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Infographic: E-cigarette use among students in Australian schools
Get PDFNew research assesses the nature and consequences of student vaping in primary and secondary schools in Australia. In this infographic, we explore the responses from a national sample of 196 school staff, surveyed about their perceptions of students’ e-cigarette use.https://research.acer.edu.au/teacher_graphics/1174/thumbnail.jp
Schools need support in selecting wellbeing programs
No full textA study of school-based mental health and wellbeing programs has found that many of the programs in use had little or no evidence of effectiveness
A formative evaluation of the program for student representatives in a university discipline panel
Get PDFThe university employs a representation of different sectors in the academic community when dealing with major student conduct violations. Among them is the representative of the students. At the time of the study, the student representatives were qualified students who were recruited and trained to become part of the university discipline case conference panel. Upon successful completion of the training, these students were appointed to be members of a program for the pool of student representatives who sit as part of the university adjudicating body, which makes decisions for the university student discipline cases. Terminally, the researcher wanted to improve the engagement and retention of these trained students in the program. Thus, the purpose of conducting this study was to explore the experiences of the students in handling their first case of student conduct violation as part of the university discipline panel. This utilized qualitative methodology in conducting a formative evaluation of the program. Students were asked to submit written reflections on the first student conduct case that they handled. Of the 19 student representatives, eight participated in this study. Line-by-line analysis was done to develop the themes. The findings of this study were four themes that surfaced from the students’ experiences: competence, decision-making, vicarious learning, and emotions. This study supports previous research on the importance of supportive adult relationships, which positively impact young people’s engagement, as well as the involvement of students in the disciplinary process.https://research.acer.edu.au/ical/1006/thumbnail.jp
Validation of the Child and Adult Social Support Scale (CASSS) which measures social support in the Indonesian version
Get PDFSocial support has an important role, so that students in online learning can reduce the various problems they face. Social support here comes from parents, teachers, classmates, close friends, and the school itself as an institution. Based on this, it is necessary to do research related to social support to get an overview of the support from whom students need in online learning. Furthermore, this can be used as input to intervene in the problems faced by students. To conduct this research, it is necessary to have a measuring tool to conduct social support research. One of the comprehensive measuring tools in measuring social support is the Child and Adult Social Support Scale (CASSS) which has been made by (Malecki & Demaray, 2002). This study aims to: (1) adapt the Indonesian version of the CASSS measuring instrument, (2) test the psychometric properties of the measuring instrument that has been adapted in Indonesian. The results show that the CASSS measuring instrument that has been adapted shows that the loading factor value of all items is above 0.7. Based on this, it can be said that all items (60 items) in the CASSS scale which are the observed variables have good validity on the latent variables on each dimension of the Social support construct. Meanwhile, each dimension also has a good factor load on the Social Support construct. This shows that all CASSS items have good validity values so that they can be used for further research. The results of the reliability calculation show that all subscales of the CASSS Scale have a reliability value above 0.9 using the alpha technique.https://research.acer.edu.au/ical/1007/thumbnail.jp
School Improvement Tool Elaborations: Student engagement and wellbeing
Get PDFWhat happens in schools can have a great and lasting impact on the future wellbeing and outcomes for young people. Schools therefore play an important role in supporting students’ engagement and wellbeing. These elaborations are intended to support the work of schools by providing further specificity about the practices in each of the nine domains of the School Improvement Tool (previously National School Improvement Tool) that optimise student engagement and wellbeing and, in turn, impact on achievement. Commissioned by the Queensland Department of Education, the elaborations provide an evidence-based framework to guide practice by teachers, school leaders and education systems in ensuring equitable outcomes for all students, particularly those most at-risk of disengagement, or for whom there are wellbeing concerns. The elaborations have been developed directly from the research evidence on student engagement and wellbeing by the Australian Council for Educational Research and refined in consultation with key stakeholders
Building a world-class learning system
Get PDFThis study sought to understand how five jurisdictions – British Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong and South Korea, which have all performed unusually well in international achievement surveys over the past two decades – are approaching school education and its transformation. Geoff Masters describes key aspects of the learning systems these jurisdictions have established, comments on how they are now redesigning their learning systems for the future, and discusses insights into what may be required for any jurisdiction to perform well on measures of the kind currently used in international surveys
School leadership that cultivates collective efficacy
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Report Highlights: Evaluation of Australia’s investment in teacher development in Lao PDR: Interim report 1
Get PDFThe Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is undertaking significant primary education reforms, supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through its flagship Basic Education Quality and Access in Laos program (BEQUAL). The Australian Government has commissioned a study to investigate how the BEQUAL program is making a difference to improving teaching quality and student learning outcomes. This research is part of a multi-year study series undertaken by DFAT’s Education Analytics Service to investigate teacher and learning development initiatives in three countries: Lao PDR, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu
Implications for Teacher Education in a Time of Rapid Reform: Lessons from Myanmar
No full textOver previous years, Myanmar has made significant efforts to improve the quality and equity of its education system. Rapid educational reform is now underway across the Union, in the form of revisions to schooling structures, curricula and assessment processes, monitoring of school improvement mechanisms, and teacher education programs, underpinned by the introduction of teacher standards. Yet the success of standards-based reform in Myanmar is predicated on the mode of enactment, and the ways in which policy is interpreted within the education profession. Thus, in recognition of the role teachers play during major and important cycles of teaching reform, this chapter highlights the potential of standards-based education reforms in improving teacher quality in Myanmar, while also considering the key challenges policy actors and educators now face. In a time of great uncertainty for the country of Myanmar, this chapter also considers ways that comparable systems can position themselves as partners in educational reform, supporting schools and teachers as they begin to use and embed school improvement mechanisms in broader practice
Reversing Australia’s declining achievement a shared problem
No full textData shows Australia’s declining performance on international student assessments is reflected in all of its school sectors