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Exploring students' feelings of place

- Webb, Susan Christine, Knight, Elizabeth, Black, Rosalyn, Roy, Reshmi

Authors: Webb, Susan Christine , Knight, Elizabeth , Black, Rosalyn , Roy, Reshmi
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education Vol. 31, no. 3 (2021), p. 43-60
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Description: Geographically unequal distribution of opportunities for participation in post-school education particularly affects young people in rural and regional areas of Australia. This study contends that the perception of opportunities by young people from low socio-economic status backgrounds should be considered alongside the distribution of opportunities, in order to understand how place and social mobility are intertwined in the reproduction of inequality. Drawing on data about post-school transitions in peri-urban and rural areas of Australia, our study shows that understandings of a sense of belonging to a rural place of origin and the attraction of nature and the outdoors are intrinsic to understanding young people's educational mobilities. Despite a growing interest in the more emotional aspects of mobility, including the concept of 'emotional topographies' and issues of dislocation and belonging, the spatial contingency of student identities and their effects on participation are only just beginning to be manifested in an ontological shift in scholarship. Educational mobilities and the sense of place have been tested by the impact of the 2020 global pandemic. By deepening understanding of how students from rural areas frame their educational choices, this study offers a progression in thinking about dislocation and belonging in the interactions of post-school transitions. Arguably, a broader emotional geographical sense of belonging is needed to understand the experiences of rural students and their mobility or immobility. This broader conceptualisation may indicate new research directions for urban research.

Part-time work of high school students and impact on educational outcomes

- Patton, Wendy, Smith, Erica

Authors: Patton, Wendy , Smith, Erica
Date: 2009
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian Journal of Guidance & Counselling Vol. 19, no. 2 (2009), p. 216-224
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Description: While increasing numbers of young high school students engage in part-time work, there is no consensus about its impact on educational outcomes. Indeed, this field has had a dearth of research. This paper presents a review of recent research, primarily from Australia and the United States, although it is acknowledged that there are considerable contextual differences. Suggestions for school counsellors to harness students' experiences to assist in educational and career decision-making are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Australian Journal of Guidance & Counselling is the property of Australian Academic Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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Using secondary students’ views about influences on their spiritual well being to inform pastoral care

- Fisher, John

Authors: Fisher, John
Date: 2006
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Children's Spirituality Vol. 11, no. 3 (2006), p. 347-356
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Description: Spiritual well-being is reflected in the quality of relationships that each person has in up to four different domains, namely with self, with others, with the environment and/or with God. This study investigated how secondary students perceived relationships with family, friends, school and church community (including God) impacted on their spiritual well-being. This paper reports the views of 1002 secondary school students aged from 12 to 18 years old in Catholic, Christian community and other independent schools in Victoria, Australia. ANOVA and multiple regression analyses of students’ responses on the Quality Of Life Influences Survey developed in this study, and the Spiritual Health And Life Orientation Measure, a spiritual well-being questionnaire for secondary students, revealed significant differences in perceptions students held about influences on their spiritual well-being. A case study illustrates how these instruments can be used to inform pastoral care of young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Developing a spiritual health and life-orientation measure for secondary school students

- Fisher, John

Authors: Fisher, John
Date: 1999
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.

Bridging to mathematical modelling: Vietnamese students' response to different levels of authenticity in contextualized tasks

- Tran, Dung, Nguyen, Duyen, Nguyen, An, Nguyen, Giang-Nguyen, Ta, Phuong

Authors: Tran, Dung , Nguyen, Duyen , Nguyen, An , Nguyen, Giang-Nguyen , Ta, Phuong
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology Vol. 51, no. 6 (2020), p. 893-912
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Description: To address the upcoming reform curriculum initiative following competency-based learning in Vietnam, this study examines how variations of a contextualized task allow students to experience the mathematical modelling process. We explore how Grade 10 students respond to tasks with different levels of authenticity when they first attempt such tasks. Adapting the Theory of Authentic Task Situations, we designed variations of the Goat Cage task and implemented them with six small groups of students. Results showed that the modelling processes that the students progressed through differed in mathematical models used and real-world considerations, with diverse approaches when solving the more-authentic variation. Not all phases of the modelling process were observed explicitly when they engaged in the tasks. Students showed a positive disposition towards tasks with more authentic contextual information. The study suggests ways to adapt contextualized tasks to make them more authentic, which allows students to experience a holistic modelling process.

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Developing university students’ statistical reasoning via a research-informed course

- Huynh, Binh, Tran, Dung, Nguyen, An, Nguyen, Nga

Authors: Huynh, Binh , Tran, Dung , Nguyen, An , Nguyen, Nga
Date: 2024
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Vietnam Journal of Education Vol. 8, no. 1 (2024), p. 69-79
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Description: Statistical reasoning (SR) is an essential skill for students in studying statistics. This study aims to develop SR for university students through an appropriately designed course in statistics. Employing a quasi-experimental design, this study evaluated students' SR changes as they participated in a research-informed statistics course, designed to integrate statistical reasoning. The results showed that the course helps students improve their SR, with their scores increased by 23% from the pre-test to the post-test. Specifically, the SR scores on measures of central tendency of the experimental class increased by 8% while the SR scores on the measures of variability of the experimental class increased by 34%. Suggestions about curriculum and teaching are included, such as offering opportunities for statistical investigations with real data going deeper into building and understanding formulas and training lecturers to teach statistics using approaches that are different from traditional teaching methods, as well as evaluating students' statistical learning with reliable tools.

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