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Walker, Ruth; Mangelsdorf, Ruby; Leahy, Deana; Boyle, Jaqueline – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Young people aged >15 years (Years 11 and 12 students) in Australia are unlikely to receive school-based sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education. The aims of this study were to gather the perspectives of young people regarding their experiences of school-based SRH education and explore what they considered should be the core components…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary School Students
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Clayton, Stephanie – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
In a world where English has achieved global dominance, it is unsurprising that the instrumental value of learning a language other than English (LOTE) for those already fluent in English is increasingly deemed unnecessary. There are significant enrollment declines postcompulsory second language (L2) learning in all English-speaking countries. To…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Elective Courses, Declining Enrollment, High School Students
Bell, Jacky Tianmi Pei; Way, Jennifer; Ginns, Paul – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
With the increased workplace demand for STEM specialists, and the trend in capable students opting out of higher levels of secondary mathematics, the psychological influences on mathematics subject choice are important issues to explore. Expectancy-value theory is used to examine the factors influencing such achievement choices. In the present…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, Success, Mathematics Instruction
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Baak, Melanie; Miller, Emily; Sullivan, Anna; Heugh, Kathleen – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This article considers the ways in which two senior secondary assessment policies that aim to be inclusive are enacted for students from refugee backgrounds. The final years of secondary school in Australia are shaped by high-stakes assessment requirements. Yet there have been policy moves in South Australia to be more inclusive of students by…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Secondary School Students
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Rose Whitau; Latoya Bolton-Black; Helen Ockerby; Lowana Corley – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
The barriers to school attendance that affect young Aboriginal people in Australia are diverse, immense and well documented; however, except for a handful of studies, Aboriginal students' voices receive no platform for policy makers to hear them. In this paper, we present results from yarning circles about barriers to school attendance conducted…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Females, Foreign Countries, Community Attitudes
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Callingham, Maggie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
An enduring educational dilemma is that young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds do not have their needs met in conventional schooling. As a result, many have left school by Year 11. To counter this trend, some schools in disadvantaged areas introduce targeted in-school interventions before Year 11 to meet the needs of their…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 11