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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published May 2004 3134 subscribers Subscribe Now In this issue: Evaluating Literacy Advance and its effects over five years What makes a good teacher? ACER UPDATE Evaluating Literacy Advance and its effects over five years Research undertaken by ACER for the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) has highlighted the importance of a good foundation to literacy beginning in the preparatory year or even earlier in the pre-school years, with benefits flowing through to the later years of schooling. This is among the findings contained in a report, Five Years On: Literacy Advance in the Primary Years, which describes Phase Three of the Literacy Advance Research Project (LARP). Continue reading » What makes a good teacher? In an article for Education Review in April, ACER's chief executive Professor Geoff Masters discussed the characteristics of highly effective teachers. Continue reading » ACER UPDATE Third Wave Intervention Strategies ACER has been awarded the contract to investigate effective 'Third Wave' Intervention Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties who are in Mainstream Schools in Years 4, 5 and 6. The two-year project is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). It will be conducted by ACER's Learning Processes research program led by Dr Ken Rowe. School non-attendance research paper ACER has been asked to prepare a short paper on school non-attendance by the Dusseldorp Skills Foundation (DSF). It will update an earlier paper prepared by John Ainley and Michelle Lonsdale in 2000 entitled Non-attendance at School. It is hoped to capture changes in patterns of absences and suspensions since then, alongside some general information about participation rates, focusing mainly on the middle years of schooling . There will also be comparisons of patterns of non-attendance and participation in schooling between Australia and whatever overseas countries can be found to publish such data, and review the central policy implications arising from these findings. International Test Users' Conference 2004 ACER is conducting the International Test Users' Conference 2004: Assessing Intelligence, Emotion and Behaviour at the Hilton on the Park in Melbourne on 19-20 July.
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News bulletins from the Australian Council for Educational Research published May 2004
3134 subscribers
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In this issue:

Evaluating Literacy Advance and its effects over five years
What makes a good teacher?
ACER UPDATE

Evaluating Literacy Advance and its effects over five years

Research undertaken by ACER for the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) has highlighted the importance of a good foundation to literacy beginning in the preparatory year or even earlier in the pre-school years, with benefits flowing through to the later years of schooling. This is among the findings contained in a report, Five Years On: Literacy Advance in the Primary Years, which describes Phase Three of the Literacy Advance Research Project (LARP).

What makes a good teacher?

In an article for Education Review in April, ACER's chief executive Professor Geoff Masters discussed the characteristics of highly effective teachers.

ACER UPDATE

Third Wave Intervention Strategies

ACER has been awarded the contract to investigate effective 'Third Wave' Intervention Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties who are in Mainstream Schools in Years 4, 5 and 6. The two-year project is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). It will be conducted by ACER's Learning Processes research program led by Dr Ken Rowe.

School non-attendance research paper

ACER has been asked to prepare a short paper on school non-attendance by the Dusseldorp Skills Foundation (DSF). It will update an earlier paper prepared by John Ainley and Michelle Lonsdale in 2000 entitled Non-attendance at School. It is hoped to capture changes in patterns of absences and suspensions since then, alongside some general information about participation rates, focusing mainly on the middle years of schooling . There will also be comparisons of patterns of non-attendance and participation in schooling between Australia and whatever overseas countries can be found to publish such data, and review the central policy implications arising from these findings.

International Test Users' Conference 2004

ACER is conducting the International Test Users' Conference 2004: Assessing Intelligence, Emotion and Behaviour at the Hilton on the Park in Melbourne on 19-20 July.

All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no part of this electronic publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without written permission. Please address any requests to reproduce information to communications@acer.edu.au

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