Educational achievement
Alternative labels
Student achievement
Achievement tests
Discussion paper
When parents work from home
This paper estimates the causal effect of parents' right to work from home on children’s educational attainment. The results highlight the large potential benefits of remote work in supporting families and their children's education.
Report
Young carers: impacts of caring on children’s learning and wellbeing
This report examines the early home environment of Australian children who became young carers, to what extent caring activities limit young people’s cognitive and psycho-social outcomes, and what explains the gaps between the developmental outcomes of young carers compared to their peers. It finds that caring does impair academic achievement of these young people.
Guide
The maths guarantee: how to implement great maths teaching in primary schools
Australia has a maths problem, and it starts in primary school. This guide shows how schools can start to fix it. It identifies the practical steps school leaders can take right now to improve maths teaching in their classrooms. The guide draws on lessons learnt studying seven schools across Australia that exemplify great practice.
Report
Student support: enabling the learner journey
This report describes how registered training organisations can most effectively support student success. It considers the key characteristics of effective student support; when and how support needs are addressed; and barriers to accessing and delivering student support.
Briefing paper
Mastery and application: students develop and demonstrate mastery of their learning
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.