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A Framework for building Relationships between Indigenous People and people and the University of Melbourne
Bernadette Murphy
Completed
A framework for enhancing resilience in development settings
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Affective encounters: Teaching and learning for schools and communities through museums and collections
Dr Dianne Mulcahy
An evidence-informed framework for enhancing wellbeing
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
ASQ-TRAK
Assessing and micro credentialing of Complex Competencies in the University of Melbourne Network of Schools
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
Assessment and credentialing: a practical alternative to the ATAR with Big Picture Schools
Jayne Johnston
Current
Assessment and Learning Partnerships
Pam Robertson
Completed
Assessment and Teaching of Foundational Skills for Diverse Learners: The Students with Additional Needs Program (for schools)
Jayne Johnston
Current
Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Centre (ACTRC), a collaboration with the University of the Philippines
Professor Field Rickards
Current
Assessment for Graduate Teaching
Professor Janet Clinton
Attuning to affect in museum and school education: Embodied knowledge and its capacities and effects
Dr Dianne Mulcahy
Completed
Beginning teachers’ developing clinical judgment: competencies, skills and attitudes
Teresa Angelico
Completed
ArtPlay: Behind the Bright Orange Door
Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret
Berry Street Alumni Project
A/PROF Helen Stokes
Completed
Building a Bridge into Preschool in Remote Northern Territory Communities
Dr Jane Page
Current
Challenging the monolingual mindset – leveraging students’ out-of-classroom language practices for pedagogical innovation in the English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) classroom
Dr Yvette Slaughter
Completed
Chinese Teacher Training Centre Materials and Resources
Dr Yvette Slaughter
Completed
CLASS Observation Training program
Fiona Luck
Current
Competency based assessment reform in the Republic of Vietnam
Dr Cuc Nguyen
Current
Competency Based Education Professional Development for Teachers of Primary and Secondary Education (for the Vietnamese Ministry of Education)
Dr Cuc Nguyen
Completed
Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Gender: Mapping of Resource Materials on CSE and Gender
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Creating Connections
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Creating Meaningful, Participatory English Language Teaching Pedagogies for Refugee Women and Their Children
Dr Julie Choi
Current
Creative Problem Solving (for North Shore Coaching College)
Dr Zhonghua Zhang
Current
Creativity, Risk, and Content & Language Integrated Learning
A/PROF Russell Cross
Current
Curriculum Policies project
Kate O’Connor
Customised Program for Curriculum Leaders from Singapore (for the Ministry of Education, Singapore)
Dr Jane Strickland
Completed
Defining the Status of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young People
Prof. Johanna Wyn
Current
Designing Australian Schools
Professor Julie Willis
Determining implementation drivers in resilience education
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
Developing an ethical framework and web-application to study adolescent wellbeing
Dr Gavin Slemp
Current
Developing an instrument for measuring student well-being in schools
Dr Tan Chyuan Chin
Completed
Developing individual Wellbeing and Academic Plan
Prof. Lindsay Oades
Current
Discussion Paper – Social Emotional Learning Support for Students in Transition
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
E4Kids
Prof Collette Tayler
Early Childhood Learning in Museum Experiences
Assoc. Prof. Patricia Eadie
Current
Educating the Adolescent: An historical study of curriculum, counselling and citizenship in Australia, 1930s-1970s.
