Content Posted in 2014
ACER 2012 - 2013 annual report, ACER
ACER chief receives top honour, ACER
ACER Research Conference Proceedings (2014)
A clearer picture: Equity in higher education, ACER
Addressing educational disadvantage, Deirdre Jackson
Adult literacy and numeracy - what’s the story?, Juliette Mendelovits
A practical approach to micro reform, ACER
A Review of Victoria’s Developmental Learning Framework for School Leaders, Lawrence Ingvarson
Assessment: Getting to the Essence, Geoff N. Masters
Attracting the best and brightest to teaching, Lawrence C. Ingvarson
Australian Medical Assessment Collaboration: from proof of concept to proof of sustainability: final report 2014, Daniel Edwards and David Wilkinson
Australian problem-solving skills in context, Sue Thomson
Australian students prepare for digital future, Julian Fraillon
Australian teachers and the learning environment: An analysis of teacher response to TALIS 2013: Final Report, Chris Freeman, Kate O'Malley, and Frances Eveleigh
Australian teens show financial nous: PISA, Sue Thomson
A way forward in improving Indigenous learning, ACER
Beyond PISA : improving student outcomes, Geoff N. Masters
Building assessment expertise in Armenia, ACER
Building connections in South East Asia, Sarah Richardson
Buried or not? What’s happened to numeracy?, David Tout
Codebook: the LSAY 1996 Teacher Survey Technical Paper No. 13, Stephen Lamb
Collaboration to support quality teaching and learning, ACER
Comparison of PIAAC and PISA frameworks for numeracy and mathematical literacy, Iddo Gal and David Tout
Conference Dinner (6.30pm for a 7pm start), Lynn Arnold AO
Conference Opening, Christopher Pyne
Conference summary and next steps, Geoff N. Masters
Conversation with Prof. Geoff Masters AO, CEO, ACER and Ms Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia, Geoff N. Masters and Julia Gillard
Cunningham Library Update n.1, Jenny Trevitt and Liam Hensel
Cunningham Library Update n.2, Jenny Trevitt and Liam Hensel
Cunningham Library Update n.3, Jenny Trevitt and Liam Hensel
Deconstructing maths anxiety: Helping students to develop a positive attitude towards learning maths, Sarah Buckley
Defining success in remote schools, Gina Milgate
Determining the Quality of Assessment Items in Collaborations: Aspects to Discuss to Reach Agreement Developed by the Australian Medical Assessment Collaboration, Lambert Schuwirth and Jacob Pearce
Developing work-ready graduates, ACER
Don't subtract numeracy, David Tout
Educational assessment in Afghanistan, Maurice Walker
Educational progress for all, Ray J. Adams
Educational progress for all, Ray Adams
Financing the future: Australian students’ results in the PISA 2012 Financial Literacy assessment, Sue Thomson
Financing the future: Australian students’ results in the PISA 2012 Financial Literacy assessment
Focus Groups for informing AWPA’s Engineering Workforce Study 2014: Final Report, Daniel Edwards, Jacob Pearce, Kate Perkins, and Justin Brown
Getting to the essence of assessment, Geoff N. Masters
Global teaching snapshot, ACER
GPs rate postgraduate training experiences, ACER
Growth and ‘quality’ in higher education, Daniel Edwards and Ali Radloff
Growth in literacy and numeracy in the early years, Marion Meiers and Kate Reid
Horses for courses: Choice in adult LLN assessments, Jim Spithill and Philippa McLean
ICILS 2013: Australian students’ readiness for study, work and life in the digital age, Lisa De Bortoli, Sarah Buckley, Catherine Underwood, Elizabeth O'Grady, and Eveline Gebhardt
