[DOWNLOAD] "Changing Schools: How Policy Implementation can Impact on the Literacy Learning of Mobile Students (Report)" by Australasian Journal of Early Childhood ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Changing Schools: How Policy Implementation can Impact on the Literacy Learning of Mobile Students (Report)
- Author : Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 219 KB
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Introduction QUEENSLAND STATE SCHOOLS have been part of a significant literacy teaching reform agenda with the stated intention of 'achieving excellence in literacy education, for the benefit of all students' (Education Queensland, 2006, p. 1). These reforms appear predicated on the belief that students arrive on the first day of the school year and attend that school for at least the full school year. However, recent research undertaken in a Queensland regional city (Hill & Lynch, 2007) indicates that significant numbers of early years student movements occur throughout the school year--with some students attending multiple schools in the course of a year. While previous research has not demonstrated a causal link between mobility and achievement (see Strand & Demie, 2006), some researchers suggest that changing schools in the early years may be highly disruptive to learning and closely related to academic achievement (Heinlein & Shinn, 2000; Strand & Demie, 2006; Temple & Reynolds, 1999). Other research into literacy development has found that students who fall behind in the early years rarely 'catch up' (Hill, Comber, Louden, Rivalland & Reid, 2002).