Monday 4 August 2014 | 2014 - Quality and Equity: What does research tell us?

Monday 4 August 2014
Monday, August 4th
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2014
8:00 AM	Registration 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM	Welcome to Country Frank Wanganeen 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
9:05 AM	Conference Opening Christopher Pyne, Federal Minister for Education 9:05 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM	Plenary 1 - Quality and Equity through Evidence-Based Practice Geoff N. Masters, ACER 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Plenary 1
10:45 AM	Morning Tea 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM	Session D - Achieving Quality and Equity for Māori Secondary School Students in New Zealand Mere Berryman, University of Waikato 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Session Block 1
11:15 AM	Session E - Perspectives on Quality and Equity from Large-Scale Assessment Studies John Ainley, ACER Eveline Gebhardt, ACER 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Session Block 1
11:15 AM	Session F - School Attendance: Equities and inequities in growth trajectories of academic performance Stephen Zubrick, University of Western Australia 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Session Block 1
11:15 AM	Session G - Cooperative Learning: The behavioural and neurological markers that help to explain its success Robyn Gillies, University of Queensland and the Science of Learning Research Centre Ross Cunnington, University of Queensland and the Science of Learning Research Centre 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Concurrent Session Block 1
12:30 PM	Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM	Plenary 2 - The Australian Early Development Index : Predictive validity Sally Brinkman, Fraser Mustard Centre and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (Adelaide) 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Plenary 2
2:45 PM	Session H - Bubalamai Bawa Gumada (Healing the Wounds of the Heart): The search for resiliency against racism for Aboriginal Australian students Gawain Bodkin-Andrews, Macquarie University Rhonda Craven, Australian Catholic University 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Block 2
2:45 PM	Session I - Gender and Mathematics: Quality and equity Sue Thomson, ACER and Science of Learning Research Centre 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Block 2
2:45 PM	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, Australian Institute of Family Studies John P. Haisken-DeNew, University of Melbourne 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Block 2
2:45 PM	Session K - Educational Disadvantage in Regional and Rural Schools Stephen Lamb, Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University Sara Glover, Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University Anne Walstab, Victoria University 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Session Block 2
6:30 PM	Conference Dinner (6.30pm for a 7pm start) Lynn Arnold AO Adelaide Convention Centre 6:30 PM Speaker: Dr Lynn Arnold AO (Personal perspectives on Quality and Equity)

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