ICILS at a glance: Highlights from the full Australian report – Australian students’ readiness for study, work and life in the digital age, Lisa De Bortoli, Sarah Buckley, Catherine Underwood, Elizabeth O'Grady, and Eveline Gebhardt
Implementing Common Assessment: Lessons and Models from AMAC Developed by the Australian Medical Assessment Collaboration, Daniel Edwards
Improving engineering work and study, Daniel Edwards and Jacob Pearce
Improving learning in Abu Dhabi, ACER
Improving learning in China, ACER
Improving our understanding of the university experience in Japan, ACER
Improving the quality of medical education, Daniel Edwards
Independent evaluation of ASIC’s implementation of the Helping Our Kids Understand Finances initiative, Robert Simons
Indigenous Education Update 2 - January 2014
Indigenous Education Update 3 - October 2014
Indigenous Education Update edition 2 January 2014
Indigenous Education Update (No. 3) -- October 2014
Informing policy in developing countries, Petra Lietz and Mollie Tobin
International Developments (no.4) 2014
Is school reform working?, Geoff N. Masters
Learning, earning and yearning, Tony Dreise
Lessons from international assessments, David Tout
Listening to the school community, Gina Milgate
Literacy learning in the early years, Marion Meiers
LLEAP 2013 Survey Report : Leading by evidence to maximise the impact of philanthropy in education, Michelle Anderson and Emma Curtin
Location, location: Student achievement and regionality, Petra Lietz
Maths + confidence = higher scores for boys, Sue Thomson and Lisa De Bortoli
Measuring learning growth in a world of universal education, Ross Turner
National assessment in India, Maurice Walker
New directions for Australian Principal Certification, Lawrence Ingvarson
Pacific, Elizabeth Cassity
Pacific focus, Elizabeth Cassity
Planning for learning in the early years, Marion Meiers
Plenary 1 - Quality and Equity through Evidence-Based Practice, Geoff N. Masters
Plenary 2 - The Australian Early Development Index : Predictive validity, Sally Brinkman
Plenary 3 - Quality and Equity Issues Related to the Integration of Immigrant Students in Education, Petra Stanat and Aileen Edele
Plenary 4 - Indigenous and Rural Students: Double whammy or golden opportunity? Evidence from South Australia and around the world, Petra Lietz, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Lester-Irabinna Rigney, R. John Halsey, and Carol Aldous
Predicting success in medical studies, Daniel Edwards
Preparing for Life in a Digital Age: the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study International Report, Julian Fraillon, John Ainley, Wolfram Schulz, Tim Friedman, and Eveline Gebhardt
Professional certification for accomplished principals: directions for Australia, Lawrence Ingvarson
Promoting cross-border education – Provider mobility, Sarah Richardson and Ali Radloff
Promoting cross-border education – Researcher mobility, Sarah Richardson and Ali Radloff
Promoting cross-border education – Student mobility, Sarah Richardson and Ali Radloff
Promoting cross-border education – Virtual mobility, Sarah Richardson and Ali Radloff
Promoting Regional Education Services Integration: APEC University Associations Cross-Border Education Cooperation Workshop: Discussion Paper, Sarah Richardson and Ali Radloff
Quality education for all, ACER
Redesigning the secondary–tertiary interface: Queensland Review of Senior Assessment and Tertiary Entrance, Gabrielle Matters and Geoff N. Masters
Remote school's first graduates, ACER
Research Conference 2014 - Quality and Equity: What does research tell us?
