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Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Monitoring Learning

2008

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A Longitudinal Study Of Growth In Literacy And Numeracy In The Primary School Years, Marion Meiers Sep 2008

A Longitudinal Study Of Growth In Literacy And Numeracy In The Primary School Years, Marion Meiers

Monitoring Learning

This paper reports on a seven-year longitudinal study. In 1998 an extensive investigation of the nature of growth in literacy and numeracy across the years of primary school was established at ACER as a national longitudinal study. It was intended that scales of developing literacy and numeracy achievement would be developed within this study, making it possible to show growth from the first year at school until the end of primary school.


A Longitudinal Investigation Of Literacy Achievement And Development In The First Three Years Of School, Marion Meiers Aug 2008

A Longitudinal Investigation Of Literacy Achievement And Development In The First Three Years Of School, Marion Meiers

Monitoring Learning

This paper describes a longitudinal study of literacy development in the early years of schooling. Monitoring the development of children’s literacy learning in the early years of school poses challenges for educational researchers, including the need for appropriate strategies for identifying the full range of literacy knowledge and skills demonstrated by young learners. The seven-year national ACER Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Study (LLANS) followed the growth in literacy of a single cohort of students across the years of primary school (Meiers, Khoo et al, 2006). A key research question in this study was: “What is the nature of literacy development …