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Fitzgerald, Michael; McKinnon, David H.; Danaia, Lena; Deehan, James – Research in Science Education, 2016
In this paper, we present the results from a study of the impact on students involved in a large-scale inquiry-based astronomical high school education intervention in Australia. Students in this intervention were led through an educational design allowing them to undertake an investigative approach to understanding the lifecycle of stars more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Science
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McGrath, Dianne; Murphy, Daniel – Accounting Education, 2016
This paper reports on a project which is designed to increase the participation of high school students in accounting work experience placements. The focus of the paper is on an Australian-based project which overcomes the identified barriers to offering high school accounting work experience placements with a resultant increase in the number and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Accounting, Career Choice
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Humphrey, Sally L. – English in Australia, 2015
In this article, I report on the first stage of a whole school literacy project," Embedding Literacies in the KLAs" (ELK), which aims to support multilingual learners to access the literacies they need for high stakes curriculum learning. As it is "quality teaching" that has been found to have the greatest impact on student…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Educational Quality
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Wheelahan, Leesa – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a "first generation" qualifications framework that was established in 1995. Its purpose was to create "a comprehensive, nationally consistent yet flexible framework for all qualifications in post-compulsory education and training." It encompasses all post-compulsory…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries