education, 2020
Recently, students' interest in science has been conceptualized as a network model: the science interest network model (SINM) in which affective, behavioural and cognitive components interact together; building on science interest being a dynamic relational construct. In the current study, we combine the Australian Programme for International…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 10, Grade 12, High School Students
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McLouglin, Larisa; Spears, Barbara; Taddeo, Carmel – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
A substantial amount of research has documented the negative impact technology has on young people's lives: particularly cyberbullying and the negative mental health outcomes associated with it. Research examining how technology could promote mental health and wellbeing in young people however, needs further investigation. This paper reports on a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Mental Health, Well Being
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Egeberg, Helen; McConney, Andrew – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
Students' views about teaching, learning, and school experiences are important considerations in education. The purpose of this study was to examine students' perceptions of teachers who create and maintain safe and supportive learning environments. To achieve this, a survey was conducted with 360 students to capture students' views on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics, School Safety
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