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ACER UPDATE New research program established ACER has established a new research program in Policy Research and Program Evaluation. The new research program will strengthen ACER's research into a range of education policy issues and will build our capacity to bid for, and to undertake, work in the area of program evaluation. The research program will include significant capacity to address questions around the resourcing of schools and will enhance ACER's capacity to develop policy-oriented publications on the state of Australian education. Dr Adrian Beavis has been appointed as Research Director of the new program. Dr Beavis worked with ACER for 13 years until leaving to join the Smith Family as Principal Researcher in 2006. In that role Dr Beavis was responsible for program evaluation, original research commentary on research and policy documents. He will be joined on the Policy Research and Program Evaluation team by Dr Michelle Lonsdale and Dr Andrew Dowling who have been appointed as Principal Research Fellows. Australian Technology Network Engineering Selection Test ACER has been commissioned to develop a test to measure the aptitude of students wishing to gain admission to university engineering courses at the Australian Technology Network (ATN) group of universities (Curtin University of Technology; Queensland University of Technology; RMIT University; University of South Australia; and University of Technology, Sydney). The test, The Australian Technology Network Engineering Selection Test (ATNEST) will join ACER’s suite of university selection tests (ALSET, GAMSAT, STAT, UNITEST, UMAT). ATNEST will assess a candidate’s ability to think scientifically, solve quantitative problems, critically analyse information and display interpersonal understanding. ATNEST will allow students who have not studied the traditional pre-requisites for admission to engineering, to gain admission to engineering courses. In addition, students who feel that their Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) or other academic credentials are not an adequate reflection of their ability to successfully study engineering can sit ATNEST, and have their ATNEST scores considered alongside their other achievements. The first ATNEST sitting will be on Saturday September 15, 2007. There will be test venues across Australia and international sites in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the UAE. For further information phone 61 3 9277 5573 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) « Back to eNews
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New research program established

ACER has established a new research program in Policy Research and Program Evaluation. The new research program will strengthen ACER's research into a range of education policy issues and will build our capacity to bid for, and to undertake, work in the area of program evaluation. The research program will include significant capacity to address questions around the resourcing of schools and will enhance ACER's capacity to develop policy-oriented publications on the state of Australian education. Dr Adrian Beavis has been appointed as Research Director of the new program. Dr Beavis worked with ACER for 13 years until leaving to join the Smith Family as Principal Researcher in 2006. In that role Dr Beavis was responsible for program evaluation, original research commentary on research and policy documents. He will be joined on the Policy Research and Program Evaluation team by Dr Michelle Lonsdale and Dr Andrew Dowling who have been appointed as Principal Research Fellows.

Australian Technology Network Engineering Selection Test

ACER has been commissioned to develop a test to measure the aptitude of students wishing to gain admission to university engineering courses at the Australian Technology Network (ATN) group of universities (Curtin University of Technology; Queensland University of Technology; RMIT University; University of South Australia; and University of Technology, Sydney). The test, The Australian Technology Network Engineering Selection Test (ATNEST) will join ACER’s suite of university selection tests (ALSET, GAMSAT, STAT, UNITEST, UMAT).

ATNEST will assess a candidate’s ability to think scientifically, solve quantitative problems, critically analyse information and display interpersonal understanding.

ATNEST will allow students who have not studied the traditional pre-requisites for admission to engineering, to gain admission to engineering courses. In addition, students who feel that their Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) or other academic credentials are not an adequate reflection of their ability to successfully study engineering can sit ATNEST, and have their ATNEST scores considered alongside their other achievements.

The first ATNEST sitting will be on Saturday September 15, 2007. There will be test venues across Australia and international sites in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the UAE.

For further information phone 61 3 9277 5573 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

ACER UPDATE

New research program established

Australian Technology Network Engineering Selection Test