Research Projects
Disabilities Definitions Project 2005
Project Director: Dr Nola Purdie
The aim of this MCEETYA-funded project was to develop a definition of disability, and a method of identifying students with disabilities for reporting their educational outcomes on a nationally comparable basis. In Stage 1, the definitions were developed and the data collection methodology was devised (Purdie, Wernert, Ellis & Rollo, 2005). Stage 2, involved:
- the design of data collection instruments;
- the development of procedures to collect and code data within the schools sector;
- testing of procedures with school authorities and a sample of schools, teachers, parents, students or other relevant persons;
- checking the accuracy and viability of the data obtained from these procedures;
- determining the extent to which implementing the methodologies was feasible; and
- recommendations of a preferred approach to be adopted by the MCEETYA Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce (Purdie, Wernert, & Rollo, 2006).
Staff: Nola Purdie, Nicole Wernert, Greta Rolla, Louise Ellis
Funding: MCEETYA
Deliverables: Reports to the MCEETYA Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce