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Dr Jennifer Bryce

Position:

Senior Research Fellow 

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Division:

Assessment and Reporting: Humanities and Social Sciences 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Publications:

http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_bryce 

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Qualifications:

BA, BEd Melb, DipArts VCA, MSocSci, PhD RMIT

 

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Dr Jennifer Bryce is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in the Assessment and Reporting research program, in which she heads the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences team.

She has many years of experience in test development, particularly in humanities and the arts, reflecting her interest in arts education and lifelong learning. She also undertakes projects that involve qualitative research.

She has completed an evaluation of school-based arts programs with Ms Juliette Mendelovits, Dr Adrian Beavis and Ms Joy McQueen for the Australian Government and the Australia Council, and has undertaken other studies of learning through the arts. Related to this is core-funded work on Lifelong Learning, a report on case studies with Mr Graeme Withers: Engaging secondary school students in lifelong learning, and with Mr Graeme Withers, Ms Tracey Frigo and Dr Phil McKenzie: The Era of Lifelong Learning: Implications for Secondary Schools.

Dr Bryce’s research interests include the conceptualisation and assessment of generic skills, in particular, interpersonal understanding. The title of her doctorate, completed in 2003, is Constructing Intra and Interpersonal Competencies in a Context of Lifelong Learning. Through this work she has presented papers and conducted workshops on the role of Emotional Intelligence in secondary school education and recruitment to industry. She conducted a study of generic key competencies in the arts for the (then) Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) and has worked on projects with Dr Doug McCurry on the conceptualisation and assessment of key competencies/ generic employability skills. Dr Bryce has undertaken international work, conducting workshops on higher order thinking and generic skills testing in Botswana, Colombia and Jordan.

Dr Bryce joined the Australian Council for Educational Research in 1992. Prior to this she worked as a high school teacher (including careers and work education) and for 12 years in a university (La Trobe, School of Health Sciences, Department of Educational Resources).

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