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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published October 2007 3134 subscribers Subscribe Now In this issue: ICT use and familiarity in Australia What does it mean to be Australian? ACER UPDATE ICT use and familiarity in Australia A newly published ACER research monograph describes Australian students’ access to and use of computers raising serious equity issues in the process. PISA 2003 Australia: ICT use and familiarity at school and home uses results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 to examine how extensive access to ICT is in schools, homes and other places, how familiar students nearing the end of compulsory education are with ICT and how well they feel they use the technologies that are available. These characteristics are then compared to how well students performed in mathematics in PISA 2003. Continue reading » What does it mean to be Australian? A University of Western Sydney/Australian Council for Educational Research study is investigating what it means to be Australian through the first national identity survey. Professor Rhonda Craven from the Centre for Educational Research at the University of Western Sydney is conducting a nationwide study in conjunction with Dr. Nola Purdie from ACER. Continue reading » ACER UPDATE Australian Education Review 52 Australian Education Review 52: Literacy Education in School: Research perspectives from the past, for the future, by Peter Freebody will be published in November. AER 52 aims to expand our understanding of the nature of literacy at a time when public and private lives have become increasingly literacy-dependent, and literacy demands more complex and sophisticated. This review of the research literature is guided by the view that what passes for effective literacy education will differ depending on language, culture, history and the technologies of communication and knowledge production. Peter Freebody is Professorial Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. Previous editions of Australian Education Review can be downloaded from the ACER website. It's on for Young and Old: 2007 CEET conference The Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) Annual National Conference will be held on Thursday 1 November in Ascot Vale, Melbourne. This year's conference is titled: It’s on for Young and Old: Education and Training Policies for Young and Older Persons. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr Barry McGaw AO, Professor and Director Melbourne Education Research Institute, The University of Melbourne and Peter Dawkins, Secretary, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria. Further information including the conference program and registration details are available from the CEET website. Longitudinal Study of Australian Children research conference ACER is a member of the consortium led by the Australian Institute of Family Studies that is conducting the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC) also known as Growing up in Australia. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Research Conference will be held in Melbourne at The Oaks Hotel on 3-4 December, 2007. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on LSAC data and to highlight its research potential. Attendance at the conference is open to all persons interested in LSAC and longitudinal survey research in general. Further information on the conference is available from the AIFS website.
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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published October 2007
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ICT use and familiarity in Australia

A newly published ACER research monograph describes Australian students’ access to and use of computers raising serious equity issues in the process.

PISA 2003 Australia: ICT use and familiarity at school and home uses results from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 to examine how extensive access to ICT is in schools, homes and other places, how familiar students nearing the end of compulsory education are with ICT and how well they feel they use the technologies that are available. These characteristics are then compared to how well students performed in mathematics in PISA 2003.

What does it mean to be Australian?

ACER UPDATE

Australian Education Review 52

Australian Education Review 52: Literacy Education in School: Research perspectives from the past, for the future, by Peter Freebody will be published in November.

AER 52 aims to expand our understanding of the nature of literacy at a time when public and private lives have become increasingly literacy-dependent, and literacy demands more complex and sophisticated. This review of the research literature is guided by the view that what passes for effective literacy education will differ depending on language, culture, history and the technologies of communication and knowledge production.

Peter Freebody is Professorial Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. Previous editions of Australian Education Review can be downloaded from the ACER website.

It's on for Young and Old: 2007 CEET conference

The Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET) Annual National Conference will be held on Thursday 1 November in Ascot Vale, Melbourne. This year's conference is titled: It’s on for Young and Old: Education and Training Policies for Young and Older Persons. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr Barry McGaw AO, Professor and Director Melbourne Education Research Institute, The University of Melbourne and Peter Dawkins, Secretary, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria.

Further information including the conference program and registration details are available from the CEET website.

Longitudinal Study of Australian Children research conference

ACER is a member of the consortium led by the Australian Institute of Family Studies that is conducting the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC) also known as Growing up in Australia. The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Research Conference will be held in Melbourne at The Oaks Hotel on 3-4 December, 2007. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of research based on LSAC data and to highlight its research potential. Attendance at the conference is open to all persons interested in LSAC and longitudinal survey research in general. Further information on the conference is available from the AIFS website.