Content Posted in 2011
21st-century learning, Steve Holden
ACER Research Conference Proceedings (2011)
Addressing educational disadvantage, Adrian Beavis
Afternoon tea, poster presentations and networking
A fun and easy way for kids to play tennis, Sarah-Lucy Rice
All the school's a stage, James Evans
An Australian science curriculum: Competition, advances and retreats, Peter Aubusson
A new era in early years learning, Bridie Raban
An overview of psychometric properties of the AUSSE Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ), Hamish Coates
A question of privacy?, Steven Stolz
Assessment of current process for targeting of schools funding to disadvantaged students: A report prepared for the Review of Funding for Schooling Panel, Adam Rorris, Paul R. Weldon, Adrian Beavis, Phillip McKenzie, Meredith Bramich, and Alana Deery
At the chalkface: Transforming education, Brian Lynch
Australian Apprentice Retention Pilot Project: Report to MEGT, Justin Brown, Phillip McKenzie, and Adrian Beavis
Australian Regional Higher Education: Student characteristics and experiences, Sarah Richardson and Tim Friedman
Back to school – for teachers, Rebecca Leech
Balancing act: Balancing study, work and a personal life, Terry Evans
Beyond Happiness: Managing Engagement to Enhance Satisfaction and Grades, Hamish Coates
Bring the drama, Helen Hristofski
Building a knowledge structure for English : Reflections on the challenges of coherence, cumulative learning, portability and face validity, Mary Macken-Horarik
Built for learning, Hal Cutting
Can happiness be taught? Yes, it can, Trevor Lee
Can history succeed at school? Problems of knowledge in the Australian history curriculum, Rob Gilbert
[ Caption it ], Leonie Jackson
Career Moves : Expectations and Destinations of New South Wales Senior Secondary Students, Gary N. Marks Dr., Catherine Underwood, Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, and ACER
Challenges for Australian education, Sue Thomson
Challenges for Australian education : results from PISA 2009 : the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, Marina Nicholas, Kylie Hillman, and Sarah Buckley
Change you mind, Catherine Scott
Classic and contemporary texts, and teachers’ notes, Sean Loriaux
Climate control, Robert Semmel
Cloud science, Wayne Houlden
Conference Opening, Geoff Masters
Connecting with kids, Michele Lonsdale
Connect - October-December 2010
Content fundamentals for a TV show aimed at Indigenous children aged 3 to 6: a literature review and discussion paper, David Norris
Coping with the threat of closure in a small Finnish village school, Gunilla Karlberg-Granlund
Design partners, Brian Collins and Steve Bellesini
Digital natives? New and old media and children’s outcomes, Michael Bittman, Leonie Rutherford, Jude Brown, and Len Unsworth
Dispelling myths: Indigenous students’ engagement with university, Christine Asmar, Susan Page, and Ali Radloff
Do children play the way they used to?, Gwenda Beed Davey
Doing more for learning : enhancing engagement and outcomes : Australasian Survey of Student Engagement : Australasian Student Engagement Report., Ali Radloff and Hamish Coates
Dropout DNA, and the genetics of effective support, Hamish Coates and Laurie Ransom
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Glenn Rowley
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Steve Holden
Editorial, Glenn Rowley
Editorial, Glenn Rowley
Educating and enterprising: The Big Issue Classroom, Elise Moore
Education and training and the avoidance of financial disadvantage, Gary N. Marks Dr.
