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Direct linkSmith, Erica; Hodge, Steven; Yasukawa, Keiko – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
In Australia, the question of the level and nature of qualifications for vocational education and training (VET) teachers is a highly contested and political topic. VET teachers are only required to have a pre-university, certificate level pedagogical qualification, the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. They possess substantially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Education
Smith, Erica – International Journal of Training Research, 2014
The topic of quality rankings of academic journals generated a great deal of debate and opinion in Australia during their time at the forefront of interest in the mid-to-late 2000s. However, there has been little empirical research to inform the debate. This paper reports on and analyses the journal ranking experiences of one small…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Career Education, Foreign Countries
Bennett, Dawn; Smith, Erica; Bennett, Sue; Chan, Philip; Bobis, Janette; Harrison, Neil; Seddon, Terri; Shore, Sue – Australian Educational Researcher, 2013
Educational research has long been the subject of lively and agitated debate, not least because of its diversity. Ranging in scope from academic development and broad-scale policy research through to student engagement and discipline-specific research, it includes methods of traditional academic inquiry and investigations and also less traditional…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Online Surveys, Teacher Researchers
Smith, Erica; Grace, Lauri – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
This paper uses data from a recent national project on workforce development for vocational education and training (VET) practitioners in the service skills sector to examine the issue of teaching qualifications for VET practitioners in Australia. Data on the level of qualifications is limited and incomplete (Mlotkowski & Guthrie, 2010) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Policy
Download full textSmith, Andy; Smith, Erica – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2006
This paper reports the results of a research project investigating the use that Distance Education (DE) students at university make of the learning materials that are supplied to them. The research is based on a survey of 998 DE students enrolled in ten undergraduate subjects spread across all five Faculties at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys
Smith, Erica; Green, Annette – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2005
This report describes and analyses how the work activities undertaken by students while at school affect their post-school pathways into and between work and study. Increasingly, students are involved with workplaces while still at school. The three major ways in which this is happening (in order of extent of engagement) are through work…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Work Experience, Young Adults, Vocational Education
