This report found that experience of working full-time early in the school-to-work transition has the most positive effect on youth labour market outcomes. In addition, early experience of unemployment has a 'scarring' effect on subsequent unemployment. The report, the latest in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), examines the labour market outcomes of a...

ACER is managing the National Year 6 Science Assessment on behalf of the Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce subgroup of the federal government's Ministerial Committee for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. In late October 2003 students from schools sampled throughout Australia will be sitting for a written task and a practical task so that...

This report identifies a broadening in subject selection by Australian Year 12 students over the past decade. More students are opting for vocationally oriented subjects rather than the key learning areas of English, mathematics, society and environment and the sciences.

This is research report number 31 in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) research program. Among the report's key findings is that many early school leavers progress well in the first few years after leaving school. Taken together, the results indicate that during the late teenage years school non-completers are not unequivocally 'worse off'...

This report provides an Australian-focused analysis and discussion of the results from the international study, Teaching Mathematics in Seven Countries: Results from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study, which was released earlier this year. The examination of videotapes of 87 randomly selected Year 8 mathematics classes from around Australia indicates, among other findings, that Australian mathematics...