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Mr Ralph Saubern

Position:

Director, Assessment Services 

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Division:

Assessment Services 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Publications:

http://works.bepress.com/ralph_saubern/ 

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Qualifications:

BA Melb, BEd La T, MTESOL Monash, GradDipCompSci (Hons) RMIT, CTEFLA Holmes College

 

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Mr Ralph Saubern

Ralph Saubern is the Director of ACER’s Assessment Services Division. Assessment Services provides fee-for-service assessment services for schools, universities, Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes, employers and professional organisations. These services include secure selection and entry tests, tests for diagnostic and monitoring purposes, and surveys of attitudes and values such as the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT), the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE), the International Schools’ Assessment (ISA), the Co-operative Scholarship Testing Program (CSTP), and the Vocational Indicator (VI).

Ralph is also the Project Director for Committed to Excellence, an ACER program that supports school leaders in their review and development of school practices to improve teaching and learning based on the eight domains of the Teaching and Learning School Improvement Framework.

He was appointed to ACER in 2000 and worked until 2010 in ACER Press, the publishing arm of ACER, including as General Manager and Publisher from 2007-2010. During his time working in ACER Press he was involved in the development and publication of a range of ACER school education and psychology assessments, including PAT Maths, PAT Reading, TORCH and ACER Select, and commissioned and published works for the ACER Press book publishing program, particularly in the areas of educational leadership, pedagogy and special needs.

In 2009, Ralph undertook a sabbatical with The Song Room, a national not-for-profit organisation that provides free, long-term music and arts-based programs for children in disadvantaged and high need communities. As Learning and Development Manager, Ralph was responsible for the professional learning needs of The Song Room Teaching Artists and the teachers and principals in schools receiving The Song Room arts education program.

In 2010 he returned to ACER and was appointed General Manager, Schools and later to his current position as Director of ACER’s Assessment Services Division.

He began his career as an ESL teacher, teaching and lecturing at Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, RMIT University, Deakin University and Monash University. At Monash University he held the position of Computer Assisted Learning Co-ordinator before a secondment in 1998 led to his appointment as General Manager of Wiser Software, an independent educational multimedia publisher

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