Discover: Education news and insights from ACER March 2024
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Strategies to promote mathematics are central to a new toolkit which could be a gamechanger in schools, and for the wider community.
🕑 6-minute read
📰 Numeracy, school education, STEM, student engagement
ACER is working with partners to advance girls' and women's education in the ASEAN region.
🕑 6-minute read
📰 Education and development, foundational learning, girls education, school education
ACER is investigating how jurisdictions can be helped to develop coherent, equitable learning systems. A new podcast shows how some of the world's top-performing school systems are doing this.
🕑 5-minute read
📰 School education, school improvement
International studies show that girls are more politically informed and active at school than boys, and more concerned about issues like the environment and equal rights. Despite this, girls show a lack of political ambition.
🕑 7-minute read
📰 21st century skills, school education, wellbeing
Inspiring alumni continue to lead sustainable development
A new longitudinal study is following 6 Australia Awards alumni to examine the impact of their scholarship on themselves and their home country. | 🕑 7-minute read
Improving assessment of clinical competence
ACER researchers presented a diverse array of insightful presentations, papers and workshops at Ottawa 2024 – the premier conference about transforming healthcare through excellence in assessment and evaluation. | 🕑 10-minute read
Classroom strategies: Modelling the PAT Teaching Resources Centre
In a recent webinar session, Marc Kralj and Jana Gabriel provided practical guidance on how to connect assessment results to classroom practice with the PAT Teaching Resources Centre. | 🕑 6-minute read
How teachers in Labschool Cibubur benefit from PAT Matematika
Labschool Cibubur has asked ACER Indonesia to help all teachers carry out diagnostic assessments for their students at the elementary and middle school levels. | 🕑 6-minute read
Teaching literacy skills to students
Professional development can help teachers better support students in developing literacy skills. This article shares a model of assessment-informed professional development used in one of our IBT schools in India. | 🕑 4-minute read
Q&A with Helen Timperley, author of Leading Professional Conversations
A new book published by ACER is aimed at improving the impact of professional learning conversations between school leaders and teachers. | 🕑 6-minute read
Fostering happiness and achievement among students: How can we make it work?
A recent webinar, convened by ACER together with the Indonesian Educational Evaluation Association (HEPI), and the Indonesian Psychometric Association (APSIMETRI), explored the intricate connection between students' wellbeing, academic achievement, and prospects | 🕑 4-minute read
ACER update
Training in Foundations in Applied Measurement in Education
ACER is offering a variety of options for individuals to undertake training in educational measurement. Foundations in Applied Measurement in Education (FAME) is a suite of 8 online short courses which provide participants with the theoretical and practical underpinnings to apply item response theory (IRT) to analyse data from small-scale assessments and examinations through to large-scale survey assessments using ACER ConQuest® software.
Different bundle options are available for individuals with the first course set to start in May of this year. Visit our website to find our more or enrol.
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