This report presents the results of the PISA digital reading literacy assessment for Australia in 2009.

Instead of focusing on student satisfaction, retention and completion rates, this study surveys the way students learn and the outcomes they achieve, helping institutions understand more about the quality of education provided. The Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) is an annual survey managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in cooperation with...

Highly effective schools have high levels of parent and community engagement. "Community" here includes parents, business and philanthropic organisations, and various services and not-for-profit groups. How "engagement" is defined and what it looks like in practice will vary from school to school. But, as the growing body of research makes quite clear, support from those...

Primary Industry plays a vital role in Australian’s economy and society, but the gap between rural and urban communities is growing, contributing to a lack of understanding of where food and other basic necessities of life come from. The recent television advertisement in which the grandfather shows a row of plants to his granddaughter and...

This study of neighbourhood satisfaction has revealed older residents believe it is safer for children to walk to school than the parents of primary school-aged children believe to be the case. The study, examined survey responses from over 800 residents aged 60 years and over and from over 500 parents of students aged 5 to...