Government Education Portal - Australia

Adding It Up - Helping Children Learn Mathematics  

URL:  http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309069955

Category:  International 

Are the nation's (US) schoolchildren getting the preparation in mathematics they need to live and work in a world that increasingly is driven by technology? Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, a new report from the National Research Council, says that too few children are leaving elementary and middle school with adequate mathematics skills and understanding.

Are students ready for a technology-rich world? What PISA studies tell us  

URL:  http://www.pisa.oecd.org/...351_32236173_35995743_1_1_1_1,00.html

Category:  Statistics  International 

As part of the 2003 survey of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), students were asked about their familiarity with ICT, principally about their computer use. This report examines whether access to computers for students is equitable across countries and students groups; how students use ICT and what their attitudes are towards ICT; the relationship between students' access to and use of ICT and their performance in PISA 2003; and the implication for educational policy.

Boys and Books: Literacy and the Lives of Young Men  

URL:  http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/wilhelm.htm

Category:  Literacy policy and reports  International 

A year-long study of boys' lives and the role of literate activity in those lives yielded several findings that bridged from their passionate interests out of school to the ways in which they conceived and enacted various literate practices. This paper focuses on the informants' interests and how these impacted their reading and writing. The paper argues that four major themes emerge: a need for a sense of control and competence, a challenge that requires an appropriate level of skill, clear goals and feedback, and a focus on the immediate experience.

DfES Primary Schools Whiteboard Expansion project  

URL:  http://partners.becta.org.uk/...on=rh&catcode=_re_rp_02&rid=14422

Category:  International 

The DfES Primary Schools Whiteboard Expansion project (PSWE) provided substantial funding to 21 local authorities in 2003-04 to support the acquisition and use of interactive whiteboards in primary schools. The study of the implementation and impacts of the project found that in certain subjects, the more experience the teacher had of using the interactive whiteboard, the greater the likelihood of positive attainment gains for pupils. Details on the findings of the evaluation are available in the Executive summary, or Full report, available for download.

Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 2002  

URL:  http://www.oecd.org/...5,en_2649_39263238_2735794_1_1_1_1,00.html

Category:  Statistics  International 

Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The OECD education indicators enable countries to see themselves in the light of other countries' performance.

EFA global monitoring report 2008: Education for all by 2015: Will we make it?  

URL:  http://portal.unesco.org/...&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Category:  International 

This is the mid-term assessment by the UNESCO Education for all (EFA) Global Monitoring Report on where the world stands on its commitment to provide a basic education to all children, youth and adults by 2015. Questions addressed include: What education policies and programmes have been successful? What are the main challenges? How much aid is needed? Is aid being properly targeted? The report may be downloaded by chapter. Press releases, summary report, PowerPoint, regional overviews are also available.

English Experiment: An Hour A Day Keeps Illiteracy at Bay  

URL:  http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3219886.html

Category:  International 

A report on Literacy Hour implemented in selected UK schools has found that exposure to the literacy hour significantly improved students' reading and English achievement, with bigger gains for boys than for girls. Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost-effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers' salaries.

Every child matters - apart from the 100,000 out of school  

URL:  http://www.futurelab.org.uk/...ticles/web_articles/Web_Article293

Category:  International 

According to research, 100,000 UK children are missing from normal schooling. Yet despite considerable evidence that online learning can prove extremely effective in motivating and re-engaging young people out of school, existing successful online services are only scratching the surface of the problem.

Futurelab - handbook on learning with handheld technologies  

URL:  http://www.futurelab.org.uk/...ts_articles/handbooks/Handbook198/

Category:  International 

This 2006 handbook from Futurelab offers a guide and resource for anyone thinking of using handheld technologies for teaching and learning. Four case studies show different attempts to tap the potential of handheld technology for learning, while a wider survey of handheld learning projects gives an idea of the range of work going on in the UK, along with contact information.

Global Digest 2003: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World  

URL:  http://www.uis.unesco.org/TEMPLATE/pdf/ged/GED_EN.pdf

Category:  International  Statistics 

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics this comparative framework allows countries to benchmark their progress against neighbouring or similar countries and provides a lens to interpret the outcomes of education reforms from different parts of the world. The digest reports data for the school years 1999/2000 and 2000/2001.