Education Direct: An Alternative Entry Pathway to Pre-service Teacher Education
Document Type
Journal Article
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Education / Fogarty Learning Centre
RAS ID
14183
Abstract
Universities in Australia are offering alternative entrance pathways to attract students from a range of backgrounds. These alternative pathways will undoubtedly be reviewed due to the recommendation in the Review of Australian Higher Education (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent & Scales, 2008) concerning increasing the diversity of university entrants. This paper discusses an alternative entry pathway, Education Direct (ED), offered by the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, and commences with a review of the literature about such pathways. The next section explores the development and nature of the ED pathway, before outlining the research design and identifying the research questions, which concentrate on retention, academic achievement, and progression rates of ED students. The findings indicate that students who have entered pre-service teacher education via ED are enjoying academic success at comparable levels to students who enrolled through more traditional pathways. Furthermore, their retention and progression rates are not notably different to those of other students.
DOI
10.14221/ajte.2012v37n8.1
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Pilkington, K. W., & Lock, G. J. (2012). Education Direct: An Alternative Entry Pathway to Pre-service Teacher Education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 37(8), 32-45. Available here