Education for aspiring artists, Jessica Bendell
Emagination, Sarah Hassanen
Engaging College Communities: The impact of residential colleges in Australian higher education, Hamish Coates and Daniel Edwards
Enhancing the Engagement of Distributed Learners, Hamish Coates
Evan’s story, Suzie Alev
Examining the use of ICT in mathematics and science teaching, John Ainley
Exploring mathematical competencies, Ross Turner
External management of curriculum change, Judy Smeed, Angela Douglas, and Julie Nickerson
Eye opener: Cross-cultural teaching and learning, Stacey Hartmann
Family secrets, Simon Gips
Final Evaluation Report: Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (SILA) Project, Robert Hattam, Lyn Kerkham, John Walsh, Jenny Barnett, Dianne Bills, Petra Lietz, and Mollie Tobin
Final report: the benefits of school–business relationships, Michele Lonsdale, Alana Deery, Sharon Clerke, Michelle Anderson, Emma Curtin, Pat Knight, and Meredith Bramich
First interim report of Schools First: Evaluation of the 2009 awards, Robert Simons
Formative assessment: ‘There is nothing so practical as a good theory’, Ian Clark
Get kids into cricket in schools, Rebecca Mulgrew
Getting first-year students engaged, Hamish Coates
Getting students moving, Catherine Underwood
Getting the most out of your next incursion, Jenny Johnson
Gifted and talented: Is it really a gift?, Danielle Roddick
‘Go boldly, dream large!’: The challenges confronting non-traditional students at university, Lyle Munro
Going the extra mile, Jane Ryan
‘Good for kids’: Children who have been homeless talk about school, Tim Moore and Morag McArthur
Good habits, Michelle Waller
Grammar doesn't matter on a first date, Mark Butler
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Grapevine, Steve Holden
Guest editorial, Michelle Anderson and Helen Wildy
Half Full? Positive relationaships improve student behaviour, DanIelle Roddick
ICCS 2009 European report : civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement among lower secondary students in 24 European countries, David Kerr, LInda Sturman, Wolfram Schulz, and Bethan Burge
ICCS 2009 International Report: Civic knowledge, attitudes and engagement among lower secondary school students in thirty-eight countries., Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, Julian Fraillon, David Kerr, and Bruno Losito
ICCS 2009 Latin American Report : civic knowledge and attitudes among lower-secondary students in six Latin American countries, Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, Tim Friedman, and Petra Lietz
ICCS 2009 Technical Report, Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, and Julian Fraillon
ICT in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in Year 8 in Australia: report from the IEA Second International Technology in Education Study (SITES) survey, John Ainley, Frances Eveleigh, Chris Freeman, and Kate O'Malley
Immersed, Brad Jackel
Improving the small rural or remote school: The role of the district, Simon Clarke and Helen Wildy
In defence of numbers in standards-based assessment, Mike Wilkinson
Indigenous primary school experiences, Kate Reid
Industry, Employment, and Population profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards, Paul R. Weldon, and Tim Friedman
International Civic and Citizenship Education Study : Assessment Framework, Wolfram Schulz, Julian Fraillon, John Ainley, Bruno Losito, and David Kerr
International Developments (No.1) 2010
International Developments (No.1) 2010
International engagements: The characteristics of international students’ engagement with university, Daniel Edwards
International Schools' Assessment Program
International students’ engagement with effective educational practices: A cross-national comparison, Daniel Edwards
International Update (No. 1) December 2010
iPads: Transferring or transforming education, Adam Brice
It’s good to have a mentor, Caroline Cotton
It was against the law, Sabiene Heindl
Keynote Address 1 - Educational Success: A sustainable outcome for all Indigenous students when teachers understand where the learning journey begins., Jeannie Herbert
Keynote Address 2 - Creating Indigenous Classrooms of Tomorrow Today: What children will need to know and how to create it?, Lester-Irabinna Rigney
Keynote Address 3 - Key factors influencing educational outcomes for Indigenous students and their implications for planning and practice in the NT., Jonathon Carapetis and Sven Silburn
Keynote Address 4 - Indigenous Education: Finding face, making space, having place., Lorna Williams
Leading Learning in Education and Philanthrophy : 2011 Survey Report, Michelle Anderson and Emma Curtin
Lifelong effects of attendance at Kindergarten Union preschools in South Australia, Katina D'Onise, John W. Lynch, and Robyn A. McDermott
Literacy and Numeracy Learning: Lessons from the Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Study for Indigenous Students, Nola Purdie, Kate Reid, Tracey Frigo, Alison Stone, and Elizabeth Kleinhenz
Literacy levels, Rebecca Leech
Lunch is available for those who are able to stay
Lunch, poster presentations and networking
