Podcasts
The rise and rise of testing and use of assessment data in Australia
In 2008 testing became high stakes in Australia and since that time we have witnessed the rise of a major industry with the emergence of readily available practice tests for purchase, increased provision of online resources and burgeoning tutoring services focused on National Assessment Program – Literacy And Numeracy (NAPLAN) style tests.
1 December 2014
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The Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age
We have been particularly interested in asking how young people perceive and respond to the demands made of them by school and family.
27 June 2014
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Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project.
The Effecting Principled Improvement in STEM Education (epiSTEMe) project designed and trialled a research-informed intervention which sought to incorporate a dialogic component within the teaching of early-secondary science and mathematics.
17 June 2014
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Pronoun Interpretation in the Second Language
A much-studied phenomenon in first language (L1) acquisition concerns the fact that children have greater difficulty in interpreting sentences with pronouns than with reflexives, the so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE).
15 May 2014
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Multi-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language
Dr Vicki Murphy is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.
24 March 2014
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Educational Testing as an Accountability Measure
In this presentation Dr Ydesen will reveal perspectives based on experiences from twentieth-century Danish educational history by outlining contemporary, test-based accountability regime characteristics and their implications for education policy.
7 February 2014
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Can a single model of task complexity differentiate between the difficulty of writing and speaking tasks?
7 February 2014
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A Sociocultural Imagination: Studying the Formative Effects of 'Everydayness'
It has often been claimed that the notion of mediation lies at the heart of Vygotsky’s contribution to social science.
13 December 2013
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