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Assessment and Teaching of Foundational Skills for Diverse Learners: The Students with Additional Needs Program (for schools)
Project Contact:
Jayne Johnston
This program of research commenced in 2007 at the Assessment Research Centre under the leadership of Professor Patrick Griffin, and since then has drawn on the collaborative work of many educators, researchers, and administrators who share a commitment to supporting every student's right to learn.To support all students as learners, we must first provide their teachers and schools with access to high quality, research-based advice,…
Assessment for Graduate Teaching
The project aims to develop a Teaching Performance Assessment that can be implemented in all Australian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) institutions.
Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Centre (ACTRC), a collaboration with the University of the Philippines
Project Lead:
Professor Field Rickards
The Assessment Research Centre, together with the University of the Philippines, has established the Assessment Curriculum and Technology Research Centre (ACTRC) as a joint research centre based in Quezon City, Philippines. Supported by the Australian Government, the ACTRC advises and informs an ambitious reform of the Philippine system of education through innovative curriculum, assessment and technology research and implementation.The ACTRC plays an important transformative and…
Profiling Developmental Standards of Learning for Students with Additional Needs (SWANs)
Project Contact:
Jayne Johnston
Profiling the development of students with additional needs was designed to help teachers monitor and intervene accurately in their learning. Techniques of assessment and tailored intervention offered new insights to curriculum and teaching. The methodology had been developed over a 20-year period, tailored to competency-based assessment, and was applied in this project to assessment of students with a diverse range of disabilities and additional needs.…
Assessment & Evaluation Research Centre
The Assessment & Evaluation Research Centre (AERC) is dedicated to the advancement of assessment, measurement, and evaluation in various fields, with a primary focus on education.
Maths Online MOI and FDOI Evaluation
Funded by the Department of Education the AERC has been commissioned to validate and update current MOI and FDOI assessment tools to ensure valid assessment judgements.
Dream Gap Measurement Tool
The AERC has been contracted by Mattel to explore the feasibility of developing a measurement tool for monitoring the development of STEM identity in children aged 4 – 6 years old. The tool will define and conceptualise the stages of development of a positive STEM identity in the development of children aged 4 to 6, including with specific attention paid to how this development interacts…
Ngarrngga: Evaluation of First Nations in Education
First Nations in Education (FNE) is a compulsory subject (EDUC91047) within MGSE’s Master of Teaching. It was first offered in 2022. AERC was commissioned to undertake a two-year evaluation of the effectiveness of this subject. In 2022 we utilised a two-phase approach to the evaluation. In Phase one, the team designed, implemented, and analysed a mid-subject survey (MSS) for first-cohort students. In Phase 2 we…
Early Childhood Language and Literacy Practice Project
At the end of 2022 the AERC was the successful bidder, engaged by AERO to develop and validate the rubric-based tool for early learning educators and teachers that measures their use of evidence-based practice in the area of early childhood language and literacy practice (ECLLP).
Melbourne Dental School Construct Map Development
The Melbourne Dental School (MDS) is currently undertaking a curriculum and assessment review of the dentistry and oral health courses. This project provides technical expertise to MDS to support the development of construct maps that describe increasing levels of competence of MDS students as they move from novices up to the attainment of the Professional Competencies of the Newly Qualified Dentist and the Professional Competencies…
Provision of Robust Measures of Teacher Practice
The AERC was commissioned by Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) to refine, field test and conduct a validation of three tools developed by AERO. The tools are a survey of evidence use and evidence-based practice, formative assessment rubrics and explicit instruction rubrics.The validation of the tools will examine the extent to which each tool is an adequate and appropriate measure for the three purposes intended…
Access for All Evaluation
The Access for All training program aims to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of mainstream health services for people with disability by raising awareness of disability and access needs among healthcare providers. The training is available online and is available to all mainstream health providers (such as GPs and dentists) and can be completed by both practitioners and administrative staff/management. The training is funded by…
Blue EDGE Program Evaluation
Blue EDGE is a program run by Blue Light Victoria that aims to build positive relationships between young people, their peers, and police, providing young people with tools to make healthy, safe decisions now and into the future. It is a twice weekly program run at selected Victorian high schools over eight weeks (one school term) for participating students. The AERC has been engaged by…
Community-Based Research Scheme
MASS (Mansfield Autism Statewide Service)The purpose of this project was to develop a program logic and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for the Mansfield Autism Practitioners (MAP) service. The MAP service provides home based practical support to families living with autism. Mansfield Autism Practitioners (MAPs) are available at times when families need support most, working outside of school hours to deliver support at key times…
DASH! (Dynamic Active Safe Healthy)
DASH (Dynamic, Active, Safe, Healthy) is a new in-school, whole-class program being piloted by Blue Light Victoria in rural Victoria for primary school students in Years 5 and 6. DASH aims to increase the wellbeing of students and improve their community connectedness. It involves eight 90-minute sessions delivered weekly over a school term by a trained Blue Light Victoria facilitator, plus an online session for…
Evaluation of the VicHealth Local Government Partnership
In 2022, AERC (formerly the Centre for Program Evaluation) and the Centre for Healthy Policy were the successful bidders for the evaluation of the VicHealth Local Government Partnership Initiative. This project entails a three-year process and impact evaluation focussing on a place-based initiative to engage young people in the development of municipal health and wellbeing plans, along with supporting councils to adopt a systems-thinking lens…
Health Promoting Institution Implementation Guide and Framework
This is a research partnership with MCRI, LeapEd Services, UNICEF and Ministry of Health Education in Malaysia to build an implementation guide, training program and monitoring systems for implementing the global standards for health promoting schools.
No Limits Evaluation
Evaluation of oral language literacy intervention with primary schools and kindergartens in Mornington Peninsula.
Evaluation of Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE)
The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority have engaged AERC to conduct a 2 year evaluation of the Queensland Certificate of Education.Introduced in 2019, the new QCE system aims to deliver high quality senior secondary curriculum and assessment that prepares students for a range of post-school pathways.The University of Melbourne is evaluating the effectiveness of the QCE system to ensure it meets the needs of students,…
Ngarrngga Early Learning Needs Assessment
The Ngarrngga Project Team has approached the AERC to conduct a Needs Assessment of Indigenous Knowledges in the Early Learning sector, specifically the staff employed by the Early Childhood Management Services (ECMS).The Needs Assessment aims to investigate the current level of knowledge and attitudes towards embedding Indigenous Knowledges, languages and cultures in early childhood education in order to detail the professional learning needs of these…
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