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Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9277 5555

Address: 19 Prospect Hill Rd, Camberwell 3124 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.acer.org/

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25.01.2022 It's Teacher Tuesday! This week in Teacher Magazine: Wellbeing by Teacher: launches 21 Nov A whole-school approach to moderating student writing Classroom strategies for building resilience... ... and much more!... Sign up to receive weekly updates from Teacher, Australia's best educational magazine free! at www.teachermagazine.com.au.

24.01.2022 It's Teacher Tuesday! This week in Teacher Magazine: School culture: The process and skill of reflection Infographic: My eighth Teacher alphabet Book talks with librarians... ... and much more!... Sign up to receive weekly updates from Teacher, Australia's best educational magazine free! at www.teachermagazine.com.au.

24.01.2022 Celebrate learning across the lifespan with ACER, browse our selection of resources and assessments today. https://acer.ac/shop

24.01.2022 It's Teacher Tuesday! This week in Teacher Magazine: Time for a paradigm shift, by Professor Geoff Masters Infographic: Remote learning during COVID-19 Celebrating Indigenous cultures through STEM... ... and much more!... Sign up to receive weekly updates from Teacher, Australia's best educational magazine free! at www.teachermagazine.com.au.

24.01.2022 ACER is extremely proud to partner with UNICEF East Asia & Pacific and SEAMEOSecretariat on #SEAPLM, the first-ever student learning assessment created exclusively for the region. The main regional report was published yesterday, read it below.

22.01.2022 Celebrate the importance of wellbeing in children, students and adults. Discover the range of ACER’s publications that support teachers, psychologists and parents. https://acer.ac/mentalhealth

20.01.2022 Help support children with learning disabilities. Look at ACER’s wide range of products for parents, psychologists and teachers aimed at providing every student with the resources they need to thrive. https://acer.ac/shopld

20.01.2022 How does the experience of students living with disability differ from peers without disabilities? This Data Viz Friday, we share an infographic courtesy of Teacher Magazine using data from a 2019 Mission Australia survey, ahead of the International Day of People with Disability - Australia on Thursday 3 December. Find out more about IDPWD: https://idpwd.org/ Visit Teacher for the original infographic and more like it: https://www.teachermagazine.com//infographic-students-livi

18.01.2022 ACER promotes and publishes research-based knowledge and publications, take a look at our range of psychology, education and organisational development resources. https://acer.ac/shop

14.01.2022 Today's Data Viz Friday is a hypnotic visualisation and sonification of live updates to Wikipedia. As users update Wiki entries, bells chime to indicate additions and string plucks mark subtractions, with pitch changing according to the size of the edit. It's a beautiful way to visualise human interactions online and communicate the highly organic nature of this vast knowledge repository. Click through to engage with the live viz - and don't forget to turn on your sound! http://listen.hatnote.com/#

14.01.2022 Find the right candidate for the job. With more than 115,000 tests sold, the online ACER Select suite of tests provides you with maximum flexibility in a range of recruitment settings. Measure candidates’ verbal and numerical understanding and determine whether they are the right fit for your team. https://acer.ac/selectshop

13.01.2022 'A key to being numerate is to be able to start from real world problems or situations, excavate the maths out of the context and formulate it explicitly as a mathematical problem to solve,' says ACER's Dave Tout. Discover more >

11.01.2022 Does your school’s culture work for or against developing a learning culture? Take a look at Timperley, Ell, Le Fevre and Twyford’s latest resource, ‘Leading Professional Learning’ and discover the importance of culture and the impact it can have on your school environment. https://acer.ac/lplearning

09.01.2022 Would you like to win $1000 worth of resources for your personal library? Spend $1000 during December and enter the draw to win a voucher to our online store! https://acer.ac/spend1000fal

09.01.2022 Wellbeing is important for everyone. Discover ACER’s wide range of titles on how to stop bullying and how to increase a person’s self-worth. https://acer.ac/wellbeingshop

08.01.2022 Lessons are best when they are student-centred, and have deliberate structure. Want to learn more about how the structure of mathematics and numeracy classes can make a difference to student learning? Take a look at our newest title 'Leading Improvement in Mathematics Teaching and Learning'. https://acer.ac/fal

08.01.2022 "...Schools also can be thought of as operating within a prevailing paradigm. This paradigm has theoretical underpinnings, concepts, rules and methods that guide ‘normal’ practice. However, as occasionally occurs in a field of practice, a significant mismatch currently exists between theory and observation; normal practice in school education is not delivering the results it was expected to deliver." Read ACER chief executive Professor Geoff Masters' latest article in Teacher Magazine today.

08.01.2022 This is the final week of free access to the Australian Journal of Education's '20 Years of PISA in Australia' special issue articles. Read them while you can, or hear their authors in conversation in our recent webinar! Find the special issue here: https://journals.sagepub.com/aed?pbEditor=true

07.01.2022 Didn't catch our '20 Years of PISA in Australia' webinar last week? Now's your chance! It was a lively discussion about new ways to look at older data, and the fascinating insights into a range of issues such secondary analysis affords us. Watch it now!

06.01.2022 'Leading Improvement in Mathematics Teaching and Learning' aims to enhance planning and teaching mathematics in Australian schools to ultimately improve student learning. Find out more about the high-impact strategies that will make a difference in your school’s learning environment. https://acer.ac/fal

04.01.2022 Good news for funding of disability support in Victoria schools - but true inclusivity requires cultural change, says this article in The Conversation.

04.01.2022 ACER’s newest title discusses high-impact mathematical approaches that aim to strengthen numeracy and mathematics teaching practices and student outcomes in primary and secondary school settings. Shop now https://acer.ac/fal

03.01.2022 For curriculum-mapped resources to help you include Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander knowledge, understanding and skills in your teaching and learning programs, visit the Little J & Big Cuz website (link in comments)

01.01.2022 Discover the latest news and insights from ACER by joining our mailing list: https://www.acer.org/discover This month's newsletter features a new essay by Geoff Masters about changing the structure of schooling, highlights from the Australian Journal of Education's recent webinar on 20 years of PISA in Australia, projects contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and more! Click on a link below to read the newsletter.

01.01.2022 Today's Data Viz Friday commemorates Remembrance Day earlier this week. It's a poignant interactive visualisation that drives home the scale of human lives lost in wars, and in a beautifully vivid way that will be sure to resonate with students. Thanks to Poppy Field for creating it using source data from The Polynational War Memorial. Find out more about their datasets: http://www.war-memorial.net/res_sources.asp?q=3