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Direct linkKearney, Judith; Glen, Matthew – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigated the education pathways of 464 young people. We were interested in the effects of New Zealand citizenship and Pacific ethnicity on pathways so compared findings for three groups residing in Australia: Pacific youth with New Zealand citizenship, Pacific youth with Australian citizenship, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Citizenship, Ethnicity
Gore, Jennifer; Holmes, Kathryn; Smith, Max; Southgate, Erica; Albright, Jim – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Recent Australian government targets for higher education participation have produced a flurry of activity focused on raising the aspirations of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. In this paper we test two key assumptions underpinning much of this activity: that students from low-SES backgrounds hold lower career…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Occupational Aspiration, Demography, Predictor Variables
Edwards, Daniel; Coates, Hamish; Friedman, Tim – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
Australian higher education is currently entering a new phase of growth. Within the remit of this expansion is an express commitment to widen participation in higher education among under-represented groups--in particular those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This paper argues that one key mechanism for achieving this goal should be the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Socioeconomic Status, Aptitude Tests
Martin, Andrew J.; Way, Jennifer; Bobis, Janette; Anderson, Judy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
This study of 1,601 students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 5-8, each student measured twice, 1 year apart) from 200 classrooms in 44 schools sought to identify factors explaining gains and declines in mathematics engagement at key transition points. In multilevel regression modeling, findings showed that compared with Grade 6 students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Education, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Achievement
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
Download full textMarks, Gary N.; Fleming, Nicole; Long, Michael; McMillan, Julie – 2000
This study examined participation in year 12 and higher education in Australia. It updates a previous report by including findings from the 1995 cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth for 1998 and 1999. Combining these data with those from four previous cohorts shows changes in the patterns of and influences on participation over the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Cohort Analysis, College Students, Dropouts
