Reports
Food, Fibre and the Future : Report on surveys of students’ and teachers’ knowledge and understanding of primary industries (with Sarah Buckley), National Surveys (2011)
Primary Industry plays a vital role in Australian’s economy and society, but the gap between...
Gambling and young people in Australia (with Nola Purdie, Gabrielle Matters, Martin Murphy, Clare Ozolins, and Pam Millwood), Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation (2011)
This study was undertaken by the Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd (ACER) and presents...
The On Track Survey 2010 : The Destinations of School Leavers in Victoria : statewide report (with Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, Gary N. Marks Dr., Phil McKenzie, and Catherine Underwood), Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2011)
Findings presented in this report are based on the On Track telephone survey of 36,179...
Challenges for Australian education : results from PISA 2009 : the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy (with Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, Marina Nicholas, and Sarah Buckley), OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA Australia) (2010)
Focusing on reading literacy as the major domain for the PISA 2009 assessment, this national...
Highlights from the full Australian Report: challenges for Australian education: results from PISA 2009 (with Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, Marina Nicholas, and Sarah Buckley), OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA Australia) (2010)
PISA in Brief summarises the results from the PISA 2009 assessment of students’ reading, mathematical...
Articles
Success against the odds, Research Developments (2010)
Kylie Hillman presents a research project that found low performance in mathematics did not hinder...
School careers advice well received by students, Research Developments (2009)
An ACER study of young Australians’ perceptions of the career advice received in secondary school...
The Migration of Non-Metropolitan Youth Towards the Cities, Research Developments (2007)
Rural communities in Australia have long felt concern about the rate at which young people...
Transition to further education: the first-year experience (with Julie McMillan), Professional Educator (2005)
Look at tertiary study in terms of academic failure and attrition, and research clearly identifies...
Gender differences in education and labour market outcomes (with Sheldon Rothman), Learning Matters (2004)
Despite numerous changes in policy and legislation, issues of gender equity in the Australian education...
Conference Papers and Presentations
Growth in receptive vocabulary among 4 to 8 year-olds: Using growth modelling with the LSAC K cohort (with Siek Toon Khoo and Clare Ozolins), Paper presented at the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) Conference (2009)
Success despite the odds? Outcomes for low-performing students in Australia (with Sue Thomson), PISA Research Conference (2009)
X, Y and Z: Three Decades of Education, Employment and Social Outcomes of Australian Youth (with Sheldon Rothman), 2008 – Touching the Future: Building Skills for Life and Work (2008)
This paper focuses on three decades of findings from Australian longitudinal studies of adolescents and...
Career advice and career plans: Sources, satisfaction, and realisation (with Sheldon Rothman, Julie McMillan, and David D. Curtis), Paper presented at VET in Context, the 2008 conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) (2008)
The literature on career decision-making suggests that students make their decisions based on the degree...