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Education & Development

Supporting assessment of teaching and learning of 21st century skills

13 August 2018

A new program is helping education stakeholders in Asia to develop and use assessment tools to improve teaching and student learning of 21st century skills. ACER Research Fellow Sally Robertson reports.

Assessment, Education & Development

Supporting Timor-Leste’s capacity to assess teaching and learning

07 August 2018

A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project to evaluate Timor-Leste’s educational assessment capabilities has been completed, reports ACER Research Fellow Debbie Wong.

Assessment, School, Education & Development

School

Who has the best access to teachers?

06 August 2018

The provision of teachers to advantaged and disadvantaged students in Australia needs further consideration, as Dr Sue Thomson discusses in this edited version of her latest column for Teacher.

Assessment, School

School

Fewer teenagers plan on further study, with disadvantaged teens most at risk

01 August 2018

A smaller proportion of Australian teenagers are expecting to go to university or TAFE than they did 15 years ago, according to new research.

Student Engagement, Survey, School, Higher Education

School

A new tool to monitor whole-school mental health promotion

16 July 2018

Research shows that the best student mental health outcomes happen when wellbeing programs are applied school-wide, yet there has been no simple, brief measure of implementation until now, reports ACER's Katherine Dix.

Student Engagement, Survey, School

Indigenous