Discover: Education news and insights from ACER March 2025
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Our March 2025 newsletter contains resources to guide the use of AI in education, a fresh PISA analysis on Australian teenagers' maths skills, a discussion of the value of adaptive assessments, and our work with partners on early childhood development, system resilience and supporting countries to report on global minimum proficiency levels. Looking for webinars? It's all here.
ACER has developed an educators’ guide to ethical and effective use of AI. See how it was developed and how it can be used.
🕑 5-minute read
📰 AI and education, digital literacy, professional learning, school education
ACER has conducted its deepest dive yet into what Australian 15-year-olds knew and could do in maths in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2022.
🕑 10-minute read
📰 Numeracy, assessment, school education, student engagement.
A collaborative evaluation of a school readiness program targeted at children aged 0 to 3 shows its impact on parenting knowledge, caregiving skills and early childhood development.
🕑 3-minute read
📰 Early childhood, monitoring and evaluation
A recent 3-year study on Samoa’s education system, undertaken by ACER in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture, explores policies and practices that can mitigate disruptions to schooling and promote education system quality and resilience.
🕑 6-minute read
📰 Education and development, system transformation, literacy
Supporting Ghana to use national assessments for global reporting
ACER UK and the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO UK) are supporting countries to use their national assessments to report on global minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics (Sustainable Development Goal 4.1.1). Ghana's National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, an agency in the Ministry of Education, is blazing the trail. | 🕑 4-minute read
Understanding the science behind adaptive testing
In a recent webinar for international schools, Dr Jarrod Hingston shared his expertise on how adaptive assessments work and the best ways to use them. | 🕑 6-minute read
Building resilience and careers in agriculture
An ACER evaluation has shown how an Australian program has successfully contributed to reshaping perceptions of agricultural careers while supporting industry recovery in the wake of natural disasters. | 🕑 6-minute read
ACER update
Free webinars unpacking research and resources for the classroom
ACER is offering a series of free webinars to share expertise and ACER resources developed through rigorous research as part of our agenda to ensure learners can learn successfully and be well prepared for life in a complex world.
A 1-hour webinar on integrating AI in education was held this week, with ACER experts sharing guiding principles and practical examples for using AI to improve teaching and learning. This webinar introduced the PATH principles recently developed by ACER.
The next webinar on the calendar will show how to teach and assess the 5 essential skills that have the highest impact on student learning. This webinar will unpack ACER’s free, evidence-based frameworks for critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication and self-regulation, and share insights on how to assess all 5 using problem-based learning.
Find out more and see what's next in the Transforming learning: ACER webinar series.
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