Literacy and numeracy

Literacy and numeracy

 
ACER conducts literacy and numeracy research to inform reviews, assessments and studies, as well as addressing issues including mathematics anxiety and engagement.

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Submissions from 2015

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Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth : Class 6 girls and boys in Afghanistan 2013, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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MTEG Afghanistan 2013 : Preliminary database for Grade 6, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Assessment to action: New thinking from India, Rukmini Banerji

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Investing in Workforce Literacy Pays: Building Employer Commitment to Workplace Language, Literacy and Numeracy Programs, Justin Brown, Michael Taylor, Phillip McKenzie, and Kate Perkins

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School Improvement Episode 5: Numeracy outcomes, Jo Earp

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The Research Files Episode 15: The impact of dads reading to children, Jo Earp

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Top borrowed library books and series, Jo Earp

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Research Files Special: Geoff Masters, Val Shute, Rukmini Banerji, Jo Earp and Danielle Meloney

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Work Integrated Learning in STEM in Australian Universities: Final report: Submitted to the Office of the Chief Scientist, Daniel Edwards, Kate Perkins, Jacob Pearce, and Jennifer Hong

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Assessing general capabilities, Julian Fraillon and Juliette Mendelovits

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Bullying in Australian schools, Kylie Hillman

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Class 6 proficiency in Afghanistan 2013: Outcomes of a learning assessment of mathematical, reading and writing literacy, Tom Lumley, Juliette Mendelovits, Rachel Stanyon, Ross Turner, and Maurice Walker

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Addressing the learning needs of all students, Geoff N. Masters

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Equipping students for life after school, Geoff N. Masters

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School improvement on Australia’s horizon, Geoff N. Masters

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Infographic: Formats of writing outside school, Danielle Meloney

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Reading for fun, Danielle Meloney

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Long-term impact: Early childhood education in the Philippines, Rachel Parker

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Focused: Why a teaching team is greater than the sum of its parts, Ray Peck

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Class 6 girls and boys in Afghanistan 2013 : comparing outcomes of girls and boys from a learning assessment of mathematical, reading and writing literacy, Alla Routitsky, Rachel Stanyon, and Maurice Walker

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Measuring learning: Why we need to work together, Jeaniene Spink

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Assessing young children's literacy and mathematics understandings, Collette Taylor, Joanne Mulligan, Maurice Walker, Prue Anderson, and Marion Meiers

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Financial literacy critical for future, Sue Thomson

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Taking stock of progress in ICT literacy, Sue Thomson

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PISA: Behind the headlines and past the rankings, Sue Thomson and Chris Wardlaw

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Assessing maths literacy: Learning from the PISA experience, Ross Turner

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The cure for early grades assessment difficulties? Take a tablet, Maurice Walker

Submissions from 2014

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Indigenous Education Update 2 - January 2014

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A way forward in improving Indigenous learning, ACER

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Revisiting Indigenous primary school experiences, ACER

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Uwezo: Monitoring children’s competencies in East Africa, ACER

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The Early Grade Reading Assessment: Assessing children's acquisition of basic literacy skills in developing countries (superseded version), Australian Council for Educational Research

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The Latin-American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education: Measuring and comparing educational quality in Latin America (superseded version), Australian Council for Educational Research

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The Annual Status of Education Report survey: Monitoring learning levels of children in rural India, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Thinking it through: Australian students’ skills in creative problem solving, Lisa De Bortoli and Greg Macaskill

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Unfinished business: PISA shows Indigenous youth are being left behind, Tony Dreise and Sue Thomson

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Online NAPLAN tests are just around the corner, Jo Earp

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School Improvement Episode 2: Neil Lloyd, literacy and numeracy skills gaps, Jo Earp

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Comparison of PIAAC and PISA frameworks for numeracy and mathematical literacy, Iddo Gal and David Tout

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STEM growth: Getting students interested in the sciences, Deirdre Jackson

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ACER Senior Years Learning Framework: Standard Level Course Manual, Doug McCurry

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Literacy learning in the early years, Marion Meiers

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Growth in literacy and numeracy in the early years, Marion Meiers and Kate Reid

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What are young people reading outside class?, Danielle Meloney

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Adult literacy and numeracy - what’s the story?, Juliette Mendelovits

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Reducing mathematics anxiety, Catherine Pearn

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Maths + confidence = higher scores for boys, Sue Thomson and Lisa De Bortoli

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Buried or not? What’s happened to numeracy?, David Tout

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Don't subtract numeracy, David Tout

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Lessons from international assessments, David Tout

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Described proficiency scales and learning metrics, Ross Turner

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The 'literacy' idea, Ross Turner

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Learning Metrics Partnership: a capacity support and policy strengthening initiative to develop and use common learning metrics for mathematics and reading, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and ACER

