A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.

Adolescents delight in 'Low Culture' Films such as Police Academy. They may be the sort of films adults carefully avoid but they are full of lessons and are ideal teaching material.

Children should learn how to learn. Nowadays we hope that school will teach that, above all else. Here is a case study of successful teaching for meta-learning. A second will appear in set No. 2.

We often 'cheat' by giving marks higher than the quality of the work requires. Our motives are good – often it is to avoid discouraging the 'trier'. But does it pay off?

Marks interfere with each other – your brilliantly fair assessments may be 'put-crook' by other equally just marks. Technical, but as readable as Le Carré, and much more important.

Applying for a new teaching job in New Zealand and Australia used to be pretty cut and dried - the best qualified was selected and appointed by the Education Department. Times change. In New Zealand all appointments are now in the hands of Boards of Trustees. In Victoria the community ...

In December 1986 ACER published a major report on this topic. Rates of participation have climbed a bit since then but the factors which influence who gets what education have not. The report itself has the details, this summary looks at the broad trends.
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Information becomes more meaningful as it is interrelated with what we already know. Learners may be helped to learn how new ideas should be fitted into their mental scaffolding through the use of learning strategies. Certain learning strategies enable learners to reproduce or map their own knowledge structures and insert ...

While females have competed successfully in athIetics for many years, t~e athletic arena ha.s traditionally been the domain of the male. During the early 1970s, female athletics underwent a dramatic revolution. Demands were made for equality in budget, facilities, equipment, coaching, and competitive opportunities to gain a status or position ...

Over the past twelve months, I have been working with a group of Australian teachers in the mid-primary school, and with children of about the age of eight. The study which initiated this work is aimed at reviewing classroom practice in teaching and assessing literacy across the country. It involved ...