International Test Users Conference proceedings

World leaders in the assessment of intelligence, emotions and behaviour gathered in Melbourne this week to consider issues in assessing the whole person across the lifespan. They joined around 180 delegates including participants from the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia and New Zealand taking part in the International Test Users' Conference 2004 hosted by ACER. Keynote presentations were given by Professor Gale Roid, co-author of the Stanford Binet 5; Professor Thomas Achenbach, author of the Child Behaviour Checklist; Dr David Caruso, co-author of the Mayar, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test; and Dr Katherine Hirsch, co-author of a number of texts on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
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Workload in New Zealand secondary schools

The New Zealand Ministry of Education has contracted ACER to investigate the nature and patterns of workload in secondary schools and explore practical and innovative ways to manage workload more effectively in the future.

Cunningham Library project

ACER's Cunningham Library has been contracted by the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) of the Victorian Department of Education and Training to conduct a short-term project. The project involves the development of a controlled vocabulary structure for the web site of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework.

ACER Press title short-listed for award

Crisis Management and the School Community , edited by Mardie Whitla and published by ACER Press has been short-listed for The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing in the teacher reference section. Winners will be announced at a presentation lunch on 6 August.

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