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ACER UPDATE Assessing teachers for professional certification A new book by ACER Principal Research Fellow Dr Lawrence Ingvarson and University of Auckland Professor John Hattie outlines the development over the first ten years of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the USA. Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards brings together, for international as well as non-specialist audiences, papers written by the key researchers involved in the development of National Board assessments between 1987 and 1997. The authors argue that NBPTS provides an example of a well researched certification scheme for measuring teacher quality that can provide a service to governments and employers seeking a reliable indicator of teacher quality. Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is published by Blackwell. It can be purchased in Australia online through the Holistic Internet Store. Information and communications technology (ICT) terms described A new set of terms used in education to describe information and communications technology (ICT) is now available through the Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED) managed by ACER’s Cunningham Library. The terms were developed through a collaborative project by education.au and ACER as part of the InspireED project. Around 80 new and revised terms have been described including ‘accessibility,’ ‘bandwidth,’ ‘Blogs,’ ‘digital divide,’ ‘mobile learning,’ ‘internet safety,’ and ‘Wikis.’ uniTEST to be administered at Danish university uniTEST will be administered by the University of Southern Denmark (USD) to assist the selection of students into its medical faculty. The test will be taken in Danish in May. Around 1500 prospective students are expected to participate. 2008 Employer of Choice for Women ACER has been awarded 2008 Employer of Choice for Women status by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA). ACER is one of 99 Australian employers to receive the citation. ACER was awarded the citation on the basis of our policies and practices that support women across the organisation and have a positive outcome for both women and our business. The citation is a significant public acknowledgement of our efforts in the area of equal opportunity for women. A media release and other information is available from the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace website « Back to eNews
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Assessing teachers for professional certification

A new book by ACER Principal Research Fellow Dr Lawrence Ingvarson and University of Auckland Professor John Hattie outlines the development over the first ten years of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the USA.

Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards brings together, for international as well as non-specialist audiences, papers written by the key researchers involved in the development of National Board assessments between 1987 and 1997.

The authors argue that NBPTS provides an example of a well researched certification scheme for measuring teacher quality that can provide a service to governments and employers seeking a reliable indicator of teacher quality.

Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is published by Blackwell. It can be purchased in Australia online through the Holistic Internet Store.

Information and communications technology (ICT) terms described

A new set of terms used in education to describe information and communications technology (ICT) is now available through the Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors (ATED) managed by ACER’s Cunningham Library. The terms were developed through a collaborative project by education.au and ACER as part of the InspireED project.

Around 80 new and revised terms have been described including ‘accessibility,’ ‘bandwidth,’ ‘Blogs,’ ‘digital divide,’ ‘mobile learning,’ ‘internet safety,’ and ‘Wikis.’

uniTEST to be administered at Danish university

uniTEST will be administered by the University of Southern Denmark (USD) to assist the selection of students into its medical faculty. The test will be taken in Danish in May. Around 1500 prospective students are expected to participate.

2008 Employer of Choice for Women

ACER has been awarded 2008 Employer of Choice for Women status by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA). ACER is one of 99 Australian employers to receive the citation.

ACER was awarded the citation on the basis of our policies and practices that support women across the organisation and have a positive outcome for both women and our business. The citation is a significant public acknowledgement of our efforts in the area of equal opportunity for women.

A media release and other information is available from the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace website

ACER UPDATE

Assessing teachers for professional certification

Information and communications technology (ICT) terms described

uniTEST to be administered at Danish university

2008 Employer of Choice for Women