New South Wales
Briefing paper
Formative assessment practices in early childhood settings: evidence and implementation in NSW
This paper aims to support early childhood education (ECE) practitioners and policy-makers by bringing together the available research on formative assessment, contextualised to early childhood education in New South Wales. Formative assessment is an educational practice that has broad applicability and support.
Report
The Australian cyber security skills and jobs NSW study
In early 2020, the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) partnered with NSW Treasury to undertake a research project to identify potential cyber security skills gaps and look at the impact of COVID-19 on the local cyber security industry.
Report
Parents’ perspectives on home-based learning in the COVID-19 pandemic
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily shifted schooling from the classroom to the home. This paper provides an insight into parents’ perspectives of this experience of home-based learning. The research shows parents have a wide range of views on how, how often, and how well schooling was carried out.
Fact sheet
Automated decision-making, digital government and preserving information access rights – for agencies
This fact sheet provides guidance to agencies on the release of information in relation to the use of automated decision-making systems.
Briefing paper
The use of artificial intelligence by government: parliamentary and legal issues
This paper focuses on the parliamentary and legal implications of governments using a form of AI: automated-decision making (ADM), which is deployed in automated decision-making systems (ADMS). It discusses the implications, presents key parliamentary case studies, and sets out recommendations from the literature on how Parliaments could respond.