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Kathryn Richardson; Greta Rollo – Australian Journal of Education, 2024
The National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is intended to assess all Australian students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 to ensure equity and inclusion. This paper explores the extent to which equity and inclusion are achieved for students with disability through NAPLAN reporting. Document analysis of publicly accessible NAPLAN…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Student Evaluation, National Competency Tests
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Seyum Getenet – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
Students' prior achievements in school have significant correlations with their later achievements. Specifically, students' prior numeracy achievement is the most important predictor of later numeracy success. However, the assessment of this predictor across gender and its trend across students' year levels is often overlooked or not adequately…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Lorraine Day; Dianne Siemon; Rosemary Callingham; Rebecca Seah – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
Making connections within and between different aspects of mathematics is recognised as fundamental to learning mathematics with understanding. However, exactly what these connections are and how they serve the goal of learning mathematics is rarely made explicit in curriculum documents with the result that mathematics tends to be presented as a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, Multiplication, Mathematical Logic
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Whitely, Martin; Phillimore, John; Moorin, Rachael – Australian Educational Researcher, 2021
Relative age effects (RAEs), where older children within an age-based group have better academic, sporting, self-concept and mental health outcomes than their younger peers, have been demonstrated in multiple countries. Australian research has found self-concept and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder RAEs, but academic RAEs have not been…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Literacy, Scores, Foreign Countries
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Larsen, Sally A.; Forbes, Alexander Q.; Little, Callie W.; Alaba, Simon H.; Coventry, William L. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
A higher proportion of students are privately educated in Australia, compared with many other nations. In this paper, we tested the assumption that private schools offer better quality education than public schools. We examined differences in student achievement on the National Assessment Programme: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) between public,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Differences
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Sun Jung Joo; Alice Chik; Emilia Djonov – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Anglocentric nation, and migrants, in response, tend to abandon their heritage languages (HL) and shift to English relatively quickly. Korean migrants in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Native Language, Parent Child Relationship
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Beswick, Kim; Watt, Helen M. G.; Granziera, Helena; Geiger, Vince; Fraser, Sharon – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This study examined the extent to which boys fell into clusters comprised of different levels of motivations and costs. In turn, the antecedents of these clusters and associations with engagement and wellbeing outcomes were considered. Based on survey responses from 168 students across Years 5, 7 and 9 from an all-boys' school in Sydney,…
Descriptors: Males, Student Motivation, Grade 5, Grade 7
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Peter Anderson; Owen Forbes; Kerrie Mengersen; Zane M. Diamond – Australian Journal of Education, 2024
Data reporting in the Australian education system produces deficit-based comparisons of academic achievement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Since 2009, data from the National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) have been used by the Australian government to allow it to report on 'Closing the Gap' policy. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Indigenous Populations, Decision Making
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Poncini, Antonella – Journal of Religious Education, 2021
This paper discusses educational insights drawn from a mixed-methods study in Religious Education (RE). The study involved 238 teachers and school leaders, working in 65 Catholic schools in Western Australia (WA). The focus of the study was the educators' perceptions of a large-scale, standardised assessment (LSA) called "The Bishops'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Standardized Tests
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Perales, Francisco; Johnstone, Melissa; Xiang, Ning; Tomaszewski, Wojtek – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Australian children from regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas exhibit lower educational outcomes than their peers in metropolitan areas. The mechanisms driving the comparatively poorer educational outcomes of children in RRR areas, however, are not well understood. This paper proposes and tests two sets of factors that may be responsible for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background, Literacy, National Competency Tests
Getenet, Seyum; Fanshawe, Melissa – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
Considered by many as a source of valuable data and a potential to improve mathematics education, a significant amount of studies have been conducted on The National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test results. This study is a systematic literature review of 86 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2008 and 2017 to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests, Literacy
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Steinmann, Isa; Braeken, Johan; Strietholt, Rolf – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
This study investigates consistent and inconsistent respondents to mixed-worded questionnaire scales in large-scale assessments. Mixed-worded scales contain both positively and negatively worded items and are universally applied in different survey and content areas. Due to the changing wording, these scales require a more careful reading and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Measurement, Test Items, Response Style (Tests)
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Kaur, Tejinder; Blair, David; Moschilla, John; Stannard, Warren; Zadnik, Marjan – Physics Education, 2017
This paper reviews research results obtained from Einsteinian physics programs run by different instructors with Years 6, 9, 10 and 11 students using the models and analogies described in parts 1 and 2. The research aimed to determine whether it is possible to teach Einsteinian physics and to measure the changes in student attitudes to physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Foreign Countries
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Eather, Narelle; Fray, Leanne; Gore, Jennifer M. – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
Sports participation and elite sporting success are fundamental to Australian culture and a prominent source of national pride. As sport is a major part of day-to-day living in Australia, it is not surprising that many young people aspire to careers as sportspersons. While such aspirations are often dismissed as fanciful and unattainable, the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Occupational Aspiration, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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McGrane, Joshua Aaron; Humphry, Stephen Mark; Heldsinger, Sandra – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
National standardized assessment programs have increasingly included extended written performances, amplifying the need for reliable, valid, and efficient methods of assessment. This article examines a two-stage method using comparative judgments and calibrated exemplars as a complement and alternative to existing methods of assessing writing.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation
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