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How university management decision making affects academic educators’ wellbeing, decision making and ability to change 大学管理决策如何影响学术教育工作者的福祉、决策和变革能力

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00760-x

Jill Bamforth, Kristina Turner, Elizabeth Levin, Bin Wu, Jeff Waters, Sean Gallagher

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Grant chaser and revenue raiser: public school principals and the limitations of philanthropic funding 追逐资助和增加收入：公立学校校长与慈善资助的局限性

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00750-z

Emma E. Rowe, Elisa Di Gregorio

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Schools and the city: workforce distribution, housing and city schools 学校与城市：劳动力分布、住房与城市学校

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00758-5

Scott Eacott, Catherine Gilbert, Katrina MacDonald

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Developing quality community connections through a regional preservice teacher placement program 通过地区职前教师安置计划发展优质社区联系

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00754-9

Steve Murphy, Daniela Acquaro, Lindy Baxter, Rebecca Miles-Keogh, Hernan Cuervo, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs

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Assessing the interplay: teacher efficacy, compassion fatigue, and educator well-being in Australia 评估相互作用：澳大利亚教师的效能、同情疲劳和教育工作者的福祉

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00755-8

Glenys Oberg, Stephanie Macmahon, Annemaree Carroll

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Action research communities as a whole-of-school teaching improvement initiative: a multi-method multi-informant study 作为全校教学改进举措的行动研究社区：多方法多信息研究

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00756-7

David Lynch, Hoi Vo, Tony Yeigh, Tina Marcoionni, Jake Madden, David Turner

{"title":"Action research communities as a whole-of-school teaching improvement initiative: a multi-method multi-informant study","authors":"David Lynch, Hoi Vo, Tony Yeigh, Tina Marcoionni, Jake Madden, David Turner","doi":"10.1007/s13384-024-00756-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00756-7","url":null,"abstract":"Professional learning communities (PLCs) actioned through collaborative action research (CAR) have been found in the literature to be beneficial for both teachers and students. However, previous studies mainly examined teachers’ perceived effectiveness of CAR-based PLCs, as well as identified steps and elements involved in such PLCs, either self-initiated by teachers themselves or by university researchers in a school-university partnership model. Few have focused on a whole-of-school teaching improvement initiative based entirely on PLCs through CAR. In this study, we provide preliminary evaluation of a 3-year whole-of-school teaching improvement initiative (the SETaRI), based on PLCs through CAR at a regional primary school in NSW, Australia. Analysis of students’ various assessment measures (N = 206), teachers’ survey (N = 44), observation of professional learning team meetings, and various types of student artefacts revealed that students showed general and consistent improvement in both their reading and maths performance over time following the implementation of the SETaRI model, with greater progressive learning effects for those whose initial learning outcomes were lower than their peers. The findings also highlighted data-driven decision making, teacher collaboration, and school leadership as potent elements underlying teachers’ positive attitudes toward the implementation of the model as well as student learning outcomes and improvement. This study provides useful implications for a school improvement agenda focused on action research communities.","PeriodicalId":501129,"journal":{"name":"The Australian Educational Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Policy makers as experts and teachers in need of reform: a critique of ‘evidence-based’ reforms of initial teacher education in Australia 作为专家的决策者和需要改革的教师：对澳大利亚初始师范教育 "循证 "改革的批判

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00757-6

Andrew Deuchar

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Equity, curriculum form and state differences in Australian senior secondary education 澳大利亚高中教育的公平、课程形式和州际差异

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00752-x

Kate O’Connor, Philip Roberts, Elisa Di Gregorio

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Reflections in waterholes: Reconceptualising young Indigenous Australian success 水潭中的反思：重新认识澳大利亚土著青年的成功

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00747-8

Matilda Harry, Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page, Rebekah Grace

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Supporting students with English as an additional language during emergency remote teaching: a Q methodology study 在紧急远程教学中为英语作为额外语言的学生提供支持：Q 方法研究

The Australian Educational Researcher Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00753-w

Gary Bonar, Yvette Slaughter, Anne Keary, Tanya Davies

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