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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

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, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

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, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes, Diana Sousa, Siew Fung Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grassroots Numeracy [PDF]

, 2016
The readers and authors of papers in Numeracy compose a multidisciplinary grassroots interest group that is defining and illustrating the meaning, content, and scope of quantitative literacy (QL) and how it intersects with educational goals and practice.
Vacher, H. L., H.L. Vacher, H.L. Vacher
core   +1 more source

Teachers’ well-being, home learning environment and children learning outcomes in emergencies: a case of Afghanistan

Cogent Education
Teachers’ well-being and a conducive home learning environment play a pivotal role in improving children learning outcomes, but little is known about this in a humanitarian setting. This article assesses the role of teachers’ well-being and home learning
Conrad Murendo, Zahra Azemi, Than Zaw Oo, Silvia M. Arlini, Men Chanbona, Rachel Fermin, Nishtha Shrestha, Sayed Maher Sadat, Edwin Kimani, Kasundu Bosco   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing and validating a measure of parental knowledge about early math development

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Parents’ knowledge about the math skills that most preschool-aged children can develop might be an important component of the Home Math Environment (HME) as it might shape their math beliefs and efforts to support their preschoolers’ math development ...
Ashli-Ann Douglas, Camille Msall, Bethany Rittle-Johnson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Tony Loughland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors

, 2016
Low numeracy in doctors poses serious risks to patient safety because inaccurate drug dose calculation may lead to under-treatment or overdose, while erroneous data interpretation affects medical decision making.
Lucie M. Byrne-Davis, Anne A. Taylor, Byrne-Davis, Lucie M, Taylor, Anne A   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Adaptation and Validation of the Home Numeracy Environment Questionnaire in an Argentine Population

European Journal of Education and Psychology
The Home Numeracy Environment (HNE) plays a critical role in children’s early mathematical development. Nevertheless, culturally adapted instruments to assess HNE remain scarce in Latin America, limiting cross-cultural research and local interventions.
Sofia Soledad Ortiz, Juan Pablo Barreyro, Alejandra Daniela Calero, Brenda Gómez Muiño, Débora Inés Burin, Jesica Formoso   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Educational philosophising in the Everyday: UK immigrant mothers navigating identity and praxis during COVID‐19

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Debates surrounding motherhood have long centred on women's roles as carers. Although motherhood is now more widely recognised within feminist scholarship, it often remains conceptually separate from identities associated with formal educational discourse.
Lavinia Kamphausen, Aliya Khalid, Nadia Uddin‐Talukder, Uzma Dayan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source