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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

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, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
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Do the Largest Firms Grow the Fastest? The Case of U.S. Dairies [PDF]

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/29/07.Livestock Production/Industries, Productivity Analysis,
Melhim, Almuhanad, O'Donoghue, Erik J., Shumway, C. Richard   +2 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The nation-state in its state-istics (Belgium, 1846–1947) [PDF]

, 2017
Anderson, Anderson, Arel, Auslander, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, Billig, Blum, Bracke, Brubaker, Brubaker, Brubaker, Burke, Caestecker, Caestecker, Commission Permanente du Congrès International de Statistique, De Hart, Desrosières, Dubois, Edwards, Foblets, Foucault, Gellner, Haarman, Hacking, Hacking, Hannes, Headrick, Hobsbawn, Holmberg, Hüning, Kennedy, Levitan, Levy, Lory, Louckx, Louckx, Louckx, Malesevic, Matthews, Nadeau, Noiriel, O'Neill, Rokkan, Scott, Servais, Simon, Thorvaldsen, Tihon, Torpey, Urla, Van Velthoven, Vandenbussche, Vanderstraeten, Verdoodt, Vogl, Weil, Wils, Witte, Wright   +69 more
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Unravelling the Referendum: An Analysis of the 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum Outcomes Across Capital Cities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unconventional approaches to mortality estimation [PDF]

Most developing countries do not have complete registration of deaths on which to base mortality estimates. Four broad categories of unconventional methods have been developed to provide mortality estimates in such settings.
Ian Timæus, Kenneth Hill, Yoonjoung Choi   +2 more
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The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide, Linda Harrison, Sandie Wong, Frances Press, Belinda Davis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A fish stinks from the head: Ethnic diversity, segregation, and the collapse of Yugoslavia [PDF]

Demographic analysis clarifies political issues in the collapse of Yugoslavia. In most regions, 1961-1991, ethnic diversity (estimated by informational entropy) increased and segregation (estimated by Theil’s H) decreased.
Carl Mason, E. A. Hammel, Mirjana Stevanovic   +2 more
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