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Jason Hassard; Donna Pendergast; Stephen Hay – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2024
In Queensland, Australia, there has been a major reform shifting Year 7 from Primary to Secondary Schools and implementing the Junior Secondary initiative for Years 7-9 in government schools. Six Guiding Principles, including establishing a Distinct Identity, provide the framework. This study examined 317 students transitioning from Year 6 to 7,…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Student School Relationship, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Main, Katherine; Pendergast, Donna – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2015
The authors outline the potent relationship between continuing professional development (CPD), teacher efficacy, and student learning outcomes in the context of a major reform of middle years teacher work in Queensland, Australia. The authors explore core features of effective teacher CPD, including content focus, active learning, coherence,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers
Coffey, Anne; Berlach, Richard G.; O'Neill, Michael – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2013
After much preparatory work, the Catholic Education Office in Western Australia determined to move Year 7 students from its more than 100 primary schools to secondary schools in 2009. This was the first time in the state's history that a major education system had embarked on such an undertaking. This system-wide shift presented a unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Stakeholders, Transitional Programs