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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia +3 more
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AN EXPLORATORY FRAMEWORK FOR A STUDY ON DESIGNING A RESEARCH FOCUSED ADVANCED INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERING POSTGRADUATES [PDF]
, 2013 Efforts to improve information literacy levels in academic institutions are often focused on undergraduate students, and mostly address the improvement of information retrieval skills.
du Bruyn, Karien
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The multifaceted nature of information literacy: solving the Rubik cube puzzle [PDF]
, 2009 Welcome to the second issue of JIL 2009. The papers in the previous issue (Vol 3, 1, 2009) focused primarily on information literacy education in the context of HE.
Andretta, Susie
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong +7 more
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Plagiarism and attribution: an academic literacies approach? [PDF]
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2012 In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. One aspect of academic writing which students struggle with is incorporating the work and ideas of others, using appropriate attribution conventions.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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READING LITERACY AND METACOGNITIVE STRATEGY FOR PREDICTING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Litera, 2019 The importance of reading literacy is shown in the results of achievement among international countries. Reading literacy has not become a culture for most students. Some students have not used reading strategies to improve their understanding.
Siti Mahmudatul Banat +1 more
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Multimodal literacies and academic publishing: The eTalks
Information Services and Use, 2015 Academic publications and pedagogy have been deeply reconfigured by the emergence of a new kind of knowledge produced by multimodal literacies (text, image and sound together). Academic publishing needs a digital multimedia editing platform, that can be carefully edited and quoted in details, in the same way that printed sources are.
Claire Clivaz +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Information Literacy and International Students: cultural barriers and language preferences [PDF]
, 2008 Even with the prevalence of a global culture, cultural and language barriers continue to present challenges for information professionals. Furthermore, international students are increasingly turning to library instruction classes for discovering library
Lenkart, Joseph
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