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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published May 2010 3134 subscribers Subscribe Now In this issue: University students lacking staff contact Turning up and tuning in key to Indigenous education ACER UPDATE University students lacking staff contact The largest ever survey of current higher education students in Australia and New Zealand has revealed worrying findings about interactions between students and their teachers. The 2009 Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) involved over 30,000 students from 35 higher education institutions. A public report on the results was released by ACER on 17 May. AUSSE reports on the time and effort students devote to educationally purposeful activities and on students’ perceptions of other aspects of their university experience including interactions with university staff. Continue reading » Turning up and tuning in key to Indigenous education Indigenous students are performing well below the Australian average in international tests and student attitudes, behaviours and backgrounds could provide some of the keys to understanding this, according to a report launched on 19 May by ACER. The report is based on findings from all three completed cycles of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is managed nationally by ACER. Continue reading » ACER UPDATE New research database on distance and online education The Cunningham Library is now producing a new research database on distance and online education. This searchable web database contains details of 6,167 books, articles, conference papers and reports from publishers in Australia and overseas and is updated monthly. Material in the database is drawn from the Australian Education Index, also produced by Cunningham Library, with additional material sourced from a variety of international organisations and publishers. The database contributes to the Distance Education Hub, a research consortium between the University of New England, Charles Sturt University, Central Queensland University, the University of Southern Queensland, and Massey University in New Zealand. Please visit http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/textbase/drde/drde.html For enquiries please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published May 2010
3134 subscribers
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In this issue:

University students lacking staff contact
Turning up and tuning in key to Indigenous education
ACER UPDATE

University students lacking staff contact

The largest ever survey of current higher education students in Australia and New Zealand has revealed worrying findings about interactions between students and their teachers.

The 2009 Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) involved over 30,000 students from 35 higher education institutions. A public report on the results was released by ACER on 17 May. AUSSE reports on the time and effort students devote to educationally purposeful activities and on students’ perceptions of other aspects of their university experience including interactions with university staff.

Turning up and tuning in key to Indigenous education

Indigenous students are performing well below the Australian average in international tests and student attitudes, behaviours and backgrounds could provide some of the keys to understanding this, according to a report launched on 19 May by ACER.

The report is based on findings from all three completed cycles of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is managed nationally by ACER.

ACER UPDATE

New research database on distance and online education

The Cunningham Library is now producing a new research database on distance and online education. This searchable web database contains details of 6,167 books, articles, conference papers and reports from publishers in Australia and overseas and is updated monthly. Material in the database is drawn from the Australian Education Index, also produced by Cunningham Library, with additional material sourced from a variety of international organisations and publishers.

The database contributes to the Distance Education Hub, a research consortium between the University of New England, Charles Sturt University, Central Queensland University, the University of Southern Queensland, and Massey University in New Zealand. Please visit http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/textbase/drde/drde.html For enquiries please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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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