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Telford, Richard D. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
A habitually active environment is a feature of past times, and in stark contrast with that experienced by our children today. Consequently, twenty-first century physical education (PE) assumes a position of great responsibility. This is especially true in primary schools; a premise recently strongly supported by published evidence from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Educational Benefits, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping – Education Economics, 2015
The objective of this paper is to better understand the factors that affect the chances of re-engaging early school leavers in education, with a particular focus on the importance of time out from school (duration dependence) and school-related factors. Using data from three cohorts of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth and duration…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reentry Students, Continuation Students, Dropout Characteristics
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program studies the progress of several groups of young Australians as they move from school into post-secondary education and work. This technical paper contains the frequency tables for the LSAY 2009 cohort Wave 2 (2010) data set.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis
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Prain, Vaughan; Cox, Peter; Deed, Craig; Dorman, Jeffrey; Edwards, Debra; Farrelly, Cathleen; Keeffe, Mary; Lovejoy, Valerie; Mow, Lucy; Sellings, Peter; Waldrip, Bruce; Yager, Zali – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
Personalised learning is now broadly endorsed as a key strategy to improve student curricular engagement and academic attainment, but there is also strong critique of this construct. We review claims made for this approach, as well as concerns about its conceptual coherence and effects on different learner cohorts. Drawing on literature around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement