A recent report released by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has concluded that Australian teenagers’ respect for people from other cultures is higher than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average.  The nationally representative survey of ...

As an indicator of progress, much time, discussion and energy is spent on how best to assess student learning and convey that information accurately to both students and parents. But as Professor Geoff Masters argues in his latest piece for ...

An article published on the EduResearch Matters website earlier this month highlights that one in five of all Australian students are not meeting minimum levels of reading. And, while that conclusion might be “shocking” to some, when we further categorise ...

Australian Year 8 students have cracked the top ten for maths and science globally, with the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) showing they were outperformed by only six other countries. The results, which were released in ...

In a webinar marking 20 years of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing in Australia, the editor of the Australian Journal of Education (AJE), Dr Petra Lietz, asked a pertinent question: Why does Australia keep participating in the ...

Concerns about the validity and fairness of the LANTITE test continue as two prominent academics in the education sector have commented on how the current Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) is administered. In a meeting with ...

When Education Review published an opinion piece by Mihad Ali highlighting her frustration with the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE), it sparked a debate online both on our Twitter and comments page. While many commentators believed that strong literacy ...

The sense that Australian teachers have been teaching increasingly diverse classrooms has been confirmed, according to a new report released from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). More specifically, the study concluded that Australian lower secondary schools and teachers ...

A new report from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is the first to capture data on education spending at all levels of education and from all funding sources. It found that in 2015 – the most recent year ...

Dear Mum and Dad, This is just to let you know that I took the torch, the hammer, the gardening trowel, the plastic strainer, the chocolate biscuits and the stuff that's missing from the bathroom. So it's OK, you haven't been ...