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Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Teacher columnist – Geoff Masters

2014

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Assessing End-Of-School Attainment, Geoff N. Masters Nov 2014

Assessing End-Of-School Attainment, Geoff N. Masters

Teacher columnist – Geoff Masters

Is there a ‘best’ way to establish the levels of knowledge, understanding and skill that students have attained in a subject by the end of Year 12?


Incentives - An Ineffective School Improvement Strategy?, Geoff N. Masters Oct 2014

Incentives - An Ineffective School Improvement Strategy?, Geoff N. Masters

Teacher columnist – Geoff Masters

By the turn of the century, the observation had been made in many countries that substantial increases in expenditure on schools had failed to deliver measurable improvements in student performance. But just how effective are incentives as an improvement strategy?