Longitudinal Teacher Education and Workforce Study (ltews) Final Report

Graduate teachers’ effectiveness - by program area

A one-way between subjects ANOVA was conducted to compare the effect of program area on effectiveness in the seven key areas of teaching. The results are shown in the Table 83.

Table 83. Comparison of mean for effectiveness in the professional standards – by program area

	Early Childhood		Early Childhood /Primary		Primary		Primary/ Secondary		Secondary		Significance
Effective in NPST	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p
Round 2
Know students	4.27	0.504	4.28	0.488	4.19	0.613	4.21	0.627	4.14	0.583	0.064
Know the content	4.25	0.517	4.04	0.614	4.06	0.658	4.10	0.636	4.14	0.653	0.023
Plan and implement	4.25	0.491	4.15	0.557	4.10	0.633	4.13	0.646	4.09	0.619	0.224
Create and maintain	4.39	0.517	4.40	0.607	4.27	0.622	4.28	0.623	4.18	0.647	0.000
Assess, report	4.10	0.552	4.01	0.717	3.85	0.760	3.98	0.795	3.96	0.742	0.003
Professional learning	4.44	0.734	4.29	0.677	4.21	0.719	4.27	0.726	4.13	0.714	0.000
Engage with parents	4.35	0.556	4.22	0.596	4.04	0.724	4.08	0.728	3.88	0.751	0.000
Round 3
Know students	4.28	0.585	4.31	0.524	4.20	0.586	4.28	0.626	4.15	0.554	0.000
Know the content	4.15	0.732	4.09	0.544	4.10	0.608	4.11	0.602	4.20	0.649	0.006
Plan and implement	4.17	0.587	4.17	0.494	4.14	0.633	4.19	0.608	4.13	0.578	0.115
Create and maintain	4.33	0.572	4.32	0.614	4.30	0.630	4.30	0.620	4.19	0.616	0.002
Assess, report	4.12	0.691	3.99	0.693	3.98	0.702	4.07	0.763	4.01	0.681	0.162
Professional learning	4.33	0.681	4.19	0.715	4.20	0.692	4.24	0.718	4.16	0.727	0.107
Engage with parents	4.28	0.555	4.25	0.696	4.10	0.737	4.18	0.713	3.92	0.784	0.000

Note: Round 2: Early Childhood n=77, EC/Prim n=112, Primary n=756, Prim/Sec n=197, Secondary n=866; Round 3: Early Childhood n=60, EC/Prim n=103, Primary n=608, Prim/Sec n=151, Secondary n=677 p<0.05

There was a significant effect for program area on graduate teacher preparedness at the p<0.05 level in five of the seven key areas in Round 2. These were:

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  ‘Know the content and how to teach it’
  
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  ‘Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments’
  
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  ‘Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning’
  
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  ‘Engage in professional learning’
  
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  ‘Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community’
  

In Round 3, there was a significant effect for program type in the following four areas:

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  ‘Know students and how they learn’
  
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  ‘Know the content and how to teach it’
  
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  ‘Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments’
  
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  ‘Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community’
  

A post hoc test was conducted on all key areas, and the significant differences are shown in Table 84.

Table 84. Comparison between groups of mean for effectiveness in the professional standards – by program area

	Significance p
Comparisons between program areas	Round 2	Round 3
Know students and how they learn
EC and EC/Primary	1.000	1.000
EC and Primary	0.730	0.910
EC and Prim/Secondary	0.945	1.000
EC and Secondary	0.350	0.492
EC/Prim and Primary	0.543	0.498
EC/Prim and Primary/Secondary	0.894	0.999
EC/Prim and Secondary	0.162	0.077
Primary and Prim/Secondary	0.976	0.629
Primary and Secondary	0.611	0.493
Prim/Sec and Secondary	0.563	0.084
Know the content and how to teach it
EC and EC/Prim	0.178	0.990
EC and Primary	0.124	0.988
EC and Prim/Secondary	0.416	0.997
EC and Secondary	0.671	0.994
EC/Primary and Primary	0.993	1.000
EC/Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.932	1.000
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.451	0.568
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.969	1.000
Primary and Secondary	0.088	0.046
Primary/Sec and Secondary	0.882	0.596
Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
EC and EC/Primary	0.839	1.000
EC and Primary	0.262	1.000
EC and Primary/Secondary	0.602	1.000
EC and Secondary	0.196	0.998
EC/Primary and Primary	0.912	0.997
EC/Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.997	1.000
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.842	0.986
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.977	0.953
Primary and Secondary	0.997	0.999
Primary/Secondary and Secondary	0.930	0.882
Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
EC and EC/Primary	1.000	1.000
EC and Primary	0.525	0.998
EC and Primary/Secondary	0.724	0.999
EC and Secondary	0.041	0.524
EC/Primary and Primary	0.251	0.999
EC/Primary and Prim/Secondary	0.510	1.000
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.004	0.352
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.999	1.000
Primary and Secondary	0.026	0.028
Primary/Sec and Secondary	0.221	0.385
Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
EC and EC/Primary	0.912	0.876
EC and Primary	0.037	0.711
EC and Primary/Secondary	0.729	0.997
EC and Secondary	0.473	0.888
EC/Primary and Primary	0.222	1.000
EC/Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.997	0.958
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.962	0.999
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.194	0.769
Primary and Secondary	0.031	0.960
Primary/Secondary and Secondary	0.996	0.964
Engage in professional learning
EC and EC/Primary	0.582	0.834
EC and Primary	0.059	0.729
EC and Primary/Secondary	0.410	0.952
EC and Secondary	0.002	0.436
EC/Primary and Primary	0.854	1.000
EC/Primary and Primary/Secondary	1.000	0.997
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.172	0.996
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.823	0.990
Primary and Secondary	0.104	0.894
Primary/Secondary and Secondary	0.067	0.796
Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
EC and EC/Primary	0.758	1.000
EC and Primary	0.004	0.467
EC and Primary/Secondary	0.039	0.942
EC and Secondary	0.000	0.004
EC/Primary and Primary	0.103	0.406
EC/Primary and Prim/Secondary	0.424	0.972
EC/Primary and Secondary	0.000	0.000
Primary and Primary/Secondary	0.981	0.867
Primary and Secondary	0.000	0.000
Primary/Secondary and Secondary	0.007	0.001