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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published July 2003 3134 subscribers Subscribe Now In this issue: School leavers can do well in the workforce Year 8 mathematics students may not be challenged enough New edition of TORCH released ACER UPDATE School leavers can do well in the workforce Many early school leavers progress well in the first few years after leaving school, according to the latest report from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). The findings question the widespread belief that students who leave school before Year 12 struggle to make a successful transition to the workforce. Continue reading » Year 8 mathematics students may not be challenged enough The findings of the TIMSS 1999 Video Study suggests that Australian mathematics teachers may be underestimating the ability of Year 8 students and not challenging them enough in class. Continue reading » New edition of TORCH released ACER recently published the second edition of the popular Tests of Reading Comprehension (TORCH). TORCH is a best selling Australian test used by teachers of students in Year 3 to Year 10 seeking information about the reading comprehension of their students. Continue reading » ACER UPDATE Smith Family Project ACER has been commissioned by the Smith Family to investigate the post-school plans, parental education level, family structure and lifelong learning orientation of young people. This forms part of their research program into understanding how children and young people from financially disadvantaged backgrounds build on the different forms of support provided by the Learning for Life program to overcome the limits of their disadvantage to make a successful transition into the world of work. The duration of the study will be from July 2003 to December 2003. Global Gateways ACER has been asked by education.au limited to update the publication Global Gateways: A Guide to Online Knowledge Networks , which was published by ACER last year. The Guide looks at education gateways/portals and at broad trends within the industry and in e-learning more generally. Enquiries about the guide are welcome. WAMSE English 2003 This project is the next in a series of Western Australia Monitoring Standards in Education projects, building on a collaboration that is over ten-years old. This project has two components: a) Sampling design and selection of students for Reading and Writing in Year 10 and Speaking and Listening in Years 3, 7 and 10. b) Data analysis and reporting of the Speaking and Listening data, including equating to the historical scale. The testing of Speaking and Listening was previously undertaken in 1995 and 1999.
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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published July 2003
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In this issue:

School leavers can do well in the workforce

Many early school leavers progress well in the first few years after leaving school, according to the latest report from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). The findings question the widespread belief that students who leave school before Year 12 struggle to make a successful transition to the workforce.

Year 8 mathematics students may not be challenged enough

The findings of the TIMSS 1999 Video Study suggests that Australian mathematics teachers may be underestimating the ability of Year 8 students and not challenging them enough in class.

New edition of TORCH released

ACER recently published the second edition of the popular Tests of Reading Comprehension (TORCH). TORCH is a best selling Australian test used by teachers of students in Year 3 to Year 10 seeking information about the reading comprehension of their students.

ACER UPDATE

Smith Family Project

ACER has been commissioned by the Smith Family to investigate the post-school plans, parental education level, family structure and lifelong learning orientation of young people. This forms part of their research program into understanding how children and young people from financially disadvantaged backgrounds build on the different forms of support provided by the Learning for Life program to overcome the limits of their disadvantage to make a successful transition into the world of work. The duration of the study will be from July 2003 to December 2003.

Global Gateways

ACER has been asked by education.au limited to update the publication Global Gateways: A Guide to Online Knowledge Networks , which was published by ACER last year. The Guide looks at education gateways/portals and at broad trends within the industry and in e-learning more generally. Enquiries about the guide are welcome.

WAMSE English 2003

This project is the next in a series of Western Australia Monitoring Standards in Education projects, building on a collaboration that is over ten-years old.

This project has two components:

a) Sampling design and selection of students for Reading and Writing in Year 10 and Speaking and Listening in Years 3, 7 and 10.

b) Data analysis and reporting of the Speaking and Listening data, including equating to the historical scale. The testing of Speaking and Listening was previously undertaken in 1995 and 1999.

All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no part of this electronic publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without written permission. Please address any requests to reproduce information to communications@acer.edu.au

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