Lunchtime Talkback - Indigenous Students and Large Scale Assessments such as NAPLAN: How do we make sure we get an accurate picture of what Indigenous students know?, Chris Freeman and Frances Eveleigh
Maximising the impact of philanthropy in education, Michelle Anderson
Maximising the impact of philanthropy in education, Michelle Anderson
Mentoring the mentors, Caroline Cotton
Mobile learning, Jarrod Robinson
Modular buldings break the mould, Paul Bailey
Monitoring risk and return: Critical insights into graduate coursework engagement and outcomes, Daniel Edwards
Morning tea, poster presentations and networking
Morning tea, poster presentations and networking
NAPLAN: it’s a useful tool in your professional toolbox, Jo-Anne Dooner
National curriculum: A political-educational tangle, Marie Brennan
National News, Steve Holden
National News, Steve Holden
National News, Steve Holden
National News, Steve Holden
National News, Steve Holden
National News, Steve Holden
New secondary diploma to meet students' workplace needs, Deirdre Jackson
Not just little boxes, Kelly Boucher
One foot in university, the other at school, Field Rickards
On empathy: If soldiers in Flanders fields could show empathy, so can we, John Hendry
Open the door: effective teaching is no secret, Russell Boyle
PISA in brief : highlights from the full Australian report : challenges for Australian education : results from PISA 2009 : the PISA 2009 assessment of students' reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, Marina Nicholas, Kylie Hillman, and Sarah Buckley
Play for life, Danielle Fleeton
Positive touch, Maria Hart
Powerfullearning: Taking education reform to scale, David Hopkins, Wayne Craig, and John K. Munro
Pre-dinner drinks for Conference Dinner
Primarily Mandarin, Jo Allum
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
PYP and MYP Student Performance on the International Schools’ Assessment (ISA), Ling Tan and Yan Bibby
Quality of Professional Learning Index: Measure of Outcomes of Professional Development, Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Quality teachers Simply the best?, Robyn Collins
Quick draw, Sara Cousins
Real-world and active: the benefits of problem-based learning, Caroline Cotton
References, Steve Holden
Reforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, principles and challenges, Geoff N. Masters
Regenerating rural social space? Teacher education for rural–regional sustainability, Jo-Anne Reid, Bill Green, Maxine Cooper, Wendy Hastings, Graeme Lock, and Simone White
Regenerating the academic workforce: the careers, intentions and motivations of higher degree research students in Australia: findings of the National Research Student Survey (NRSS), Daniel Edwards, Emmaline Bexley, and Sarah Richardson
Research Developments (No.24) Summer 2010
Research Developments (No.25) Winter 2011
Research Developments (No. 26) -- Summer 2011-2012
Research Developments (No. 26) -- Summer 2011-2012
Research Digest edition 2007/1 : Writing to learn, Marion Meiers
Research Digest edition 2008/1 : Managing Student Behaviour in the Classroom, Jenny Wilkinson and Marion Meiers
Resilient, Debra Ferguson and Lucinda Sharp
Resourcing change in small schools, Michelle Anderson and Simone White
Risk averse, Simon Gipson
Risky business, Leneen Forde
School-community partnerships benefit all, Michele Lonsdale
School-Community Partnerships in Australian Schools, Michele Lonsdale
School funding: An equity model, Trevor Cobbold and Ian Morgan
School funding: Making the right policy choice, Bill Daniels
School funding: Time for new thinking, Tim Hawkes
Schools in their Communities, Robert Simons
Session A - Success in the early years for remote Indigenous children., Georgie Nutton
Session B - Aboriginal Languages Reclamation: Countering the neo-classical onslaught., Kevin Lowe
Session C - Numeracy, Mathematics and Indigenous Learners: Not the same old thing., Caty Morris and Chris Matthews
Session D - Successful post school transitions for Indigenous youth., Justin Brown and Gina Milgate
Session E - Conversation with a Keynote, Jeannie Herbert
Session F - Incorporating and understanding different ways of knowing in the education of Indigenous students., Jill Milroy
Session G - Indigenous curriculum is out there but lacking a quality teaching base., John Lester
Session H - Research-based literacy and numeracy resource for Indigenous students., Margaret James and Cath Pearn
Session J - Conversation with a Keynote, Lester-Irabinna Rigney
Session K - ‘Hearing the Country’: Reflexivity as an intimate journey into epistemological liminalities, John Bradley
Session L - Indigenous Mathematics: Creating an equitable learning environment., Grace Sarra
Session M - Reporting against the National Indigenous Reform Agreement: What have we learnt so far?, Kate Connors
Session N - An Investigation into the Attendance and Retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Students: Research and theory about what works., Stephanie Armstrong and Sarah Buckley
Session O - Conversation with a Keynote, Jonathon Carapetis and Sven Silburn
Sexting, Paul Weldon