Professor Julie McLeod
Educating the Australian Adolescent
Professor Julie McLeod
Completed
Education Benalla Program Evaluation
A/Prof Helen Stokes
Completed
Effects of Positive Education during the critical post-school transition
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Current
Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances
Professor Jane Kenway
Enhancing adolescent mental health through positive education
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Completed
Enhancing desirability: supporting teacher candidates in their placements to succeed in rural schools
Dr Hernán Cuervo
Completed
Evaluate the impact of positive education on teachers and students in a sample of UAE public schools
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Current
Evaluation and review of assessment systems
Hilary Slater
Evaluation of Doxa Youth Foundation
Completed
Evaluation of Greater Shepparton Lighthouse ‘Conversations with Kids’ sub-program
A/PROF Helen Stokes
Completed
Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
Ms Anna Dabrowski
Completed
Evaluation of the MY Mentoring project
A/Prof Helen Stokes
Current
Evaluation of Vic Opera’s ‘Connecting the Classroom’ outreach program and three-year regional outreach project
Assoc. Prof. John Owen
Completed
Every Toddler Talking Research Evaluation
Assoc. Prof. Patricia Eadie
Current
Expansion of Early Abilities Based Learning and Educational Support (for the Victorian Department of Education and Training)
Jayne Johnston
Completed
Exploring teacher professional learning in a virtual environment
Dr Linda Ball
Factors affecting demand for higher level VET qualifications by students from low SES backgrounds and possible policy interventions to increase their participation in higher VET qualifications
Dr Mary Leahy
Completed
Factors enabling entry into and engagement with VET for young, early school leavers
Kira Clarke
Completed
Focus on learners: education experts to Government
Erin Dale
Formative Assessment
Pam Robertson
Current
Fostering rich and supportive learning environments for disadvantaged young people
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Completed
Gender identity in early childhood
Assoc. Prof. Kylie Smith
Current
General Ability, English and Mathematics tests (for the North Shore Coaching College)
Dr Zhonghua Zhang
Completed
Gippsland Micro-credentialing of Enterprise Skills - Phase 2
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
Girls Writing Together: Developing writing pedagogies for low language and literacy learners
Dr Julie Choi
Future
Greater Shepparton Lighthouse Community Education Project
A/PROF Helen Stokes
Completed
How language develops, what goes wrong and why it matters: Following the Early Language in Victoria Study to age 13
Sheena Reilly
Completed
IB’s Learner Profile: A comparative Study of Hong Kong, India and Australia
Professor Fazal Rizvi
Identifying individuals’ impact on collaboration in ICT environments (Early Career Grant)
Dr Claire Scoular
Completed
The Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) project
Associate Professor Wesley Imms
Improving assessment with intelligent automation
Narelle English
Completed
Improving children’s language, literacy and mental health: Evaluating the impact of the Classroom Promotion of Oral Language (CPOL)
Sharon Goldfeld
Current
Improving the participation of young people with chronic illness in triadic medical discussions about their health
Prof. Johanna Wyn
Completed
Independent Review of the Validation of the Foundation Skills Assessment Tool
Dr Rebekah Luo
Completed
Independent validation of assessment: Developing and piloting and external assessment model
Associate Professor Shelley Gillis
Completed
Innovative methodologies for gender research: colloquium and pilot research workshop
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Innovative partnerships for youth engagement in education and work
Prof. John Polesel
Completed
International Baccalaureate Programs: Longer term outcomes
Dr Katie Wright
Completed
Investigating literary knowledge in the making of English teachers
Dr Lucy Buzacott
Investigating quality teaching in the Victorian VET sector
Associate Professor Shelley Gillis
Completed
Keeping Connected: Young people, identity & schooling
Julianne Moss
Completed
Knowledge building across schooling and university
Professor Lyn Yates
Knowledge Building Project
Dr Peter Woelert
Completed
Latrobe Valley Microcredentialling Project (for the LaTrobe Valley Authority)
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
Leading country-based implementation of the Connect with Respect Gender-based violence prevention program
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Learner Profile Pilot Project
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
Learning Mathematics with Technology
Dr Lynda Ball
Learning to make it work: education, work and wellbeing in young adulthood
Prof. Johanna Wyn
Completed
Life Patterns
Dr Hernán Cuervo
Current
Literacy Assessment Project
Pam Robertson
Completed
Literacy Teaching Resource
Dr Carmel Sandiford
Current
Literate Practice in Factories of the Future: A Linguistic Ethnography
Professor Lesley Farrell
Current
Longitudinal Study of Learning Achievement of Students in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Professor Esther Care