Revisiting Indigenous primary school experiences, ACER
Revisiting Indigenous student engagement and retention, ACER
School audits lead to improvement, Robert Marshall
School comparison: The haves and the have nots, Kylie Hillman
Session A - Quality and Equity in Vocational Education and Training (VET), Sheldon Rothman, David Curtis, Lori Hocking, and David Tout
Session B - Negotiating Competing Education Values: Equality, equity, quality and Indigenous rights, Peter Buckskin, Gary Thomas, and Zane Ma Rhea
Session C - Learning before the School Years: Benefits for life, Joe Sparling, Susan Krieg, and Marion Meiers
Session D - Achieving Quality and Equity for Māori Secondary School Students in New Zealand, Mere Berryman
Session E - Perspectives on Quality and Equity from Large-Scale Assessment Studies, John Ainley and Eveline Gebhardt
Session F - School Attendance: Equities and inequities in growth trajectories of academic performance, Stephen Zubrick
Session G - Cooperative Learning: The behavioural and neurological markers that help to explain its success, Robyn Gillies and Ross Cunnington
Session H - Bubalamai Bawa Gumada (Healing the Wounds of the Heart): The search for resiliency against racism for Aboriginal Australian students, Gawain Bodkin-Andrews and Rhonda Craven
Session I - Gender and Mathematics: Quality and equity, Sue Thomson
Session J - Early Bird Catches the Worm: The causal impact of pre-school participation and teacher qualifications on Year 3 NAPLAN cognitive tests, Diana Warren and John P. Haisken-DeNew
Session K - Educational Disadvantage in Regional and Rural Schools, Stephen Lamb, Sara Glover, and Anne Walstab
Session M - Towards Quality and Equity: The case for quality teaching rounds, Jenny Gore
Session N - Unpacking Educational Inequality in the Northern Territory, Sven Silburn, J McKenzie, S Guthridge, L Li, and S Q. Li
Session O - Students' Use of Good Quality Learning Strategies: A multi-level model of change over five years of secondary school, Helen Askell-Williams and Michael J. Lawson
Sharing research and professional knowledge, ACER
Shoulder to Shoulder : Information for Aboriginal families who have a child or young person with a disability, Gina Milgate
Snapshots issue 1: How engaged are Australian Year 4 students in their reading lessons?, Nicole Wernert
Snapshots issue 2: Excellence and equity, Sue Thomson
Snapshots issue 3: Equity and effectiveness, Sue Thomson and Kylie Hillman
Snapshots issue 4: Boys, girls and mathematics, Lisa De Bortoli
Staff in Australia’s schools 2013: Main report on the survey, Phillip McKenzie, Paul R. Weldon, Glenn Rowley, Martin Murphy, and Julie McMillan
STEM growth: Getting students interested in the sciences, Deirdre Jackson
Stretching to reach high standards, Geoff N. Masters
Student assessments in India, Richa Jain
Successful Sustainable Literacy practice for Indigenous Students, Nola Purdie
Supporting educational progress for all learners, Peter McGuckian
Supporting Indigenous educational researchers, ACER
Support school-community partnerships – for students and our future, Geoff N. Masters
Taking stock of the teacher workforce, Paul R. Weldon and Glenn Rowley
Teach for Australia Pathway: Evaluation Report Phase 3 of 3, Paul R. Weldon, Phillip McKenzie, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, and Kate Reid
The ‘essence’ of effective teaching, ACER
The failure of incentives to drive school improvement, ACER
The impact of financial support on university deferral, ACER
The path to school system improvement, ACER
The performance of students in the Australian Capital Territory on PISA: Report to the ACT Department of Education and Training, Sue Thomson and Lisa De Bortoli
The post-school transitions of Indigenous learners, ACER
Thinking it through: Australian students’ skills in creative problem solving, Lisa De Bortoli and Greg Macaskill
Thinking it through: Australian students’ skills in creative problem solving
Towards a ‘good life’ for children in their middle years, Petra Lietz
Trusting teacher judgements, ACER
Two Way Teaching and Learning: Toward Culturally Reflective and Relevant Education, Nola Purdie, Gina Milgate, and Hannah Rachel Bell
Understanding equity through research data, John Ainley
Unfinished business : PISA shows Indigenous youth are being left behind, Tony Dreise and Sue Thomson
Using data to improve learning, ACER
Using student assessment to improve teaching, Martina Bovell
Welcome to Country, Frank Wanganeen
Why A to E grades paint the wrong picture, Geoff N. Masters