Last week’s hand-wringing over the comparability of online NAPLAN tests with paper versions is moot. That is, according to one of the architects of PISA, Professor Doctor Eckhard Klieme. Klieme, a professor of education research (with a background in maths and psychology) ...

Students with dismally poor high school results are being accepted into university teaching courses, setting off alarm bells about the quality of some Australian educators. The university sector, however, says low scores don’t tell a student’s full story and only ...

What do a doctor and a teacher have in common? Potentially nothing, yet Professor Geoff Masters would like them to share something significant. Delivering a keynote presentation at the ACER Research Conference 2018, Masters, ACER’s CEO, explained his viewpoint. “The origins of ...

A group of Australian students has used technology to ‘e-meet’ a girl who fled war-torn South Sudan with her siblings after rebels shot dead their father. Five teenagers at Melbourne Girls College, in years eight to 10, live-streamed with Lilias, ...

Jericho, Jordan, Nazareth, Bethany and Emmaus aren’t just Biblical places. To Good Samaritan Primary School, they are ways of ensuring no child gets lost in their system. By splitting the school into these namesake ‘villages’, the needs of 700 children – ...

Parents and teachers will be able to compare the standardised NAPLAN test results of students who took the exams online with those who used traditional pen and paper. The national assessment body says its data analysts have confirmed the two ...

Australian school councils have come out pushing for surveillance cameras to be implemented into school playgrounds to help fight bullying and crime. This is a highly delicate issue, as one of the keys for creating a positive, social school playground ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to ...

Research consistently shows that many students become disengaged in their schoolwork as they move further into the middle years of high school. As students become disengaged, they participate in class less often, enjoy school less, become less interested in schoolwork, ...

Japanese high school students have produced a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima immediately before, during and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago. By transporting users back ...