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Piscitelli, Barbara – 1988
Noting an increase in demand for school-age child care offerings, with no corresponding establishment of guidelines for program development, this booklet addresses design and evaluation issues in school age child care (SACC) in Australia. The booklet is largely based on two surveys of SACC programs conducted in 1986. The issues discussed in the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Educational Environment, Educational Resources, Elementary Education
Smith, Robert – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1986
Aspects of higher education that differ in Australia and North America are highlighted, including government's role, governance, institutional advancement activities, the president's role, faculty, program design, and students. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty, College Presidents

Handford, B. C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 1993
An Australian study investigated the structure of a master's program in education and examiners' concerns about theses, focusing on the most common criticisms. The study was based on information about 125 part-time students' theses over a 4-year period. The examiners' criticisms raised questions about the thesis supervisor's role. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Education Majors, Foreign Countries, Grading

McLean, Patricia; And Others – Higher Education Research and Development, 1995
A study investigated models of faculty instructional support offered in universities in Victoria (Australia), including support unit location, sources of funding, nature of the support offered (for example, discipline-specific workshops, materials development, accredited courses, and study skills course components), student population receiving…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Faculty Development, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Pearson, Margot; Kayrooz, Carole – International Journal for Academic Development, 2004
This paper describes the development of an instrument--The Reflective Supervisor Questionnaire (RSQ). The RSQ maps the domain of research supervisory practice as a facilitative process involving educational tasks and activities. It is designed to assist research supervisors explore, by means of self-reflection and reflection on feedback from…
Descriptors: Supervision, Questionnaires, Psychometrics, Program Validation
Lloyd, Margaret; Cochrane, Janet – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
Professional development for teachers is often described as a journey. This paper, using the findings from a small-scale study interrogating professional development in ICT, offers the alternate metaphor of an interwoven Celtic knot to explain this phenomenon. It will show how the four key elements identified as being critical to creating the most…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Information Technology, Staff Development, Professional Development
Cairns, Len – 1994
In the current climate of empowerment models, critical research, and deconstructed theory, this discussion raises some questions regarding the concept of "empowerment" and its use as a rubric for course and program design in teacher education. From the review of literature several usages of the term empowerment emerge. Each one is…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Logan, Lloyd; Sachs, Judyth – 1988
Drawing on evidence from literature on professional development of teachers in Australia, this document discusses the essential aspects of inservice education and provides a checklist, with illustrative applications, by which to design and evaluate inservice education proposals. The checklist is based on four sets of assumptions relating to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Check Lists, Educational Philosophy, Educational Planning
Rado, Marta, Ed. – 1974
The conference was held to alert teachers and other interested persons to the complexities of linguistic diversity in Australia, with attention focused on the immigrant child. This report includes the individual conference papers, presented by Marta Rado, Bert Townsend, Michael Clyne, Alan Matheson, and Rede Lar, and the comments of symposium and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Community Involvement, Conference Reports

Nelson, John W. – Studies in Continuing Education, 1988
Discusses mandatory continuing professional education (MCPE) in Australia for the legal and accountancy professions. Considers whether the main concern is continuing education or the certification by professional bodies of their members as competent to practice. Concludes that program designers should recognize that there are educational as well…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Certification, Foreign Countries

Johnston, Sue – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
Discusses the role of educational development units (EDUs), which support improvement of teaching in Australian universities, focusing on the tension between the individual faculty consultation function and the unit's role at an institutional level. Suggests these two levels of action should be considered complementary and necessary. Describes…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Consultation Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
Keogh, Kathleen; Sterling, Leon; Venables, Anne – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
Year-long team projects with external clients provide a well recognized opportunity for students to gain industry experience, whilst being supported and guided by staff to minimize risks. Each group should be supervised to ensure that they have enough direction and confidence to approach a new problem of significant size, without being daunted. A…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Projects, Urban Universities, Independent Study
Queensland Board of Teacher Registration, Brisbane (Australia). – 1990
The Board of Teacher Registration, which is reponsible for the registration of teachers in Queensland, Australia, has established a professional education committee to assist in conferring and collaborating with interested groups on teacher education programs. These guidelines have been produced to assist institutions to develop preservice…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria, College Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Watt, Michael G. – 1988
This evaluation project presents a plan for a program to establish a clearinghouse for exchanging qualitative and quantitative data on instructional materials used in Australian schools. A range of elements necessary to plan a program suited to Australian requirements and conditions was investigated. Focus was on: the program's mission,…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making
Practice in Reading Values: Reflections on Adult Literacy Teaching. Adult Literacy Research Network.
Bradshaw, Delia, Ed. – 1995
These 15 papers cover a wide range of topics and perspectives on the work of Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ALBE) practitioners in Victoria, Australia, in the contemporary ideological and political context. A preface (John Wilson) and introduction (Delia Bradshaw) begin the anthology. The papers are as follows: "...A…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy