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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

Quantitative Literacy on the Web of Science, 2 – Mining the Health Numeracy Literature for Assessment Items

open access: yesNumeracy, 2009
A topic search of the Web of Science (WoS) database using the term “numeracy” produced a bibliography of 293 articles, reviews and editorial commentaries (Oct 2008).
H.L. Vacher, Todd Chavez
doaj   +1 more source

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

SkillSum: basic skills screening with personalised, computer-generated feedback [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We report on our experiences in developing and evaluating a system that provided formative assessment of basic skills and automatically generated personalised feedback reports for 16-19 year-old users.
Reiter, Ehud, Williams, Sandra
core   +3 more sources

Minimum Competency Assessment (Akm): An Effort To Photograph Numeracy

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics and Mathematics Education, 2021
The National Literacy Movement (GLN) refers to the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) states that literacy numeracy is one of the basic literacy that must be mastered in the 21st century. However, PISA results show that Indonesian students have low literacy numeracy skills. The Ministry of Education followed up to replace
Irma Rachmah Hidayah   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Does accuracy and confidence in working memory performance relate to academic achievement in NAPLAN, the Australian national curriculum assessment?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2018
Objective The aim of this study was to examine how accuracy and confidence in working memory performance relates to academic achievement as assessed in the Australian national curriculum assessment (National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy ...
Kerry A. Chalmers, Emily E. Freeman
doaj   +1 more source

Requirements for the provision of initial teacher training courses in Wales : literacy and numeracy issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
"The Welsh Government is consulting on proposals to introduce a replacement for the Criteria for Initial Teacher Training Accreditation by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales 2006, as amended.

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Summative Assessment of Literacy and Numeracy (V1)

open access: yes, 2022
This paper was prepared for the Department of Education in the context of a review of Ireland's National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. It looks ahead to what might be done in a new Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Strategy.
openaire   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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