New Solutions For Maximising Secondary Indigenous Students' Full Potential: Identifying Causal Constructs That Enhance Indigenous Students' Aspirations and Educational Outcomes

土著学生在所有指标上都是最弱势的澳大利亚人。与非土著学生相比，土著学生的抱负明显较低。鉴于预测生活机会的愿望至关重要，这是令人担忧的。利用最近的进展，本调查旨在确定对土著学生的愿望和教育成果产生因果影响的构念，并测试土著和非土著学生的关系模式是否存在差异。这将导致：确定新的干预办法，土著人口的健全测量工具，区分有效的理论方向和研究方法。

Indigenous students are the most disadvantaged Australians on all indicators.Indigenous students' aspirations are significantly lower in comparison to non-Indigenous peers.Given the vital importance of aspirations for predicating life opportunities this is of dire concern.Capitalising on recent advances this investigation aims to identify constructs that causally impact on Indigenous students' aspirations and educational outcomes, and test whether the pattern of relations differentially varies for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. This will result in: Identifying new solutions for intervention, sound measurement instruments for Indigenous populations, and distinguishing effective theoretical orientations and research methodology.