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Arts education access in high school schedulingMauragis, Rasa Emilija, n/a January 1993 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of curriculum policy
regarding eight key learning areas in ACT government high schools with particular
analysis concerning the Arts.
The study sought to identify the discrepance between school curriculum policy and
timetable allocation to the mandated curriculum areas.
Analysis of time allocation to learning areas as defined by the timetable allocation of
time was considered to be an appropriate method of examining curriculum practice in
ACT government high schools. Fifteen ACT government high school timetables were
analysed in conjunction with school curriculum documentation. Mandatory time
requirements for the eight key learning areas was identified. Timetable structures were
analysed in terms of allocation of time to key learning areas, pastoral care, assemblies,
activities and electives. Formulae were developed in order to make comparisons
between schools possible.
Results indicated that disparities existed between time allocation to key learning areas
within key learning areas and mandatory time (i.e. minimum guaranteed access time)
requirements for key learning areas.
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Multicultural education and A.C.T. government high schools : an investigative studyMazza, Rose, n/a January 1987 (has links)
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Pupil teacher and counsellor perceptions of the school counsellor : implications for counselling services and secondary schools in the Australian Capital TerritoryMcGlynn, Margaret Jean, n/a January 1979 (has links)
Research has suggested that the identity of the school counsellor
is inevitably determined by what they do or are perceived to do,
rather than by what they would like to do or ought to do.
Thus the perception held by students, counsellors and teachers are
of paramount importance in attempting to define the role and function
of the counsellors.
This study attempts, by a descriptive approach to determine what
their perceptions are, and in addition to determine what effect,
if any, the administration of a school can have on the perception
held by the counsellor of that school.
A questionnaire was distributed to a randomly selected sample
(N-223) of students from a secondary school within the ACT, whose
total population was 750. The results were shown in their-raw
score form, percentage form and in years and sex.
The same method was used to ascertain the perceptions held by
stuff and administration of this school, and results were shown
in raw score and percentage form. Similarly counsellors' perception
of their role and function were obtained, although counsellors
themselves were able to comment upon the design of the questionnaire
before the final format was given to them.
The results tend to show that counsellors within the ACT system
were similar to those in the USA, in that their identity was
determined by what they were perceived to do.
The second part of the study used a causal - comparative approach
to determine the effect of school administration on counsellors.
The results of this showed that this body can potentially exert an
extremely powerful influence upon the role and function of
counsellors.
The implications of the study for the ACT system are great. If
the counsellors are to be used to their maximum, greater support
must be given to them, and teachers at all levels should undergo
some training to aid them in understanding and thus utilizing the
counsellors to their fullest potential.
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Attitudes to euthanasia amongst health care professionals in the Australian Capital Territory : issues towards a policyMenzies, Allan R., n/a January 1991 (has links)
Three groups of health care professionals were canvassed for
their views on euthanasia - student nurses, practising
nurses and doctors. The aim of the research was to make a
possible contribution to a formalised health policy on this
issue for the ACT.
The following forms of euthanasia were covered by the
research:
(i) voluntary active euthanasia:
(ii) voluntary passive euthanasia:
(iii) involuntary active euthanasia:
(iv) involuntary passive euthanasia.
Passive forms of euthanasia were found to be the most
acceptable.
Voluntary forms of euthanasia were not found, in general, to
be more approved of than involuntary forms of euthanasia.
However, active forms of euthanasia were much less
acceptable than passive forms.
In order to adapt the research findings to a methodology for
policy use. Allison's models (1971) of public policy
development were modified into a single model. This provided
an application of the research results in such a way as to
allow for the development of a possible formalised policy on
euthanasia, and practical applications.
The conclusions drawn from the research findings and the
subsequent recommendations are supportive of law reform and
the implementation of a new policy on the issue of
euthanasia.
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Creative thinking abilities and an industrial design courseMiddleton, Howard Eric, n/a January 1983 (has links)
The aim of this field study is to investigate
the relationship between creative thinking abilities
and an Industrial Design course.
The report contains an analysis of the
background to current teaching methods in Industrial
Arts within the Australian Capital Territory.
