Learning Processes
About Learning Processes
The Learning Processes research program focuses on research aimed at identifying ways of supporting learners and learning in workplace and non-workplace settings. In addition to examining the impact of educational practices and environments on learning in institutions, research in this program is concerned with cognitive, affective and behavioural processes/factors affecting learning, links to other aspects of individual development and learning needs of special groups, including those with disabilities and learning difficulties.
The Learning Processes program contributes to the development of theories and models of learning and educational effectiveness that illuminate understandings of learning processes, and how best to monitor learners’ progress over time. Work in this area investigates basic learning processes in specific learning contexts. Particular research topics include: learning in the early years through to the post-compulsory years of schooling, links between education and health, boys’ education, and Indigenous education.
In addition to the substantive areas of research encompassed by this program, a growing aspect of work is methodological, combining expertise in both measurement and explanatory modelling of performance indicator (PI) data. In particular, this work relates to analyses of large and complex datasets, and fitting multilevel, ‘value-added’, explanatory models to PI data-in response to increasing demands for such expertise from local and international organisations and education systems.
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