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Chittleborough, Gail; Campbell, Coral – Teaching Science, 2012
The prestigious BHP Billiton Science Teacher Awards are awarded annually to one teacher from each state of Australia. The awards recognise and value the time and effort that teachers give to the profession and to students conducting scientific research projects. This paper examines the Science Award scheme to identify the characteristics common to…
Descriptors: Awards, Scientific Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Warren, Elizabeth; Miller, Jodie; Cooper, Thomas J. – PNA, 2013
The "Early Years Generalizing Project" ("EYGP") involves Australian years 1 to 4 (age 5 to 9) students and investigates how they grasp and express generalizations. This paper focuses on data collected from 6 Year 1 students in an exploratory study within a clinical interview setting that required students to identify function…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Generalization, Investigations, Interviews
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Treacy, Kaye; Frid, Sandra; Jacob, Lorraine – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
This research was designed to investigate the conceptualisations and thinking strategies Indigenous Australian students use in counting tasks. Eighteen Aboriginal students, in years 1 to 11 at a remote community school, were interviewed using standard counting tasks and a "counting" task that involved fetching "maku" (witchetty…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, World Views, Computation
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Lee, Scott; McDonough, Andrea; Bird, Jo – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Self-talk has been recognised as an important tool used by children to regulate their thinking and behaviour. Existing studies typically characterise children's self-talk according to broad categories that do not allow for investigation of self-regulatory aspects of children's internalised self-talk. The findings reported in this paper are based…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Self Management
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Dawson, Vaille; Carson, Katherine – Teaching Science, 2013
This study investigated 438 Year 10 students (15 and 16 years old) from Western Australian schools, on their understanding of the greenhouse effect and climate change, and the sources of their information. Results showed that most students have an understanding of how the greenhouse effect works, however, many students merge the processes of the…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Secondary School Students, Investigations
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Wozencroft, Kelly; Campbell, Marilyn; Orel, Alexandria; Kimpton, Melanie; Leong, Eliza – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2015
Little is known about the prevalence of cyberbullying among university students and less about whether they utilise anti-bullying policies. However, failure to report cyberbullying incidents to authorities would lessen the efficacy of these policies. This study investigated the prevalence of cyberbullying among university students and their…
Descriptors: Bullying, Intention, Information Security, Incidence
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MacDonald, Amy; Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2011
This article presents data gathered from an investigation which focused on the experiences children have with measurement in the early years of schooling. The focus of this article is children's understandings of length at this early stage. 32 children aged 4-6 years at an Australian primary school were asked to draw a ruler and describe their…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Young Children, Measurement, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Scott; McDonough, Andrea – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Much research has been conducted on children's self-talk and its use to regulate thinking and behaviour, but research has typically been conducted on audible self-talk when undertaking specific tasks designed by researchers and in laboratory situations. Addressing the need to study self-talk in the classroom and by students of an age when…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Investigations
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Lewis, Steven; Hardy, Ian – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
This paper provides insights into teacher and school-based administrators' responses to policy demands for improved outcomes on high-stakes, standardised literacy and numeracy tests in Australia. Specifically, the research reveals the effects of the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), and associated policies, in the state…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Reputation, Benchmarking, Academic Standards
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Muir, Tracey – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2012
Although number sense is difficult to define, it involves having a good intuition about numbers and their relationships, including the ability to have a "feel" for the relative size of numbers and to make reasonable estimations. Students with good number sense typically recognise the relative magnitude of numbers, appreciate the effect…
Descriptors: Numbers, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Mathematical Concepts
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Hendry, Graham D.; Bell, Amani; Thomson, Kate – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
This article reports on a study of academics who observed their colleagues' teaching at a large research-intensive university in Australia. These academics had completed peer observation as part of a foundations programme designed for those new to teaching or new to the university. Survey responses and interview transcripts form the basis of an…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Interviews, Investigations, College Faculty
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Hérault, Nicolas; Zakirova, Rezida – Education Economics, 2015
This paper contributes to the literature by separately analysing the course enrolment and completion effects of vocational education and training (VET) as well as higher education. Moreover, we investigate the persistence of these wage effects over time while controlling for two potential selection biases. We take advantage of the Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Rate
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Casey, Ashley; Jones, Benjamin – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
This paper explored the use of video technology as an aid to student engagement in physical education. Working in a comprehensive high school in Australia with disaffected students, the study used the New South Wales Quality Teaching Program as a basis for assessing the effectiveness of video technology in enhancing students' engagement in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, High Schools, Physical Education, Investigations
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Riley, Philip; Lewis, Ramon; Wang, Bingxin – Educational Psychology, 2012
Student misbehaviour can provoke aggressive teacher management (e.g. yelling in anger), adversely effecting students' learning and attitudes toward school. To investigate this phenomenon, data were obtained from 75 Chinese (typically Eastern) and 192 Victorian (typically Western) secondary teachers who self-reported aggressive management. Results:…
Descriptors: Discipline, Aggression, Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques
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Stanley, Andrew; Turner, Geraldine – Teaching Science, 2010
Composting can provide both a means of managing organic waste, and a vehicle to teach Science at all levels of schooling. In response to a local organic waste issue a process has been developed to compost waste from an olive oil press and analyse the resultant compost. In this article, the composting process is described in a manner that can be…
Descriptors: Investigations, Vocational Education, Internet, Science Education
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