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Students Move: Supporting Students Who Change Schools

Best Practice in Student Data Transfer

Schooling Issues Digest – Performance of Australian School Students in International Studies in Science

SPELD NSW Literacy Skills for Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

Students Move: Supporting Students Who Change Schools

Category: Special needs and disadvantaged
Published: November 2004

In late 2002, following completion of the report Changing Schools – Its Impact on Student Learning, two further studies on student mobility were commissioned. This report is a companion to the Best Practice in Student Data Transfer report. The objective of this study was to provide information for schools on how best to support mobile students. It involved interviews with representatives from 55 schools (61% primary, 23% secondary and 16% combined primary-secondary) many of which have high to very high turnovers of students.

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Best Practice in Student Data Transfer

Category: Special needs and disadvantaged
Published: November 2004

In late 2002, following completion of the report Changing Schools – Its Impact on Student Learning, two further studies on student mobility were commissioned. This study identifies the most useful range of current, timely and meaningful information to be collected by the ‘sending’ school and the most effective ways of transmitting this information to the ‘receiving’ school.

The companion report Students Move: Supporting Students Who Change Schools is also available.

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Schooling Issues Digest – Performance of Australian School Students in International Studies in Science

Category: Science
Published: November 2004

The Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) is publishing a series of brief reports titled Schooling Issues Digests which summarise existing research material on selected topics relevant to schooling in Australia. The purpose of these digests is to provide status reports on the results of recent international and national research on selected topics, in a non-technical, easy-to-read format, which brings together and demystifies complicated research and statistical data.

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