schools

Work led by Tracey-Ann Palmer has investigated how students choose their subjects for their final years of school and how this impacts choice of science. This work has included novel approaches to modelling these choices, particularly using Best-Worst Scaling to understand subject selection.

Led by Amelia Johns (at UTS) the ARC Discovery project, Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diasporic Youth in a Connected World, aims to understand how young Australians think about and express their digital citizenship in secondary school classes and in their everyday digital and social media use.

The Wanago evaluation examined participation by high school students in Engineering at UTS in the Facility of Engineering and IT. This evaluation was conducted in 2019 and was completed towards the end of 2020.

We asked five experts if schools should ban mobile phones in classrooms. Four out of five experts said no.