This report outlines the findings from the first three years of the ACER 'Longitudinal literacy and numeracy study', spanning the period in which the students in the study entered school and continued into their second and third years of school.

Siek Toon Khoo and John Ainley examine how attitudes influence decisions to continue with school and education beyond school. Using data from 13,600 young people who were sampled when they were in Year 9 of school in 1995 and whose educational and occupational activities have since been followed annually, they found a strong relationship between...