Sexting: The legal implications, Leneen Forde and Vanessa Hardley
Small schools, big future, R John Halsey
So you want to be creative?, Veronica Harris
Starry eyes and subservient selves: Portraits of ‘well-rounded’ girlhood in the prospectuses of all-girl elite private schools, Natasha Wardman, Rachael Hutchesson, Kristina Gottschall, Christopher Drew, and Sue Saltmarsh
Step by step, Brooke Tully
Straighten up, Rebecca Leech
Student Aptitude Test for Tertiary Admission (SATTA) Pilot Program: Evaluation Report for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Hamish Bennett Coates, Daniel Edwards, and Tim Friedman
Student Demand Projections: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards and Paul R. Weldon
Student mental health programs in schools: Time for a rethink?, Brian Graetz
Student Profile: Supporting Analysis: Gippsland Tertiary Education Plan, Daniel Edwards and Catherine Underwood
Study skills in the 21st century, Prue Salter
Success against the odds, Kylie Hillman
Sweet emotion, Gerard Ferrara
Teachers’ views on the impact of classroom management on student responsibility, Joel Roache and Ramon (Rom) Lewis
Teaching Mathematics: Using research-informed strategies, Peter Sullivan
Teaching teachers for the future, Steve Holden
That's incredible: Students’ judgements about the credibility of online information, Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger
The Arts and Australian education: Realising potential, Robyn Ewing
The arts and learning, Robyn Ewing
The Australian curriculum : Continuing the national conversation, Bill Atweh and Parlo Singh
The Australian mathematics curriculum: A move forward or back to the future?, Bill Atweh and Merrilyn Goos
The benefits of service learning, Diana Whitton, Ana Levar, and Clare Willmott
The big fish Down Under: Examining moderators of the ‘big-fish-little-pond’ effect for Australia’s high achievers, Marjorie Seaton, Herbert W. Marsh, Alexander Seeshing Yeung, and Rhonda Craven
The 'Cat and Mouse', Judy McKinty
The Digest edition 2008/2 : Using data to improve student learning, Marion Meiers
The Digest edition 2009/1 : The use of ICTs in schools in the digital age: what does the research say?, Marion Meiers
The Digest edition 2009/2 : Talking to learn: dialogue in the classroom, Catherine Scott and Marion Meiers
The Digest edition 2010/1 : Successful professional learning, Marion Meiers and Sarah Buckley
The Digest edition 2010/2 : Language in the mathematics classroom, Marion Meiers
The Digest edition 2010/3 : Civics and Citizenship Education, Suzanne Mellor and Marion Meiers
The eLearning scenario: Technology and contemporary learning, Greg Blackburn
The great outdoors, Tony Hewison
The heart of history, Angela Casey
The Last Word - Bonus or bogus, Steve Holden
The Last Word - Distracted, Steve Holden
The last word: Hedge your bets, Catherine L. Scott
The last Word: Storm in a coffee cup, Steve Holden
The Last Word - The last last word, Steve Holden
The Last Word - Try, try again, Steve Holden
The New National Curriculum in Norway: a change in the role of the principals?, Sidsel Germeten
The On Track Survey 2010 : The Destinations of School Leavers in Victoria : statewide report, Sheldon Rothman, Justin Brown, Kylie Hillman, Gary N. Marks Dr., Phillip McKenzie, and Catherine Underwood
The Reflective Principle — Educating for life, David Loader
The Reflective Principle - Fellow travellers, David Loader
The Reflective Principle — Future tense, David Loader
The Reflective Principle — Global Citizens, David Loader
The Reflective Principle — Like it or not My School does give us data on schools, David Loader
The Reflective Principle — Plan for the Future, David Loader
The ripple effect, Steve Holden
The science of learning, Geoff Masters
The shades of grey of cyberbullying in Australian schools, Wendy Goff
The status of education and its consequences for educational research: An anthropological exploration, Catherine L. Scott
The utility of general self-esteem and domain-specific self-concepts: Their influence on Indigenous and non-Indigenous students’ educational outcomes, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Virginia O'Rourke, and Rhonda G. Craven
The write stuff, Alan Wright
Trail of the Engagement Matrix - Component 1 - the effectiveness of labels: report, Petra Lietz, Mollie Tobin, and Sarah Buckley
Transforming or conforming?, John Nelson
Trick or treat: how modern PE is engaging a new generation, Jon Perry
Up and at ’em The research on healthy eating and activity, Nadia Corsini
Village schools in England: At the heart of their community?, Carl Bagley and Sam Hillyard
Weight loss and learning? There is a link, Brian Brennan
Who's in your school library?, Georgia Phillips
Women principals in small schools in South Africa, Jacky Lumby and Cristina Azaola
Working on a dream: Educational returns from off-campus paid work, Hamish Coates
Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, Nola Purdie, Pat Dudgeon, and Roz Walker
Work-life balance: Stop and smell the roses, Robyn Collins
Workplace psychos and how to deal with them, Wendy Evans
Your teaching career: Job seeking, Roslyn McLennan