scholarly journals Factors leading to the adoption of a learning technology: The case of graphics calculators

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Handal ◽  
Michael Cavanagh ◽  
Leigh Wood ◽  
Peter Petocz
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Faculty Support ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Graphics Calculators ◽  
Shed Light

<span>This paper reports on a case study which examined factors leading to the adoption of graphics calculators (GCs) by secondary mathematics teachers in the state of New South Wales, Australia. In total, 587 teachers of the General Mathematics Course (Years 11 and 12) participated in the study. The median teachers' stage of adoption of GCs was found to be at the "Understanding and application of the process" level, the third lowest on a six point scale. The results also indicate that competence is the most important factor in explaining stages of adoption, training the second most important, followed by personal interest in GCs as well as faculty support. Teachers' gender, teaching experience, educational qualifications and the number of GCs in schools were not found to be statistically significant. Qualitative analysis of teachers' open ended comments also shed light on the nature of the explanatory variables. The findings are relevant to curriculum development policy and the design of professional development programs, and has implications for the introduction of other technologies.</span>

scholarly journals Indirect Impacts of COVID-19: A Case Study of Evidence, Advice and Representation From Consumer and Community Members in New South Wales Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 237437352199862
Author(s):  
Tara Dimopoulos-Bick ◽  
Louisa Walsh ◽  
Kim Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New South ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Community Members ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Health Consumers ◽  
Indirect Impacts

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect health care systems globally, and there is widespread concern about the indirect impacts of COVID-19. Indirect impacts are caused by missed or delayed health care—not as a direct consequence of COVID-19 infections. This study gathered experiences of, and perspectives on, the indirect impacts of COVID-19 for health consumers, patients, their families and carers, and the broader community in New South Wales, Australia. A series of semi-structured virtual group discussions were conducted with 33 health consumers and community members between August 24 and August 31, 2020. Data were analyzed using an inductive thematic analysis approach. The analysis identified 3 main themes: poor health outcomes for individuals; problems with how health care is designed and delivered; and increasing health inequality. This case study provides insight into the indirect impacts of COVID-19. Health systems can draw on the insights learned as a source of experiential evidence to help identify, monitor and respond to the indirect impacts of COVID-19.

Surviving School and “Survival Schools”: Resistance, Compulsion and Negotiation in Aboriginal Engagements with Schooling

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Amy Thomas ◽  
Beth Marsden
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
First Case ◽  
Colonial Schooling ◽  
Colonial Capitalism

In Australia, Aboriginal peoples have sought to exploit and challenge settler colonial schooling to meet their own goals and needs, engaging in strategic, diverse and creative ways closely tied to labour markets and the labour movement. Here, we bring together two case studies to illustrate the interplay of negotiation, resistance and compulsion that we argue has characterised Aboriginal engagements with school as a structure within settler colonial capitalism. Our first case study explains how Aboriginal families in Victoria and New South Wales deliberately exploited gaps in school record collecting to maintain mobility during the mid-twentieth century and engaged with labour markets that enabled visits to country. Our second case study explores the Strelley mob’s establishment of independent, Aboriginal-controlled bilingual schools in the 1970s to maintain control of their labour and their futures. Techniques of survival developed in and around schooling have been neglected by historians, yet they demonstrate how schooling has been a strategic political project, both for Aboriginal peoples and the Australian settler colonial state.

scholarly journals Drivers of Productivity: a Case Study of the Australian Construction Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Chancellor
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
New South ◽  
Safety Regulation ◽  
Construction Productivity ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Construction Activity

Australian construction productivity has grown slowly since 1985 and remains arguably stagnant. The importance of this study is therefore to examine several factors through to be drivers of construction productivity and to understand possible avenues for improvement. The drivers tested are research and development, apprentices, wage growth, unionisation and safety regulation. Expenditure on research and development and the number of apprentices were found to be drivers of productivity growth in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. These findings are important because collectively, these three states account for a majority of construction activity in Australia.

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