Longitudinal Teacher Education and Workforce Study (ltews) Final Report

In summary, post hoc comparisons using the Tukey HSD test indicated that the mean score for:

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  ‘Know students and how they learn’ did not show significant differences between program areas
  
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  ‘Know the content and how to teach it’ was significantly different between:
  
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    Primary and secondary program areas in Round 3
    

This suggests that secondary graduates felt more effective in their subject disciplines than do primary graduates by their second year of teaching.

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  ‘Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning’ did not show significant differences between program areas
  
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  Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments’ was significantly different between:
  
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    the secondary program area and early childhood, early childhood/primary and primary program areas in Round 2
    
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    Secondary and primary program areas in Round 3
    

This suggests that secondary graduates felt less effective in this key area than do those from other program areas.

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  ‘Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning’ was significantly different between:
  
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    Primary and early childhood program areas in Round 2
    
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    Primary and secondary program areas in Round 2
    

This suggests that in their first year of teaching, graduates from the primary area felt less effective than those from early childhood and secondary areas in this national standard measurement.

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  ‘Engage in professional learning ‘was significantly different between:
  
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    Early childhood and secondary in Round 2
    

This suggests that those from a secondary program area felt less effective in their engagement with professional learning in their first year out than did those from an early childhood area.

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  ‘Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community’ was significantly different between:
  
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    Early childhood program areas and primary and primary/secondary program areas in Round 2
    
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    Secondary and all other program areas in Rounds 2 and 3
    

This suggests that in the first year of teaching, those from an early childhood program area felt more effective in this area than did graduates from other program areas. The results also suggest that those from a secondary program area felt less effective in the area of engaging with colleagues, parents and the community than did those from other program areas; and this continues into the second year of teaching.

Comparing graduate teachers’ and principals’ perceptions on effectiveness in the professional standards

The following Tables show what the graduate teachers thought of their effectiveness in terms of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers compared to what their principals thought of the teachers' effectiveness in these seven areas. The percentages in the Tables are for teachers participating in the LTEWS Graduate Teacher Survey Rounds 2 and 3 and the principals of their schools who responded to the LTEWS Principal Survey in these rounds.

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   Effectiveness in the area of 'Know students and how they learn'
   

The first table shows what graduates and principals said about the graduates’ effectiveness in the area of 'Know students and how they learn'.

Table 85. Comparison of teacher and principal perceptions on effectiveness in 'Know students and how they learn'

	Principals
	Strongly disagree		Disagree	Neither agree nor disagree	Agree	Strongly agree	Total
Graduates
Round 2
		Row percentages
Strongly disagree							-
Disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	100.0
Neither agree nor disagree		5.0	15.0	0.0	60.0	20.0	100.0
Agree		0.0	3.9	3.9	60.0	32.3	100.0
Strongly agree		1.7	3.3	8.3	46.7	40.0	100.0
TOTAL		0.8	4.7	4.7	56.8	33.1	100.0
		Column percentages
Strongly disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.4
Neither agree nor disagree		50.0	27.3	0.0	9.0	5.1	8.5
Agree		0.0	54.5	54.5	69.4	64.1	65.7
Strongly agree		50.0	18.2	45.5	20.9	30.8	25.4
TOTAL		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Round 3
		Row percentages
Strongly disagree							-
Disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	100.0
Neither agree nor disagree		0.0	12.5	12.5	62.5	12.5	100.0
Agree		0.0	2.1	7.7	64.3	25.9	100.0
Strongly agree		2.9	1.4	4.3	53.6	37.7	100.0
TOTAL		0.9	2.3	6.8	61.1	29.0	100.0
		Column percentages
Strongly disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Disagree		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.5
Neither agree nor disagree		0.0	20.0	6.7	3.7	1.6	3.6
Agree		0.0	60.0	73.3	68.1	57.8	64.7
Strongly agree		100.0	20.0	20.0	27.4	40.6	31.2
TOTAL		100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0