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McCluskey, Kerryn – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Australia is a multicultural country. In the ten years to November 2007, there were 647,000 migrants who entered Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008). Of these migrants 76% were born in countries other than those identified by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, 2008) as main English speaking countries (the United Kingdom, The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Communities of Practice, Teaching (Occupation), Speech Communication
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Hardcastle, Adam – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2009
The National Review of School Music Education has systematically documented the variations in quality and accessibility of school music education in Australia. Rural and remote schools were found to be particularly vulnerable to relatively poorer quality and accessibility. These findings were not new; they echoed similar observations made by…
Descriptors: Music Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Access to Education
Brooks, Louise; Awodeyi Tomi – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This paper investigates large differences in employer satisfaction with vocational education and training (VET) between 2005 and 2007. Employer satisfaction was measured using the Survey of Employer Use and Views of the VET System, which was first conducted in 2005 and repeated in 2007. It measures employer satisfaction with vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Investigations, Participant Satisfaction, Employer Attitudes
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Garvis, Susanne – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2009
Significant research has been conducted into the positive effects of arts education on social and intellectual development of students across the ages of 10-15 years. Teacher competence for teaching the arts however does not appear to be as positive. A worldwide trend suggests pre-service teachers exhibit low confidence and content knowledge for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Investigations, Self Efficacy, Cognitive Processes
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Fyffe, Chris; McCubbery, Jeffrey; Reid, Katharine J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Background: Active support (AS) has been shown to increase the amount of time that residents in shared residential settings are involved in purposeful activities. The organisational processes required to implement AS have been less well researched. Method: Staff in community houses answered questions about the occurrence of organisational…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Investigations, Operations Research, Residential Care
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Tan, Kelvin H. K. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
In the literature, student self-assessment as a practice and as a goal in higher education is generally emphasized for academics. This paper reports a study that investigates what academics emphasize in their experiences of student self-assessment. The investigation focused on the different ways academics described their understanding and practise…
Descriptors: Investigations, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Lifelong Learning, Program Effectiveness
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Read, John; Knoch, Ute – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
As a result of investigations showing that communication problems can be a significant contributing factor to major aviation accidents, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has established a set of Language Proficiency Requirements. All pilots and air traffic controllers engaged in international aviation must be certified by their…
Descriptors: Accidents, Communication Problems, Evaluators, Investigations
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Noble, Karen – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
Given the complexity and range of choice of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, as well as the diversity of family situations, research eliciting parent conceptions of their choices of early childhood services is both necessary and timely. This paper brings to light some important issues in relation to knowledge and understanding…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Parents, Parent Attitudes
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Richards, Debbie; Fassbender, Eric; Bilgin, Ayse; Thompson, William Forde – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
Empirical evidence is needed to corroborate the intuitions of gamers and game developers in understanding the benefits of Immersive Virtual Worlds (IVWs) as a learning environment and the role that music plays within these environments. We report an investigation to determine if background music of the genre typically found in computer-based…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music, Investigations, Foreign Countries
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de Raadt, Michael – Computer Science Education, 2007
This Australasian focused review compares a number of recent studies that have identified difficulties encountered by novices while learning programming and problem solving. These studies have shown that novices are not performing at expected levels and many novices have only a fragile knowledge of programming, which may prevent them from learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Computer Science Education, Literature Reviews
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Hudson, Peter; Hudson, Sue – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
Australia continues to face teaching shortages in rural schools. Indeed, preservice teachers may be reluctant to apply for rural teaching positions, particularly as most have had no rural teaching experiences. What may motivate non-rural preservice teachers to seek employment in rural schools? This study investigates 17 preservice teachers' first…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools, Teaching Experience
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Mildenhall, Paula; Swan, Paul; Northcote, Maria; Marshall, Linda – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2008
As part of the project titled "Hands-On Heads-On: The Effective Use of Manipulatives Both Virtual and Physical" being undertaken at Edith Cowan University, there was an investigation into the use of virtual manipulatives and the interactive whiteboard (IWB). Virtual manipulatives may be defined as a virtual representation of a physical…
Descriptors: Investigations, Mathematical Concepts, Manipulative Materials, Educational Technology
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Judd, Terry; Kennedy, Gregor – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
Audit trail analysis can provide valuable insights to researchers and evaluators interested in comparing and contrasting designers' expectations of use and students' actual patterns of use of educational technology environments (ETEs). Sequence analysis techniques are particularly effective but have been neglected to some extent because of real…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Investigations, Recreational Facilities, Educational Technology
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Darby, Naomi – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2007
The idea of using mathematical research in the classroom to collect real data has been spoken about within education for many years. The question is, why should teachers bother with real data from their students' worlds and how do they actually put it into practice in the classroom? When using the mathematical research strategy for collecting,…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Teaching Methods, Classroom Research, Mathematics
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Gillespie, E.; Allen-Craig, Sandy – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2009
This paper presents the findings of a recent preliminary study into the effects of a wilderness therapy program on the resilience of male youth at-risk. The study focused on participants who completed a wilderness therapy program at Typo Station. The residential program involved a five-week stay at the Typo Station property in north east Victoria,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Therapy, Investigations, Youth Opportunities
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