Special Research Topics
Indigenous Education
ACER undertakes and promotes research that focuses on key issues related to the improvement of educational outcomes for Indigenous students. Below are links to sites containing reports of Indigenous education research and other relevant information.
Education of Boys
ACER researchers have contributed extensively to the debate in Australia on
trends in educational outcomes, teaching approaches that appear to be effective
and programs that have been developed to enhance educational outcomes for boys.
Brain Research and Learning
Over the last decade, researchers have used brain scanning and imaging technologies to learn more about the capacity of the brain to develop, learn, and change throughout the lifecycle.
Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006 (AUSEI06)
The Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006 (AUSEI06) is the latest in the series of ANU occupational status scales. These scales provide a simple means for researchers to convert data coded in accordance with the official occupational classifications of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) into occupational status scores. They have been widely used in a range of disciplines over the past 40 years.