Compulsory distance education has always sought to be inclusive, providing educational opportunities for K-12 students unable attend mainstream, face-to-face schools medical, geographical, or personal reasons. However, how effectively engage these diverse learners remained a perpetual challenge, with need further investigation into the nature of student engagement compulsory school contexts and teachers can best support it. This qualitative study used focus groups (n = 2 groups, n 16...

As a form of assessment, examinations are designed to determine whether students have met learning outcomes. However, with disabilities report avoiding examinations, selecting units study where the assessments align their strengths. To ensure do not contribute systematic exclusion disabilities, it is important explore experiences. In this paper, we use sociomaterial frame analyse how examination arrangements construct inclusion in examinations. Interviews 40 were conducted across two...

There is both a growing appreciation of teacher assessment capability for the improvement school student learning and achievement commensurate drive graduates in Australian Initial Teacher Education institutions to demonstrate impact on as part national accreditation process. We argue this article that if are prepare capable who "profession-ready", attention practice architectures warranted. Practice features schools enable and/or constrain practice. Skills, knowledge understandings do not...

: Feedback and reflective processes play an important role in learning with both teachers students required to active roles. The importance of feedback practices takes on added dimension the field teacher education as assessment are also professional that themselves will be enacting their To this end, provides opportunities for develop own literacy but draws attention teacher-education lecturer or assessor roles relationships involved. This article reports a research study which investigated...

While online courses provide opportunities for a range of assessment tools and resources, little is known about how lecturers might best cues to support diverse cohorts. This study explored communicate messages expectations first-year students in two at an Australian regional university (Nursing, n = 323; Engineering, 153), accessed the resources. A comparative case methodology was used. Data included interviews with course coordinators identify provided, content related data recording...

It is widely acknowledged that there systemic pressure on teachers to enact assessment practices raise student achievement. In this article related discourses influence teacher and classroom are examined in relation initial education. Australia, preservice (PSTs) required demonstrate capability, promote agency monitor their practice impact learning whilst working schooling ecologies marked by high stakes accountability measures. Processes bridge university in-school PST preparation an...

Within Australia, Vocational Education and Training (VET) is promoted as a pathway for low socioeconomic status (LSES) students to enter Higher (HE). However, greater equity will only occur if these achieve successful university outcomes. But how should such success be defined? This paper examined two data sources (i.e., nine years of archival achievement from one multi-campus Australian university, 18 qualitative interviews with LSES VET who had transitioned HE) consider varying measures...

It is widely acknowledged that there systemic pressure on teachers to enact assessment practices raise student achievement. In this article related discourses influence teacher and classroom are examined in relation initial education. Australia, preservice (PSTs) required demonstrate capability, promote agency monitor their practice impact learning whilst working schooling ecologies marked by high stakes accountability measures. Processes bridge university in-school PST preparation an...

Learning professional skills through exposure to real-world contexts demands sophisticated assessment practices. However, complex and often novel genres can be daunting for undergraduate students. This study examined student perspectives as they engaged in Portfolio the first time within a core engineering unit. 42 students were surveyed (27%) with 11 participating follow-up telephone interview. Students rated content derived from their contributions team projects most valuable component of...

This project investigated VET educators' perspectives of the usefulness and ease-of-use technology in their units, including difficulties they had implementing technology. Teachers were offered a one-day ‘bootcamp’ style workshop where introduced to innovative for classroom. A significant amount time workshops was spent mapping pedagogy using ‘pedagogy before technology’ approach. The study designed as an action research with combination quantitative qualitative questions delivered via...