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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

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Building literacy capabilities for comprehension in the curriculum: A framework for teachers

open access: yes, 2015
Primary and secondary classroom teachers are charged with the responsibility of ensuring they cater for literacy in all subject or learning areas.
Kitson, Lisbeth
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

DATA LITERACY IS STATISTICAL LITERACY

open access: yesSTATISTICS EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2017
Past definitions of statistical literacy should be updated in order to account for the greatly amplified role that data now play in our lives. Experience working with high-school students in an innovative data science curriculum has shown that teaching statistical literacy, augmented by data literacy, can begin early.
openaire   +2 more sources

Oral language and its critical role in reading, learning through language and disciplinary literacy in the middle years

open access: yes
While oral language (OL) has figured prominently in practice-oriented discussions of early literacy, particularly in the context of initial reading instruction, it has been less prominent in discussions of curriculum and pedagogy in the middle years ...
Green, Clarence, McLachlan, Claire
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

News Literacy JRN 101

open access: yes, 2014
Excerpt of President Obama's commencement speech given at the University of Michigan, May 2010 where he discusses news, information, importance of fact v. opinion.How Do You Know if You're Getting the Truth From the News Media?
Stony Brook University. School of Journalism. Center for News Literacy.
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Computer games - pushing at the boundaries of literacy

open access: yes, 2010
The need to expand traditional, print-based versions of literacy to also incorporate attention to multimodal forms of text and literacy in the English curriculum is now well established. Much can be learnt about students and their literacy practices from
Beavis, Catherine, O'Mara, Joanne
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Data Literacy for Citizenship: Print & Play Daliopoly

open access: yes, 2023
Este documento es un print&play del juego 'Daliopoly', diseñado dentro del proyecto Erasmus + DALI: Data Literacy for Citizenship. Al imprimir este documento tienes todo lo necesario para jugar a dicho juego y fomentar la alfabetización en ...
DALI: Data Literacy for Citizenship   +2 more
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