The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is collaborating with the Queensland Brain Institute to create Australia's first Science of Learning Centre., in which an emerging field of research is improving our understanding of how students learn. Advances in our understanding of human learning is challenging long-held asumptions about education. The centre will comprise researchers...

This new guide provides researchers with an understanding of how peer review works and highlights some of the issues surround the current debates about the peer review process. The growth in the size of the research community and of the volumes of research being undertaken in the UK and across the world means that the...

Executive summary The research for this project was conducted from December 1999 through to November 2000. This project is about the need for strategies to improve the quality of assessment. Much of the research and recommended strategies from this project informed a series of guides developed by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) to provide...

Abstract In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have become more successful pursuing their educational goals than boys - especially in educational outcomes relating to literacy. In addition there is evidence from a range of studies that boys regard their school experience less favourably than girls and are...