This explainer outlines how students develop mastery by consolidating knowledge – storing and strengthening it in memory through practice and review – enabling them to solve unfamiliar problems, think critically and creatively, and generate new representations and applications of their understanding.

This explainer explores the critical processes through which students acquire, store and utilise knowledge to develop understanding. Knowing the function of memory systems and the process of acquiring knowledge helps explain how learning is retained over time and supports students’ ability to build on what they know.

A data asset that maps information on children and young people aged 0 to 24 in communities across Australia. It enables the visualisation, analysis, and monitoring of health and wellbeing metrics for children and young people. It is intended to accelerate access to and use of spatial data to understand inequities and improve the wellbeing...

This resource is designed for teachers and educators working in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. It describes how children learn and develop in the key domains of: executive functions, social and emotional learning, mathematical thinking, language and communication, physical development.

The objective of this study was to determine the child protection and developmental trajectories of children who entered care as infants and whether meeting developmental needs through service provision improves trajectories and outcomes for these children. The findings suggest that children who entered care as infants predominantly remained in the care system and had a...