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Dynamics of the Australian youth labour market : the 1975 cohort, 1996-2000 23 Aug 2013 | 11:54 am
Over the last three decades, the transition from full-time education to full-time work has been characterised as problematic for a significant proportion of young adults. It is often argued that a hig...
Final report : the Deadly Awards Nomination and Voting System Review and Research Project 23 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) was commissioned in late 2010 by Vibe Australia to investigate the current nomination and voting system for the Deadly Awards and identify ways i...
Working together : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice. 23 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
This book on the mental health and wellbeing principles and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, is designed for practitioners and mental health workers as well as students train...
Measure for measure : a review of outcomes of school education in Australia 15 Aug 2013 | 04:34 am
There have been a plethora of research reports providing information about the achievements of students in Australian schools and how those achievements differ among jurisdictions and among groups of ...
The estimation of polytomous item response models with many dimensions 8 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Identification conditions and an improved estimation method for a D-dimensional mixed coefficients multinomial logit model are discussed. This model is a generalisation of the Adams and Wilson (1997) ...
Accuracy of Rasch model item parameter estimation 8 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
This study used Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the item parameter recovery from ACER ConQuest 3 software (Adams, Wu, & Wilson, 2012) for the dichotomous Rasch model. The authors’ primary focus wa...
Creating an Effective School for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students 7 Aug 2013 | 08:14 am
In Australia, the Collegial Snapshot Process (CSS) has been a culturally safe, engaging and empowering way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students and their Parents and Carers to share thei...
