Report: On the Edge of Adulthood

Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. Several reports from the age-16 phase of the project have been published. This report summaries the key findings at age 16.

Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Edith Hodgen, Rosemary Hipkins and Karen Vaughan, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Date Published: May 2009

Read the article on the Education Counts New Zealand Goverment website

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Report: Inquiry into school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools

Report: Inquiry Into School Libraries and Teacher Librarians In Australian Schools

On Monday 23 May 2011, the House Standing Committee on Education and Employment tabled its report on the inquiry into school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools entitled School libraries and teacher librarians in 21st century Australia.

Read the full report on the Parliament of Australia website. 

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Article: School Libraries Matter! The missing piece in the education puzzle

Article: School Libraries Matter - The Missing Piece in the Education Puzzle

"For some time now, there has been rising concern about the steady decline in the performance of Australian students in international testing such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the stagnation or decline in various aspects of our National Assessment Program. At the same time, staffing levels of qualified teacher librarians (TLs) are dropping around the nation.This article examines the skills Australian students will need for the future and how school library staff and services support these skills. The results of an ongoing study into library staffing levels in Australian Capital Territory (ACT) schools are shared and discussed. Future implications for the library profession are identified here."

Written by Teacher Librarians, Holly Godfree and Olivia Neilson, the School Libraries Matter! article explores the links between declining student achievement levels and declining library staffing arrangement.

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This article was first published in ACCESS, Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2018 and is shared here with the authors' permission.

 

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