Staff Profiles
Mr Julian Fraillon
Senior Research Fellow
BA, DipEd, Dip Mathematics Ed, Postgrad Dip Mathematics and Mathematics Ed Melbourne
Mr Julian Fraillon is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in the Assessment and Reporting research program.
Mr Fraillon is currently the project director for the development of assessment instruments for the Moderation and Calibration of the Tasmanian Essential Learning Standards in the areas of Acting Democratically, Reflective Thinking, Being Information Literate and Investigating the Natural and Constructed World for the Department of Education, Tasmania. He is the project manager for the Australian National Assessment Program Civics and Citizenship Assessment, 2007. He is also the manager of cognitive test development and assessment framework review for the International Civics and Citizenship Education Study commissioned by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Mr Fraillon also manages test development for the National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Assessment Project, 2005 and the National Civics and Citizenship Assessment Program, 2004.
In 2005, Mr Fraillon was the project director of an evaluation of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. In the same year, he completed a comparison of the Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Ethics and Religious Studies with Australian senior secondary curriculums. In early 2005 he completed a quantitative and qualitative analysis and review of the assessment practices and pass rates of Australian specialist medical colleges.
He is currently involved in a number of ongoing professional development programs in standards setting, monitoring and evaluation in Australia, Hong Kong and Chile in the curriculum areas of Civics and Citizenship, English language, Outdoor and Adventure Education and the Humanities.
In late 2004, Mr Fraillon authored a discussion paper, commissioned by MCEETYA, to outline a measurement construct and design a survey instrument to measure student wellbeing in Australian schools. He was the project manager for the development of English language assessment materials for the Hong Kong Curriculum Development Institute.
Mr Fraillon has also reviewed qualitative data and developed assessment materials to better define and measure the Social Outcomes of Schooling for the Western Australian department of Education and Training, and is the project director for the development of assessment packages in the Arts (Media, Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Drama) that were used as part of the Western Australian Monitoring Standards Evaluation state-wide testing program.
In 2002, he completed a Review and Evaluation of the VCE Psychology Written Examinations which assessed the construct validity, generic assessment quality and interaction with the curriculum of the VCE Psychology examinations. He also completed ten reviews in four key learning areas (KLAs) of the Western Australian Curriculum Progress Maps for the Western Australian government. In the same year, Mr Fraillon worked in East Timor as part of the East Timor Maths and Science Project, with a team of local Timorese teachers developing teacher handbooks for primary Mathematics and Science.
Mr Fraillon has worked as the manager of literacy test development for the Literacy and Numeracy National Assessment (LANNA), for students in Australian schools at Years 3, 5 and 7, as a literacy test developer for International Schools Assessment (ISA), the Victorian General Achievement Test (GAT), the Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test (UMAT).