Research Projects
WA MSE Year 9 (Literacy and Numeracy)
Project Director: Dr Rhonda Farkota
This project involves Item Development, Interstate Trialing and Analysis of Trial Data for Whole Cohort Testing of Year 9 students in Western Australian Government Schools in English (reading and viewing), Mathematics and Science.
The program requires close and on-going consultation with WA Monitoring Standards in Education personnel on all aspects of the test development.
Staff: Dr John Lindsey, Mr Barry McCrae, Ms Margaret McGregor, Dr Ronald Martin, Ms Juliette Mendelovits, Ms Esther Michaels, Mr Ray Peck, Ms Dara Searle, Ms Anne Tierney-Roberts
Funding: Department of Education and Training, Western Australia
Deliverables: Test items for trial with excess capacity; trial test results; recommended papers; final papers; supplementary materials