While the recent Centre for Independents Studies (CIS) analysis of how universities are “failing” to equip maths teachers with the basics in instructionist/explicit teaching techniques whipped up some criticism, the report’s authors defend its strong evidence-base, research design and and ...

A new Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper highlights that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics, despite policymakers’ efforts to improve Australia’s initial teacher education (ITE) and reverse declining international results, particularly in numeracy.   ...

A new Centre for Independent Studies report based on the Western Australian Government’s Kimberley Schools Project focuses on the challenges educators face in teaching Indigenous students in remote areas, and the strategies teachers and school communities can implement to raise ...