Submissions from 2013

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International Developments (No.3) 2013

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Indigenous student maths achievement in context, ACER

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Influences on children’s numeracy skills, John Ainley

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Informing policy and practice, John Ainley

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Measure for measure : a review of outcomes of school education in Australia, John Ainley and Eveline Gebhardt

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Solomon Islands Standardised Tests of Achievement (SISTA). English and Mathematics. Year 4 and Year 6. Report 1 Main Study 2013, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Learning and fearing mathematics, Sarah Buckley and Kate Reid

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Footprints in Time : Who Am I? and Renfrew Word Finding Vocabulary Test : report on wave 2 data, Sarah Buckley, Catherine Underwood, and Nola Purdie

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The Processes of Change on Learning Literacy and Numeracy in South Australian Primary Schools, I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan and Carol Aldous

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Making a difference : improving outcomes for Indigenous learners, Michele Lonsdale

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Literacy and numeracy interventions in the early years of schooling : a literature review : report to the Ministerial Advisory Group on Literacy and Numeracy, Marion Meiers, Kate Reid, Phillip McKenzie, and Suzanne Mellor

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Literacy and the most marginalised children, Megan Robinson

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Declining PISA outcomes : time to stop the slide, Sue Thomson

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PISA 2012 : how Australia measures up : the PISA 2012 assessment of students’ mathematical, scientific and reading literacy, Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, and Sarah Buckley

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PISA in brief : highlights from the full Australian report : PISA 2012 : how Australia measures up, Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, and Sarah Buckley

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A Teacher's Guide to PISA Mathematical Literacy, Sue Thomson, Kylie Hillman, and Lisa De Bortoli

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A Teacher's Guide to PISA Reading Literacy, Sue Thomson, Kylie Hillman, and Lisa De Bortoli

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Questioning the standards of literacy and numeracy, David Tout and Juliette Mendelovits

Submissions from 2012

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Vocational Update (No. 1) -- July 2012

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Digital assessments of early learning, Danielle Anzai

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Children’s numeracy skills, Galina Daraganova and John Ainley

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The real power of parental reading aloud : exploring the affective and attentional dimensions, Kit Lawson

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How well do young people deal with contradictory and unreliable information on line? What the PISA digital reading assessment tells us, Tom Lumley and Juliette Mendelovits

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Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), Philippa McLean, Kate Perkins, David Tout, Kath Brewer, and Linda Wyse

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Print and digital reading in PISA 2009 : comparison and contrast, Juliette Mendelovits, Dara Ramalingam, and Tom Lumley

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Compulsory literacy and numeracy exit standards for senior secondary students : the right direction for Australia?, Suzanne Rice, Esther Care, and Patrick Griffin

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Preparing Australian students for the digital world : results from the PISA 2009 Digital Reading Literacy Assessment, Sue Thomson and Lisa De Bortoli

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Monitoring Australian Year 8 student achievement internationally : TIMSS 2011, Sue Thomson, Kylie Hillman, and Nicole Wernert

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Some drivers of test item difficulty in mathematics, Ross Turner

Submissions from 2011

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International Schools' Assessment Program

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Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Final Evaluation Report: Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (SILA) Project, Robert Hattam, Lyn Kerkham, John Walsh, Jenny Barnett, Dianne Bills, Petra Lietz, and Mollie Tobin

Research-based literacy and numeracy resource for Indigenous students., Margaret James and Cath Pearn

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Improving Educational Outcomes in the Northern Territory : preliminary advice to the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training, with a particular focus on the ongoing improvement of students’ literacy and numeracy achievements, Geoff N. Masters

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Numeracy, Mathematics and Indigenous Learners: Not the same old thing., Caty Morris and Chris Matthews

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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

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Literacy and Numeracy Learning: What works for young Indigenous students? Lessons from the Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Study for Indigenous Children., Kate Reid

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Enhancing education, Sheldon Rothman, David Slattery, Sarah Buckley, and John Ainley

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Teaching Mathematics: Using research-informed strategies, Peter Sullivan

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Performance Comparison between IB School Students and Non-IB School Students on the International Schools’ Assessment (ISA) and on the Social and Emotional Wellbeing Questionnaire, Ling Tan and Yan Bibby

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Challenges for Australian education, Sue Thomson

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PISA 2009 Plus Results : Performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science for 10 additional participants, Maurice Walker

Submissions from 2010

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Success against the odds, Kylie Hillman

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QEPR Review of progress: Review of progress towards implementing the government response to the Queensland Education Performance Review and related state school initiatives in literacy, numeracy and science, Geoff N. Masters

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The Digest edition 2010/2 : Language in the mathematics classroom, Marion Meiers and Jenny Trevitt

Mathematics or Numeracy – what are we actually talking about here? Does it matter?, Will Morony

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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