Donald Beasley Institute for research and education on intellectual disability.

Research on Transient Students

Addressing the needs of transient students

Photo of parking area outside the Donald Beasley Institute.

This Teaching and Learning Initiative (TRLI) project emerged out of a request from the principals and teachers in a small Area School. Student transience was observed at the school to complicate the learning and social experiences of some students.

This recently completed project provided an opportunity for the participating school to identify, discuss and research the particular effects, or disruptions, of transience within their own school, and to do this in a learning community that focussed on existing research and an action research project.

Research Team: Dr Jude MacArthur and Dr Nancy Higgins (Donald Beasley Institute)