Assessment

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12 Feb 2025

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Your 2024 favourites: the most popular PAT teaching resources

Announcing the winners of the 2024 ACER Advance Awards for Schools

Field Notes episode 5: A system approach to data with Catholic Education South Australia

Questions parents can ask to better understand their child’s report

How creative thinking assessment could provide a model for broader change

Enhancing education monitoring

The GEM Centre recently hosted a symposium, exploring methods to align national education systems with global SDG 4 benchmarks for more effective monitoring and progress tracking.

Field Notes episode 4: Making sense of data at Mansfield State High School

Year 4 results in global maths and science test the best ever

Year 4 students hit new high in global assessment, despite pandemic

19 Nov 2024

Motivated by improving education, the world comes together

ACER recently hosted 200 representatives from 90 countries in Melbourne to prepare for the 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Main Survey.

18 Nov 2024

Teaching performance tool: Insights from systematic classroom observations

Preliminary insights from the analysis of evidence from the ACER teaching performance tool.

29 Oct 2024

Australian teens among the world’s most creative thinkers

Australia’s 15-year-old students were the second-highest achieving creative thinkers in an assessment of 64 countries and economies, a new report shows.

29 Oct 2024

Australian teenagers top creative thinkers, but confidence varies

ACER’s new analysis of PISA results shows where Australia’s 15-year-olds have belief in their skills and where they lack confidence.

The Australian Council for Educational Research (India) launches a teacher assessment

15 Oct 2024

ACER India launches new teacher assessment

Standardised Teacher Assessment and Review (STAR) is an evidence-informed, high-quality assessment to enable improvement in teaching and learning outcomes.

4 Oct 2024

New PAIS Adaptive assessments providing culturally diverse test content for international schools

A recent webinar explored ACER’s philosophy and approach behind the Progressive Achievement for International Schools (PAIS) Adaptive assessments.

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