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Article: Editorial.(Editorial)
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- Australian Journal of Education
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Evaluation, gender, policy and politics: this edition of the Australian Journal of Education reports on research that examines some of the fundamental matters in education, dealing with evaluation in terms of teacher quality, higher degrees and the curriculum; and the effect of a student's gender and the effect of a teacher's gender on students' educational attainment. Such matters depend on the relation between educational policy, research and the professional knowledge of teachers, a relation that can itself be usefully subjected to examination.
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