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Direct linkDove, Jennifer – English in Australia, 2018
This article examines the publicly available English Examination Notes from the New South Wales Higher School Certificate (HSC) Marking Centre, alongside past research on writing development, to understand the summative assessment of writing and the qualities of writing that examiners identified as discriminating between samples of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Writing Tests, Secondary School Students
Download full textBrett, Peter; Thomas, Damon – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This paper explores persuasive writing and what more might be done to help equip young people with the written literacy tools to be effective participants in civic activism. Firstly, we argue from an Australian (and Tasmanian) context that there may be merit in teachers and students re-visiting some of the advice from classical rhetoric around the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Advocacy, Literacy
Heldsinger, Sandra; Humphry, Stephen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
Demands for accountability have seen the implementation of large scale testing programs in Australia and internationally. There is, however, a growing body of evidence to show that externally imposed testing programs do not have a sustained impact on student achievement. It has been argued that teacher assessment is more effective in raising…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Testing, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals)
Griffin, Patrick – 1990
Results of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) battery trials in Australia are reported. The IELTS tests of productive language skills use direct assessment strategies and subjective scoring according to detailed guidelines. The receptive skills tests use indirect assessment strategies and clerical scoring procedures.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interrater Reliability
Australian Council for Educational Research, Victoria. – 1993
This is one of a series of reports that document the formative research that supported the development of the "First Steps" program designed to improve the literacy and numeracy of primary school students in Western Australia, particularly those considered at-risk. The four themes of First Steps (reading, writing, spelling, and oral…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Australian Council for Educational Research, Victoria. – 1993
This is one of a series of reports that document the formative research that supported the development of the "First Steps" program designed to improve the literacy and numeracy of primary school students in Western Australia, particularly those considered at-risk. The four themes of First Steps (reading, writing, spelling, and oral…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary School Students
