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Diving Deeper With Assessment, Hilary Hollingsworth
Diving Deeper With Assessment, Hilary Hollingsworth
Dr Hilary Hollingsworth
ACER is helping educators to understand and implement assessment practices for positive classroom change and improved learning.
Redefining Teaching And Learning In Educational Administration, Connie Fulmer
Redefining Teaching And Learning In Educational Administration, Connie Fulmer
Connie L. Fulmer
Presents assumptions and components of an experiential learning model to demonstrate the transformation of traditional educational leadership program delivery models. Two examples of experientially-based course projects are presented to illustrate teaching and learning as a transactional process of creating personal knowledge. (SLD)
Towards A Unified Theory Of Assessment, Geoff Masters
Towards A Unified Theory Of Assessment, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Attempts to categorise educational assessments as either ‘formative’ or ‘summative’ no longer serve us well and the time has come to develop a more unified theory of assessment.
Same Year, Same School, Same Curriculum: Different Mathematics Results, Catherine Pearn
Same Year, Same School, Same Curriculum: Different Mathematics Results, Catherine Pearn
Catherine Pearn
Year 4 students from a large metropolitan school in Melbourne were tested using the One Minute Tests of Basic Number Facts and a paper and pencil Number Screening Test developed by the author and colleagues. Observation of classes during the assessment procedures highlighted the vast difference in the students’ speed and accuracy when recalling basic facts and the types of strategies they used when solving whole number arithmetic tasks. When the results were analysed there were differences noted in the class results and when the results were presented to the teachers their reactions to these results varied considerably. This paper …
A Cross-Institutional Initiative In Digital Assessment, Anne-Marie Chase, Diane Robbie, Bella Ross, Ekaterina Pechenkina
A Cross-Institutional Initiative In Digital Assessment, Anne-Marie Chase, Diane Robbie, Bella Ross, Ekaterina Pechenkina
Dr Anne-Marie Chase
Year-Level Expectations Can Impede Learning, Expert Warns, Geoff Masters
Year-Level Expectations Can Impede Learning, Expert Warns, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Some of the ways in which school education is organised and delivered may be contributing to our highest and lowest achieving students making little annual progress in their learning.
Addressing The Learning Needs Of All Students, Geoff Masters
Addressing The Learning Needs Of All Students, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Year-level curriculum expectations in our schools sometimes impose artificial ceilings on student learning, and many of Australia’s most able students are not achieving their true potential as a result. Geoff Masters explains why.
Focused: Why A Teaching Team Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Ray Peck
Focused: Why A Teaching Team Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Ray Peck
Ray Peck
Ray Peck reports on new research revealing that focused teaching teams assist the mathematics learning of students with Down syndrome.
Wikis For Group Work: Encouraging Transparency, Benchmarking And Feedback, Amir Abdekhodaee, Dini Kourosh, Farnaz Modarres, Anne-Marie Chase, Bella Ross
Wikis For Group Work: Encouraging Transparency, Benchmarking And Feedback, Amir Abdekhodaee, Dini Kourosh, Farnaz Modarres, Anne-Marie Chase, Bella Ross
Dr Anne-Marie Chase