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Teaching Practices That Improve Performance, Attainment And Engagement: Results From A Longitudinal Study Of High School Students In Nsw, Ian Mccarthy, Brianna Mccourt, Victoria Ikutegbe, Jin Zhou Aug 2018

Teaching Practices That Improve Performance, Attainment And Engagement: Results From A Longitudinal Study Of High School Students In Nsw, Ian Mccarthy, Brianna Mccourt, Victoria Ikutegbe, Jin Zhou

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

This report builds on a body of evidence showing the positive effect of teaching and classroom practices on engagement, wellbeing and academic outcomes. Using two student cohorts in NSW government schools, Years 7 to 9 and Years 10 to 12, we have quantified the effects of quality instruction and other effective classroom practices as drivers of student outcomes (see Figure 1, p. 54). A common theme across both cohorts was the positive impact on key academic outcomes of teachers having high expectations and appropriately challenging all their students (as measured through the NAPLAN tests and Year 12 completion). Modelling also …


Measuring Parent Engagement, Sheldon Rothman, Clare Ozolins, Jo Doyle Jun 2018

Measuring Parent Engagement, Sheldon Rothman, Clare Ozolins, Jo Doyle

Early Childhood Education

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), working with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY), undertook the task of creating a set of measures of parents’ engagement in their children’s learning. The aim was to develop a tool that individual schools could use to measure their efforts in parent engagement and monitor those efforts. A second aim was to use the data from the tool to examine the conceptual model of parent engagement previously published by ARACY and whether it fit with the data collected through the tool. The intended result was an evidence-informed definition of parent …


Higher Education: Practitioner Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2018

Higher Education: Practitioner Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Education Analytics Service

This Practitioner level module is designed to ensure staff members who engage with and lead policy dialogue with international and domestic partners are informed about pathways through higher education and strategies for investing in and ensuring the quality of higher education. It is recommended that staff complete the Higher Education: Foundation level module as background information to this Practitioner level module. Topics covered in this module include how higher education links with technical and vocational education and training (TVET), secondary education, workforce planning and lifelong learning; investment options for higher education; how higher education is financed, how it is quality …


The Australian Education System: Practitioner Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2018

The Australian Education System: Practitioner Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Education Analytics Service

This Practitioner level module is designed to ensure that Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) staff members who engage with and lead policy dialogue with international and domestic partners are informed about Australia's education and training system. It is recommended that staff complete the Australian Education System: Foundation level module as background information to this Practitioner level module. Topics covered include an overview of the structure of the Australian education system, how the system is financed, how Australian education compares with other countries, and Australian education tools and data sources.


Higher Education: Foundation Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2018

Higher Education: Foundation Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Education Analytics Service

The purpose of this module is to provide introductory information about the importance, structure, purpose, key issues and outcomes of higher education. It provides a foundation to engage in this topic and apply advice from staff with operational or expert levels of knowledge in education. On successful completion you will be able to be an informed participant in forums related to higher education.


The Australian Education System: Foundation Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2018

The Australian Education System: Foundation Level, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Education Analytics Service

The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of the Australian education system. It provides a foundation to engage in this topic and apply advice from staff with operational or expert levels of knowledge in education. On successful completion you will be able to be an informed participant in multi-stakeholder forums related to Australian education.