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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published April 2004 3134 subscribers Subscribe Now In this issue: Supporting English literacy and numeracy learning for Indigenous students in the early years Examining post-school plans and aspirations What parents want ACER UPDATE Supporting English literacy and numeracy learning for Indigenous students in the early years Indigenous Australian children begin school with similar levels of literacy and numeracy to their non-Indigenous classmates but fall behind as they move through the early years, new ACER research shows. A longitudinal study conducted by ACER has been monitoring the growth in English literacy and numeracy achievement of a group of 152 Indigenous students in 13 schools through the early years of primary school. A report detailing the findings of the first two years of the study was released on 21 April. Continue reading » Examining post-school plans and aspirations A study completed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for the Smith Family has found that family wealth has a weak affect on students' post-school plans. Gender, ability and vocational orientation are the most important factors influencing post-school plans. The study, Post-School Plans: aspirations, expectations and implementation forms part of the Smith Family's research program into understanding how children and young people from low income families overcome financial disadvantage in making a successful transition from school into the world of work. Continue reading » What parents want ACER's Research Director of Early Childhood Education, Alison Elliott recently contributed the following opinion article to the Australian newspaper regarding the reasons that some families choose independent schools for their children. Continue reading » ACER UPDATE International School Bangkok International School Bangkok has engaged ACER as consultants to help the school in developing curriculum, assessment and pedagogy of writing. In the first phase of the project ACER has critiqued and refined the existing curriculum design. The second phase will be devoted to preparing resources aligned with the revised framework for use across the school. Pre-service teacher education project MCEETYA (Ministerial Council for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) has awarded ACER's Teaching and Leadership Research Program a contract to map pre-service teacher education courses in Australia. This project strengthens our research expertise in this area, with a similar Victorian project already underway for the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published April 2004
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In this issue:

Supporting English literacy and numeracy learning for Indigenous students in the early years

Indigenous Australian children begin school with similar levels of literacy and numeracy to their non-Indigenous classmates but fall behind as they move through the early years, new ACER research shows.

A longitudinal study conducted by ACER has been monitoring the growth in English literacy and numeracy achievement of a group of 152 Indigenous students in 13 schools through the early years of primary school. A report detailing the findings of the first two years of the study was released on 21 April.

Examining post-school plans and aspirations

A study completed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for the Smith Family has found that family wealth has a weak affect on students' post-school plans. Gender, ability and vocational orientation are the most important factors influencing post-school plans.

The study, Post-School Plans: aspirations, expectations and implementation forms part of the Smith Family's research program into understanding how children and young people from low income families overcome financial disadvantage in making a successful transition from school into the world of work.

What parents want

ACER's Research Director of Early Childhood Education, Alison Elliott recently contributed the following opinion article to the Australian newspaper regarding the reasons that some families choose independent schools for their children.

ACER UPDATE

International School Bangkok

International School Bangkok has engaged ACER as consultants to help the school in developing curriculum, assessment and pedagogy of writing. In the first phase of the project ACER has critiqued and refined the existing curriculum design. The second phase will be devoted to preparing resources aligned with the revised framework for use across the school.

Pre-service teacher education project

MCEETYA (Ministerial Council for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) has awarded ACER's Teaching and Leadership Research Program a contract to map pre-service teacher education courses in Australia. This project strengthens our research expertise in this area, with a similar Victorian project already underway for the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

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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