Staff Profiles
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson
Principal Research Fellow
BSc DipEd UWA, DipEd MA London, PhD Monash FACE
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson is a Principal Research Fellow at ACER in the Teaching and Leadership Program.
Prior to taking up his present part-time position he was Research Director of the Teaching and Leadership Program at ACER from 2001 to 2006.
He began his career as a science and mathematics teacher, teaching in WA, Scotland and England before undertaking further studies in psychology at the University of London. He has held academic positions at the University of Stirling in Scotland and Monash University in Melbourne where he was an Associate Professor.
Dr Ingvarson is internationally recognised for his research on teacher professional development, teacher quality, teaching and leadership standards, assessment of teacher performance, school improvement and the evaluation of educational programs and has published widely in these areas.
He has played a major role in the development of teaching standards in Australia, working in collaboration, for example, with the Australian Science Teachers Association, the Victorian Institute of Teaching, the NSW Institute of Teachers and Teaching Australia.
He was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committees for the Victorian Institute of Teaching (2000-2001) and for the TAFE Development Centre (2002-2003), and a member of the Advisory Council for the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Australian Science Teachers Association in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2005.
Dr Ingvarson has worked extensively in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA on reforms related to teacher education, professional development, the quality of teaching and teacher career structures. He has been a consultant to the OECD on several projects, and to Ministries of Education in Chile, China, Jordan and New Zealand. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia (1978), Stanford University (1988) and Michigan State University (1998).
Recent projects with ACER colleagues include three major literature reviews for Teaching Australia on Standards for Advanced Teaching, Standards for School Leadership and Teacher Education Accreditation and a review of performance-based pay for the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training. (See List of Publications by Lawrence Ingvarson).
He is currently co-director of an international study of teacher education being conducted, in collaboration with a team from Michigan State University, for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The study focuses on the preparation of mathematics teachers. See TEDS-M for more information.
He recently edited a book with John Hattie titled, Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification: The First Decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The book brings together the rigorous research and development work conducted on teaching standards and performance assessments by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in the USA since its inception in 1987. In Australia, copies of the book can be purchased at HolisticPage website.
List of Publications by Lawrence Ingvarson
ACER Policy Briefs by Lawrence Ingvarson