Staff Directory

Ms Suzanne Mellor

Position:

Senior Research Fellow  

---

Division:

National surveys 

---

Location:

Melbourne 

---

Publications:

http://works.bepress.com/suzanne_mellor/ 

---

Qualifications:

BA, DipEd Melb, BEd La T, MEdSt Monash, MACE

 

---

Use the Contact Form to send a message to this person.

Ms Suzanne Mellor

Ms Suzanne Mellor joined ACER in 1990 and has worked on many policy, survey and case-study research projects. The substantive elements of this work have encompassed literacy, competencies, thinking and Philosophy for Children, health policy provision, pedagogy, social education, Indigenous learning, ICT and civics and citizenship education and curricula across many of these areas. Some of this research work was evaluative of education policy and program implementation in nature, and it also included conducting survey and assessment in several of these fields.

The second decade of her work at ACER focussed on the management of a range of contracted national and international research projects, in the field of civics and citizenship, which resulted in published reports.

In 1996 she developed Review Papers for the Curriculum Corporation.

In 1998 ACER published her research findings from post-graduate work in ‘What’s the Point? Political Attitudes of Victorian Year 11 students’.  

From 1995-2002 she project managed the national Australian component of the IEA Civics Education Study, and prepared the national report (2001).

In 2001 she was joint-researcher for the World Bank project Promoting Social Tolerance and Cohesion Through  Education  in South Pacific nations, which reported direct to national governments and resulted in policy development and adoption.

In 2000-3 she conducted the evaluation of the Victorian Discovering Democracy Professional Development Program.

From 2003-9 she was ACER’s Project Director of the National Assessment Program: Civics and Citizenship of Year 6 and 10 students, with national assessments conducted in 2004 and 2007, and she prepared the reports for those two cycles, for MCEETYA.

In 2004 she became Series Editor of ACER’s major research journal: Australian Education Review, and she continues to manage all aspects of this project. She joint authored the initial publication in the re-vamped series: AER47: The Case for Change: A Review of contemporary research on Indigenous education outcomes.

The AER website is http://www.acer.edu.au/aer.  At this link all AER editions published since 2004 are available for free download.

Ms Suzanne Mellor has a practitioner background, having taught in secondary and tertiary institutions for over twenty years, coordinated curriculum writing for accrediting bodies, devising and providing a wide range of professional development activities for teachers, and writing text books for many levels and in a range of methodologies.

« Go to staff directory