Chris Freeman Copyright (c) 2012 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman Recent documents in Chris Freeman en-us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:30:45 PST 3600 Australian teachers and the learning environment : an analysis of teacher response to TALIS 2008 : final report http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/6 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/6 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:42:21 PST The Department of Education, Science and Training commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to undertake the Australian component of the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). TALIS is one of the first international surveys to focus on the learning environment and the working conditions of teachers in schools. TALIS was conducted in 24 OECD and OECD-partner countries in 2007 and 2008, though internationally comparable results were reported for only 23 countries due to requisite sampling standards for publication. This first survey is part of a planned programme of surveys which will examine various levels of schooling over time and provide participating countries with an opportunity to measure various policy issues associated with teaching and learning management. This report provides detailed analyses of teachers’ self-reported practices, activities, beliefs and attitudes; teacher appraisal systems; impacts of school policies on the teaching and learning environment; and pathways to effective school leadership.

]]> Chris Freeman et al. ICT in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in Year 8 in Australia: report from the IEA Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES) survey http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/5 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/5 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:54:48 PST The IEA Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES) is an international comparative research program studying the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in education. Its central focus is on understanding how ICT affects the way teaching and learning takes place in schools. In many educational systems there is a desire to use ICT to support changes in teaching and learning and policies have been implemented to promote the use of ICT by equipping schools with computers and network connections, training teachers in the use of ICT and providing digital resources. Although there is a growing body of research on the educational effects of ICT, much of it is based on intensive studies of small samples. SITES, however, surveyed large representative samples of schools using questionnaires with established psychometric properties so that variations within, and among, countries in the links between ICT and pedagogy could be investigated. The SITES project was conducted internationally in 22 countries during 2006 and then implemented in Australia as a comparison study in 2007.

]]> John Ainley et al. Lunchtime Talkback - Indigenous Students and Large Scale Assessments such as NAPLAN: How do we make sure we get an accurate picture of what Indigenous students know? http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/4 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/4 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:54:47 PST Chris Freeman et al. National assessment program : ICT literacy years 6 & 10 report 2008 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/3 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/3 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:40:21 PDT This report presents the findings from the National Assessment Program –ICT literacy assessment conducted in 2008 under the auspices of the national council of education ministers, the Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA). National samples of Year 6 and Year 10 students were assessed to determine their levels of confidence, creativity and skill development in the use of information and communication technologies.

This report compares the results of Australian school students by state and territory and student sub-groups, and provides details of their achievement against an ICT literacy scale. It also enables the most recent achievements of students to be compared against those from the first national assessment of ICT literacy conducted in 2005. A survey of student access to, and use of, computers was conducted as part of the ICT literacy assessment and it provides an interesting insight into how students are using their access to new technologies.

]]> John Ainley et al. National assessment program : ICT literacy years 6 & 10 report 2005 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/2 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/2 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:01:29 PDT Australia's national goals for schooling assert that when students leave school they should be: confident, creative and productive users of new technologies, particularly information and communication technologies, and understand the impact of those technologies on society. The Australian National Assessment Program includes the systematic assessment of the extent to which this goal is being achieved through triennial sample surveys of students in Years 6 and 10. This report is based on the assessment of ICT literacy conducted in October 2005. It describes the development of a computer-based tool for assessing ICT literacy among school students and the application of that tool with a nationally representative sample of approximately 7,400 students from Years 6 and 10 in nearly 520 Australian schools. The report describes the development, validation and refinement of a progress map that identifies a progression of ICT literacy. It describes the ICT literacy levels of Australian school students overall and for particular groups of students.

]]> John Ainley et al. First national literacy and numeracy tests introduced http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/1 http://works.bepress.com/chris_freeman/1 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:09:06 PDT More than one million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 participated in the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in May 2008. This article describes ACER’s contribution to NAPLAN through test development, data analysis and marking.

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