Faculty of Education: Recent submissions
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Teachers’ formative assessment of reading comprehension in Chile: challenges and opportunities
This thesis identifies and analyses the challenges of, and opportunities for, reading comprehension assessment practices with a formative purpose in Chilean classrooms. This research conceives assessment as a bridge between ... -
Recalled to Life: Adaptations of Charles Dickens for Children and Young Adults
There exists a multitude of adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels for children and young adults, but thus far this body of work has been paid little critical attention. This thesis proposes to change that by analysing a ... -
Unpacking the links between household income and child academic achievement in Australia through the development of the PICAA microsimulation systems model
Driven by the internationally observed phenomenon that poorer children perform worse on standardised tests than their more affluent counterparts, this study attempts to understand the key links between household income and ... -
Teacher Capital Unbound? The Role of Organisational Structures for Teacher Social Capital and Student Outcome
This thesis addresses the role of school organisational structures for teacher social capital and student outcome. The thesis is driven by a general concern over the widescale reforms Swedish schools have undergone in the ...
