Australian Journal of Education articles from August 1999

Australian Journal of Education archives from August 1999

Multiple-choice versus short-response items: Differences in omit behaviour.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... The overall rate of omission of items for 28 331 17-year-old Australian students on a high-stakes test of achievement in the common elements or cognitive skills of the senior school curriculum is reported for a subtest in multiple-choice format...

Uses and misuses of student opinion surveys in eight Australian universities.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Student opinion surveys (SOSs) are commonly used in universities to measure student perceptions of teaching performance. Ostensibly their prime purpose is to improve teaching quality. This paper critically examines SOSs in eight Australian...

Effects of single-sex and coeducational secondary schooling on children's academic achievement.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... Using prospective data from an 18-year longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 657 New Zealand children, this paper examines the effects of single-sex and coeducational secondary schooling on children's academic achievement. This analysis...

Literacy, numeracy and non-verbal reasoning skills of South Australian young offenders.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 1999... This study attempts to quantify the basic literacy and numeracy skill levels of detained young offenders in Australia. Subjects were 561 youths in secure care in South Australia. Comparative data were available for 136 local high school...

Is reflective practice compatible with Malay-Islamic values? Some thoughts on teacher education in Brunei Darussalam.
August 1, 1999... This paper critically examines the compatibility of Brunei culture values with the assumptions of reflective practice. Cultural, political and educational institutions in Brunei are thoroughly embedded within a fusion of Malay-Islamic values....

Chronicles of wasted time? Initial teacher education in England: 1960-1999.
August 1, 1999... Introduction Initial teacher education has been a significant part of education policy in Britain since the late 1940s when emergency training was necessary to enable schools to have sufficient staff to teach the children in the immediate...

In the public interest: The challenge for initial teacher education: A critical response to Les Bell.
August 1, 1999... Les Bell makes an important contribution to scholarship on initial teacher education with his chronicle of developments in England from 1960 to 1999. He identifies four phases of policy, the first three of which span periods of roughly a decade...

Rejoinder to Brian Caldwell.
August 1, 1999... I found Brian Caldwell's response to my article both illuminative and informative. He is quite right to point to the differences in the policy context between the United Kingdom and Australia. In particular, he notes the degree to which...

Procedures of power & curriculum change; Foucault and the quest for possibilities in science education.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Procedures of power & curriculum change; Foucault and the quest for possibilities in science education David W. Blades New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 290 pp. Almost half of the text of this book is a story about a Kingdom where children...

School effectiveness for whom: Challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements.(Review)
August 1, 1999... School effectiveness for whom: Challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements Edited by Roger Slee and Gaby Weiner with Sally Tomlinson London: Falmer Press, 1998. 197pp. School effectiveness research in the...