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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 …