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Connect 216 - December 2015 Dec 2015

Connect 216 - December 2015

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Connect 214-215 - August - October 2015 Oct 2015

Connect 214-215 - August - October 2015

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Connect 213 - June 2015 Jun 2015

Connect 213 - June 2015

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Assessments To Support Quality Teaching And Learning, Charlotte Waters May 2015

Assessments To Support Quality Teaching And Learning, Charlotte Waters

International Developments

The focus of post-2015 development goals on educational quality for all is directing attention to assessments that support quality teaching and learning, as Charlotte Waters explains.


Measuring Learning Growth In A World Of Universal Education, Ross Turner May 2015

Measuring Learning Growth In A World Of Universal Education, Ross Turner

International Developments

ACER is leading the development of new ‘learning metrics’ – tools for measuring learning growth – as Ross Turner explains.


The Cure For Early Grades Assessment Difficulties? Take A Tablet, Maurice Walker May 2015

The Cure For Early Grades Assessment Difficulties? Take A Tablet, Maurice Walker

International Developments

Monitoring educational development in the early years of schooling is vital if practitioners, and policy makers, are to support students’ learning, but the assessment of student achievement in developing countries can be a logistical headache. Maurice Walker reports on an innovative approach to assessment using tablets that is addressing that.


Data To Inform Policy, Ray Adams May 2015

Data To Inform Policy, Ray Adams

International Developments

The ACER Centre for Global Education Monitoring supports the monitoring of educational outcomes worldwide. Ray Adams explains how the Centre’s systematic and strategic collection of data on educational outcomes, and factors related to those outcomes, can be used to inform policy aimed at improving educational progress for all learners.


International Developments (No.5) 2015 May 2015

International Developments (No.5) 2015

International Developments

This issue of International Developments focuses on the work of the Centre for Global Education Monitoring (GEM) at ACER. GEM is tracking progress in the provision and quality of schooling through the systematic and strategic collection of data on educational outcomes, and factors that influence these. Table of contents for this issue: (a) Data to inform policy; (b) The cure for early grades assessment difficulties? Take a tablet; (c) Measuring growth in a world of universal education; (d) Assessments to support quality teaching and learning.


Connect 212 - April 2015 Apr 2015

Connect 212 - April 2015

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Connect 211 - February 2015 Feb 2015

Connect 211 - February 2015

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