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Full-Text Articles in Education
Equipping Students For Life After School, Geoff Masters
Equipping Students For Life After School, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Identifying and developing the knowledge, skills and attributes required for life and work is an ongoing challenge in school education.
Attracting Top Teaching Talent, Geoff Masters
Attracting Top Teaching Talent, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
In some of the world’s highest-performing countries, entry to teaching is now as competitive as courses such as engineering, science, law and medicine.
Learning Assessments: Designing The Future, Geoff N. Masters
Learning Assessments: Designing The Future, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Processes for assessing student learning are undergoing fundamental transformation.This presentation will consider three developments which can be expected to shape how student learning is assessed in the future. First is fundamental change in how assessment is conceptualised and approached, with a focus on monitoring learning. Second is growing interest in the assessment of a broader range of skills and attributes than those addressed in most current assessment efforts. Third is advances in technology which are opening the door to new ways of gathering information about student learning, including through records of real-time interactions in online learning environments. In ACER’s Centre …
Acer's 85 Years Of Research Spreads Worldwide, Geoff Masters
Acer's 85 Years Of Research Spreads Worldwide, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The Australian Council for Educational Research approaches its centenary with a strong track record for independent research and a growing international reach.
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.
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.
Plan To Recruit Our Best And Brightest, Geoff Masters
Plan To Recruit Our Best And Brightest, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Australia faces a number of challenges over the next decade in planning the future teacher workforce, according to Geoff Masters.
Understanding And Addressing The Learning Needs Of Our Highest-Performing Students, Geoff N. Masters
Understanding And Addressing The Learning Needs Of Our Highest-Performing Students, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
No abstract provided.
The Future Of Learning Assessments, Geoff Masters
The Future Of Learning Assessments, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Processes for assessing student learning are undergoing fundamental transformation, according to Geoff Masters.
Best Practice Teacher Education Programs And Australia’S Own Programs, Lawrence Ingvarson, Kate Reid, Sarah Buckley, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Geoff N. Masters, Glenn Rowley
Best Practice Teacher Education Programs And Australia’S Own Programs, Lawrence Ingvarson, Kate Reid, Sarah Buckley, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Geoff N. Masters, Glenn Rowley
Prof Geoff Masters AO
This report was prepared by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to support the work of the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG). ACER was requested to undertake evidence-based research and benchmarking of world’s best practice teacher education programs against Australia’s own programs, which included: (a) identifying best practice principles for the design, delivery and assessment of teacher education programs; and (b) articulating the features of teacher education programs that most effectively support successful transition to effective practice.
Review Recommends Tertiary Entrance Changes, Geoff Masters, Gabrielle Matters
Review Recommends Tertiary Entrance Changes, Geoff Masters, Gabrielle Matters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
A review by Gabrielle Matters and Geoff Masters of senior assessment and tertiary selection processes in Queensland has recommended changes to meet future education needs.
School Improvement On Australia’S Horizon, Geoff Masters
School Improvement On Australia’S Horizon, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
While Australia has seen a steady decline in 15-year-olds’ reading literacy achievement over the past decade, Geoff Masters identifies promising signs at the primary level that this trend may soon be reversed.