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Week 28: On track in the post-school transition
Keeping track of school leavers’ outcomes helps policy makers to provide for learners to be engaged in challenging learning opportunities appropriate to their readiness and needs.
What happens when students leave school, before or after successfully completing Year 12? That’s a question driving ACER’s On Track longitudinal research on post-school transition by Sheldon (Sam) Rothman for Victoria’s Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
The purpose of tracking students longitudinally through the post-school transition, explains Sam, a Principal Research Fellow in the Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation program of ACER’s Educational Monitoring and Research Division, is to provide broad data on student outcomes after the completion of schooling, but also more specifically to provide assistance to school leavers who are experiencing a difficult transition so that educators in post-schooling institutions can address their needs.
Sam works closely on On Track with Teaching, Learning and Transitions colleagues Senior Research Fellow Justin Brown, who manages the longitudinal component, and Research Director Phil McKenzie, while Catherine Underwood, a Research Fellow in the Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation research program, helps manage the data files and produce the annual reports.
‘The post-school transition is not completed in the first six months after leaving school, so the longitudinal component of the Victorian On Track study, for example, follows a sample of students for an additional three years,’ Sam explains.
‘While many school leavers follow a “simple” path, a longitudinal study allows us to look more carefully at those whose initial pathways are more complicated. For example, our tracking shows that most young people who were initially unemployed or in part-time work in 2008 have now settled into full-time work or some form of education and training.’
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