A link between design education and
creativity is investigated, as well as the nature of
creativity and its relationship to the learning process and
teaching strategies employed in design education.
The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking was used
in this study and the subjects were grade nine students
in selected high schools in the Australian Capital
Territory.
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A descriptive analysis and evaluation of Australian Capital Territory Institute of Technical and Further Education's marketing strategyMontgomery, Thomas, n/a January 1993 (has links)
The research in this thesis attempts to study the ACT
Institute of Technical and Further Education's marketing
strategy, and it addresses a particular situation at a
specific time.
The research was undertaken in two studies. The first,through
the use of a marketing audit, was focused on three key
marketing areas within the Institute to indicate its overall
marketing strategy. The second study involved a questionnaire
to ascertain the effectiveness awareness of the Institute's
advertising.
The researcher first presents an historical review and an
ordering of the historical aspects to illuminate the past and
the current marketing posture of the ACT Institute of
Technical and Further Education (ACTITAFE). The data are
presented through four distinct historical periods from the
establishment of the organisation in 1921 to 1991.
Although technical and further education in the ACT has a
history in excess of sixty years, data revealed that there is
no clear evidence of a formal marketing strategy.
The marketing audit interviews collected information from a
broad but representative sample of eighteen staff members of
the institution who are involved with marketing, media,
career advice, publicity and similar marketing activities.
The results revealed ACTITAFE has no formal marketing
strategy. The attitude toward marketing and the marketplace
has been ad hoc, uncoordinated, disjointed and reactive in
its approach. Its principal approach is a reliance on
awareness advertising.
Because of the emphasis placed on advertising as the
Institute's major concept for marketing, a questionnaire was
distributed on advertising effectiveness and data were
obtained from 252 completed responses.
The results obtained from this study indicated that over the
years the Institute has successfully built advertising
awareness. Currently, it has no formal structured marketing
strategy. The approach appears to be ad hoc, disjointed and
uncoordinated.
There are positive attempts to rectify this posture. However,
the evidence available suggests that the journey will not be
easy and the transition will not be rapid.
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Two school-based evaluations at a Catholic high school in the ACT a reviewMoore, Peter Joseph, n/a January 1986 (has links)
The completion of two school-based evaluation reports at a
Catholic High School in the ACT highlighted the need for
support structures both for evaluating staff and for the
management of an evaluation report. The writer (a school
principal) felt a need to review school-based evaluations
in a more professional manner, and to ensure that
evaluations were managed with greater support for the staff
involved.
In the absence of known Australian checklists, designed to
review school-based evaluations, two recognised evaluation
checklists, those of Russell and Maling-Keepes, are tested
as instruments of review, by applying them to the two
school evaluation reports. Four evaluation reviews are
documented, in all. The main purposes of this research
were:
(1) to determine the merits of the completed evaluations by
applying the checklists of Russell and Maling-Keepes,
(2) to test the relevance of the evaluation checklists of
Russell and Maling-Keepes as instruments of review at
the school level,
(3) in the light of this research, to be in a better
position to recommend
a) a suitable review method for use by Catholic
School Principals,
b) support structures, both at a system level and a
school level, to assist the development of
school-based evaluations.
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Career choice : drift, desire or decision. Factors influencing career choice of year 12 students in A.C.T. catholic schoolsMuller, Karl, n/a January 1987 (has links)
Year 12 has been identified as a critical decision
point in the career decision making process for students.
Students have been found to make decisions in different
ways some having already defined goals for the future
others are doubtful and make tentative goals.
At the end of Year 12 students are faced with the task
of career decision. During the final two weeks of year 12
these students will have to make choices about their
imminent future that is whether to do tertiary
studies/seek apprenticeships look for immediate employment
or defer studies for a time and seek employment. A review of
major theories relating to career determination was
undertaken. Decision-making theories have identified twelfth
grade/age range 16 - 18 years, as being one of the critical
decision periods for an adolescent. 355 A.C.T. Year 12
students from Catholic Colleges were given a questionnaire
designed to probe students' self awareness in relation to
study habits coping abilities, as well as a description of
some of their personal qualities relating to school life,
subject interest, and career benefits derived from the
future career considered. The information gained from the
Questionnaire was reduced to a number of sets of
relationships by factor analysis. The personal factors of
subject interest, career benefits and further study
interests were examined by canonical correlation techniques
with Career Types.
