Social goals have also been proposed as important additions to mastery and performance goals in educational contexts, particularly in non-Western cultures but no study has yet tested the possibility that such goals can also combine with mastery and performance goals leading to superior learning outcomes. Longitudinal studies are also rare in this…

A study examined the relationship between Australian high school students' perceptions of communication style and their preferred and actual educational (school and classroom) environments, and the effects of gender or grade level on that relationship. Results are discussed. (MSE)

Two Australian studies of male and female achievement, attitudes toward computers, and computer use are reported and discussed. One study investigated differences between male and female parents, teachers, and students in 32 schools with extensive computer experience; the other is a survey of 1,000 schools throughout the country. (MSE)

A simple statistical model to measure the effects of innovation and schooling is proposed. Synthesis of 134 meta-analyses revealed that educational innovations can be expected to change average achievement by 0.4 standards deviations and affective outcomes by 0.2 standard deviations. Innovation and feedback appear to enhance effects;…

Higher education performance indicators are being increasingly used in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia. A model of performance indicators was applied to departments of education in 17 Australian universities, ranking departments on inputs, processes, and outputs. Implications of various weighting schemes are discussed. Tables…

It is proposed that, in evaluation of higher education, the individual faculty member is a more appropriate unit of analysis than institution or department. A study of faculty (n=2,048) productivity in publishing scholarly journal articles provides evidence supporting this view. (Author/MSE)