1. Editorial

   • Lynn Meek

   EditorialNotes Pages: iv - iv

2. The research vacuum in commonwealth policy on technical and further education

   • R. J. Ryan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

3. School-based assessment in the 1986 NSW higher school certificate

   • Brian Low
   • Moya Adams
   • Ruth Neumann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 23

4. A comparison of reading comprehension knowledge in above average, average and below average comprehenders: A study in metacomprehension

   • Anne Newman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 38

5. Encounters of the first kind

   • Kay Martinez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 55

6. Learning the language of mathematics

   • Mollie MacGregor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 65

7. Australian association for research in education

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 71

8. Book reviews

   • Neil Marshall
   • Richard Lowe
   • R. J. S. Macpherson

   BookReview Pages: 73 - 79