Students with an interest in scientific careers
exhibited an interest in the physical science subjects.
Those with an expressed interest in a blend of science and
expressive arts career were a group of students with
creative ideas / leadership aspirations,an interest in
cultural and physical science subject, and a desire for
further- studies. Another group of year 12 students involving
more girls than boys showed an interest in a cluster of
careers with a social involvement component but a rejection
of routine activities. Students with an interest in
environmental subjects with a possession of management and
living skills looked towards careers that provided out of
doors activities involving social work and selling. There
was a positive correlation between these personal factors
and the students' choice of a career.
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Community and teacher attitudes toward special educational provisions for gifted students in A.C.T. primary schoolsMulraney, Rosemary Anne, n/a January 1986 (has links)
This decade has seen an increasing awareness by
the Commonwealth Schools Commission, the ACT Schools
Authority, educators and members of the community of
students who are gifted in a diversity of areas.
A number of programs designed to meet the special
needs of gifted students have been developed in some
primary schools in the A.C.T. and it is timely that
the attitudes of principals, teachers and parents were
assessed.
To assess the attitudes of the three populations
(principals, teachers and parents) toward general
attitudes about gifted students, key aspects of planning
and organisation of gifted programs, classroom teachers
and their knowledge and need of assistance in gifted
education; and to explore whether the three populations
held different attitudes toward gifted students and the
provision of specific programs to meet their special
needs, the Field Study candidate developed and
administered a questionnaire to members of the A.C.T.
Association for Gifted and Talented Children, together
with principals, teachers and parents in nineprimary
schools in the A.C.T.
The results of the questionnaire indicated that
all three groups agreed with the proposition that every
child was entitled to an educational program that would
assist the child to develop to his / her fullest
potential. Appropriate extension programs should be run
for gifted students in the local primary school, with the
involvement of the resource teacher and the assistance
of personnel and locations outside of the local school
when it was appropriate.
Some reservations were expressed toward the level
of parent participation in the identification procedure,
program planning and program evaluation, and classroom
teachers were seen to require assistance in the areas
of identification, program planning and the evaluation
of programs designed to meet the special needs of
gifted students.
The Field Study concludes that local A.C.T.
primary schools could meet the special needs of gifted
students. This could be achieved by principals, teachers
and members of the School Board developing and
implementing special educational programs by utilising
Special Project funding, additional staff and
professional development opportunities which are
currently available in limited amounts through the
ACT Schools Authority and the Commonwealth Schools
Commission.
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The relationship between pupil control ideology and subject faculties in ACT government high schoolsMyers, Ian, n/a January 1985 (has links)
The purpose of the study was to establish that a
relationship existed between teacher Pupil Control
Ideology (PCI) and membership of a practical subject
faculty or of a humanities subject faculty in ACT
government high schools. It was hypothesized that
teachers in practical subject faculties and teachers
of practical subjects would be custodial in their
PCI. Teachers in humanities subject faculties and
teachers of humanities subjects would be humanistic
in their PCI. A subsidiary purpose was to replicate
earlier research findings of a relationship between
PCI and years of teaching, sex, position in the
school administration, and type of school.
The PCI Form was administered to a population sample
of 116 teachers from five high schools in the Belconnen
area of Canberra. The results were subjected to t-test
and one-way analysis of variance. Statistically
significant relationships were observed between PCI
and teacher variables of subject faculty, subject
taught, and sex of teacher. Earlier findings for other
variables were not replicated.
The direction of findings was surprising. Teachers
in practical subject faculties and of practical
subjects were more humanistic than humanities
faculty and subject teachers. Female teachers were
more custodial than male teachers. An analysis of
variance showed no interaction effect between
variables sex and faculty, and sex and subject taught.
More research on possible causes of the relationships,
such as student attitude to subject, and teacher
sense of achievement, is needed before the findings
can have practical application.
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