Literacy Education in School : Research perspectives from the past, for the...
AER 52 aims to expand our understanding of the nature of literacy at a time when public and private lives have become increasingly literacy-dependent, and literacy demands more complex and...
View ArticleThe Leadership Challenge : Improving learning in schools
AER 53 elaborates on issues raised by the ACER Research Conference 2007: The Leadership Challenge - Improving learning in schools. This conference was significant in that it identified leadership as...
View ArticleRe-Imagining Science Education : Engaging students in science for Australia's...
AER 50 calls for major curriculum reform, arguing that the time has passed for tinkering around the edges of a science curriculum that belongs to the past. Using research presented at ACER's Research...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Education : Pathways to quality and equity for all children
AER 50 calls for a coherent, long-term national action plan and timeline to develop and implement an integrated, well-funded, regulated and managed system of early childhood education and care with...
View ArticleUsing Data to Support Learning in Schools: Students, teachers, systems
AER 49 examines the issues raised by the ACER Research Conference 2005: Using Data to Support Learning. It analyses the conference papers, distils the essence of the conference 'conversations', and...
View ArticleBalancing Approaches : Revisiting the educational psychology research on...
In most Australian schools, there are significant numbers of students who are failing to learn effectively. They underachieve in all or some of the basic skill areas of the curriculum. Concerns...
View ArticleThe Case for Change : A review of contemporary research on Indigenous...
AER 47 examines the research evidence underpinning current government policy developed over the last two decades in an attempt to improve the educational outcomes of indigenous students. It reviews...
View ArticleSecond Languages and Australian Schooling
It is an underlying principle of AER 54 that active efforts should be made to cultivate the latent bilingual potential within Australia’s wider population and that this should be linked to major...
View ArticleTouching the Future : Building skills for life and work
AER 55 explores the goals of Australian education and of how schools should prepare young people for work and life. Section 1 provides an overview, discussing the nature of broad social and economic...
View ArticleBuilding Innovation : Learning with technologies
AER 56 explores national and international policy priorities for building students' innovation capabilities through information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. Section 1...
View ArticleThe Arts and Australian education: Realising potential
AER 58 surveys the international and national research on the role and effect of arts-rich programming in schools and in the broader community, and examines the policies and practices that inhibit or...
View ArticleReforming Educational Assessment: Imperatives, principles and challenges
AER 57 reviews research into assessment, especially in schools; it analyses the pivotal role of assessment in learning and argues for its reconceptualisation by practitioners and policy makers to...
View ArticleTeaching Mathematics: Using research-informed strategies
AER 59 reviews research into aspects of mathematics teaching, focusing on issues relevant to Australian mathematics teachers, to those who support them, and also to those who make policy decisions...
View ArticleImperatives in Schools Funding: Equity, sustainability and achievement
AER 60 takes the 2011 Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling as a vantage point, from which to consider the national funding of schools in Australia, past and future. Section 1 outlines the...
View ArticleBuilding quality in teaching and teacher education
AER 61 discusses the contemporary influences on initial teacher education, with particular attention to the notion of quality teaching, and the role of teacher education and teacher educators in the...
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