Completed
Malaysian Student Tracer Study
Prof. John Polesel
Completed
Measuring individual and group performance in collaborative problem solving (ARC Discovery Grant)
Dr Zhonghua Zhang
Current
Minds@Play randomised controlled trial
Dr Jon Quach
Current
Modern technology and assessment and certification - introducing Ruby
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
My Safety App: Scoping a safety and communication app for children experiencing family violence
Assoc. Prof. Kylie Smith
Current
NAPLAN
Nicky Dulfer
Peace building and language
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco
Completed
Pedagogic Possibilities of Cosmopolitanism
Professor Fazal Rizvi
Pedagogic practices in new generation learning environments in Victorian government schools
Doctor Dianne Mulcahy
Peer Learning of Mandarin and English in a transnational learning space
Professor Fazal Rizvi
Privilege and disadvantage in Australian universities, and female postgraduate experience
Dr Maree Martinussen
Profiling Developmental Standards of Learning for Students with Additional Needs (SWANs)
Jayne Johnston
Completed
Program of evaluation of external assessment trials (for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority)
Dr Rebekah Luo
Completed
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Psychometrics and metrolytics
Dr Zhonghua Zhang
Current
Qualitative analysis of the positive leadership program
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Completed
Realising the potential of Australia’s high capacity students (ARC linkage grant with the Department of Education and Training)
Professor Lorraine Graham
Completed
ReMSTEP
Research and development of alternative to the ATAR with partners, the Australian Learning Lecture
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Current
Research and Evaluation of the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) in two mainstream schools
A/Prof Helen Stokes
Completed
Researching ArtPlay and Signal
Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret
Review of Large-Scale Assessments for use in the Philippines
Professor Esther Care
Completed
School-industry partnerships and the production of curriculum knowledge
Doctor Glenn Savage
Shedding light: Private RTO training for young early school leavers
Kira Clarke
Completed
Social and Emotional Learning in the Boarding Residence
Prof. Helen Cahill
Completed
Strengthening the capacity of ChildFund staff and partners on child and youth participation programming and working with young people
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
Student Wellbeing
Dr Tan Chyuan Chin
Current
Student Wellbeing Action Partnership
Michael Elliott
Completed
Teacher Agency Across Content and Language Integrated Spaces for Schooling
A/PROF Russell Cross
Current
Teacher Artmaker Project
Associate Professor Wesley Imms
Teacher Capability Assessment Tool (TCAT)
Prof. Janet Clinton
Current
Teachers’ application of arts rich practice: teaching in and through the arts
Susan Wright
Completed
Teachers’ professional statistical literacy
Associate Professor Robyn Pierce
Completed
Teaching Academies of Professional Practice
Current
Teaching Australia
Dr Lucy Buzacott
Teaching Tool for Kindergartens (Assessment for Learning Tool project)
Jayne Johnston
Current
Text Selection in the Senior English Curriculum
Dr Alexander Bacalja
Current
The ACCESS Program
Associate Professor Neryl Jeanneret
The Assessment Research Centre (ARC) Online Tools system
Nafisa Awwal
Current
The development of teaching and learning resources to support the delivery of Respectful Relationships
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
The Influence of Culture Factors in Positive Psychology Interventions
Dr Gavin Slemp
Current
The Kefayat Program: Competency based curriculum implementation in Saudi Arabia (for the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia)
Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan
Completed
The Y-Change Project
Prof. Helen Cahill
Current
The Young Learners Project
Renata Aliani
Completed
To labour on 'The Big Issue': homelessness and the construction of education and work
Doctor Jessica Gerrard
Training workshops on psychometrics for national and international clients
Dr Cuc Nguyen
Current
Understanding wellbeing and peak performance in Australian football
Prof. Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Current
Understanding Workforce Literacy in the Technologized Workplace
Prof. Lesley Farrell
Completed
Visible Classroom
Prof. Janet Clinton
Current
Vocational studies in school - does it matter if I'm a girl and if I'm poor?
Associate Professor John Polesel
Completed
Wellbeing & Youth Consultation Project - Maroondah City Council
Dr Tan Chyuan Chin
Completed
Wellbeing & Youth Consultation Project - Whitehorse City Council
Tan Chyuan Chin
Current
Wellbeing assessment
Associate Professor Peggy Kern
Completed
Women in the Scientific Research Workforce
Professor Lyn Yates
Women in the Scientific Research Workforce
Dr Robyn May
Completed
Workplace Literacy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Literacy 4.0 Project
Professor Lesley Farrell
Youth Wellbeing
Tan Chyuan Chin
Completed
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