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Learning Assessment Collaboration, Hamish Bennett Coates
Learning Assessment Collaboration, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This edition of ACER’s Higher Education Update charts advice and insights generated through recent work. The briefing explores R&D conducted to plan growth at the system level, looking at student growth projections, the supply of academics and student retention. It reviews new thinking about assessment collaborations and the measurement of interpersonal understanding. Student engagement and experience counts, and we showcase key outcomes from the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement. We chart contributions to system-level quality assurance and improvement, and preview a study that will track the tertiary achievement of International Baccalaureate (IB) graduates. In an increasingly borderless world, we take …
Improving Learning And Outcomes, Hamish Bennett Coates
Improving Learning And Outcomes, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
Higher education is growing in size and significance, driving a pressing need for more information and new insights into how systems, institutions and people learn and achieve. Progress comes through innovative practice, policy reform, and research. This edition of ACER’s Higher Education Update reviews recent contributions. Editorial support by Megan Robinson and Louise Reynolds. The Higher Education Update is published biannually by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
Outcomes On The Move, Hamish Bennett Coates
Outcomes On The Move, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This briefing updates research and assessments conducted over the last six months that have helped institutions, individuals and governments better understand higher education growth and outcomes. It reviews recent contributions on testing learning, educating academics, boosting learning, and engaging learners. The briefing provides an update on ACER’s involvement in the OECD’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO), on work underway to assess generic and medical capabilities, and on comparing graduate outcomes internationally. Editorial support by Megan Robinson and Louise Reynolds. The Higher Education Update is published biannually by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
The Real Academic Revolution : Why We Need To Reconceptualise Australia's Future Workforce, And Eight Possible Strategies For How To Go About This, Hamish Bennett Coates, Leo Goedegebuure
The Real Academic Revolution : Why We Need To Reconceptualise Australia's Future Workforce, And Eight Possible Strategies For How To Go About This, Hamish Bennett Coates, Leo Goedegebuure
Professor Hamish Coates
Academic work and its associated profession make substantial contributions to the socio-economic development of Australia. But rarely is the work or the profession itself front-page news. This needs to change, partly because of the growing significance of academic work, and partly because of diverse pressures facing universities and its professional workforce. The growing significance of the academic profession is juxtaposed, almost in perfect counterpoint, by its shrinking capacity.
Building Research And Learning Capacity, Hamish Bennett Coates
Building Research And Learning Capacity, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This edition of the Higher Education Update reports on ACER’s work to assist institutions and systems measure learner and graduate capability, plan the research workforce, set and monitor educational standards, and design system-wide policies. A story in this update reports on national research on the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) that demonstrated the test’s capacity to identify whether people have the ability to succeed in higher education. The Higher education update is published by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Improving Higher Education Through Research, Hamish Bennett Coates
Improving Higher Education Through Research, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This edition provides an overview of areas such as selecting students for success; selecting and attracting international students; engaging and retaining students; developing the academic workforce; and quality standards and outcomes. It seeks to stimulate reflection on how people engage with study – reporting findings from the most extensive study yet of undergraduate students, and how we can design and implement new approaches to quality assurance and improvement. The Higher education update is published by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
Stimulating Aspirations, Engagement And High-Quality Outcomes, Hamish Bennett Coates
Stimulating Aspirations, Engagement And High-Quality Outcomes, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This fourth edition of ACER’s Higher Education Update samples our recent work on academic standards, on leadership and academic work, on tracking outcomes, and on identifying people who have the talent to succeed. This update reports on a package of survey resources deployed for use by all training providers to assist with quality assurance. An article reviews a recently released discussion paper prepared to stimulate conversation about setting and monitoring academic standards. This edition examines a landmark recent study of the pathways taken by bachelor degree graduates five years after course completion, on work to monitor the supply and demand …
Engaging Students For Success : Australasian Student Engagement Report, Hamish Bennett Coates
Engaging Students For Success : Australasian Student Engagement Report, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
ACER produces AUSSE Institution Reports for participating universities, providing details about the responses from students in their institution and selected benchmark groups. These reports provide a basis for publication and presentation of analyses within higher education communities, at conferences, and in magazines and journals. ACER also produces this Australasian Student Engagement Report (ASER), a series of AUSSE Research Briefings, and a series of AUSSE Enhancement Guides. These public documents are intended to convey general results to wider audiences.
Charting Growth, Outcomes And Change, Hamish Bennett Coates
Charting Growth, Outcomes And Change, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This update provides an overview of two related projects which have researched participation in science, mathematics and technology in Australian education, and the employment demand and outcomes for graduates with higher degree research qualifications in the science and mathematics fields. It includes a story on the Online Leadership Learning System (OLLS) being developed by the University of Western Sydney and ACER with a grant from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. This update provides a quick snapshot of ACER’s consultative design of a national Tertiary Engineering Capability Assessment (TECA), and of patterns emerging from 2008 AUSSE. A briefing is given …
Leading, Engaging, Selecting And Designing, Hamish Bennett Coates
Leading, Engaging, Selecting And Designing, Hamish Bennett Coates
Professor Hamish Coates
This first edition reviews recent work in the areas of higher education leadership, evaluation, student selection, and in the design of educational standards and processes. Higher education update is published by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)