Podcasts
Long term outcomes of former child migrants in care in Australia. "Uprooted from everything that attaches you".
This presentation reports research which examines the in-care and post-care experience
of people who lived in Australian child welfare institutions and other substitute care as
children between 1930‒1989.
1 November 2017
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Recent Developments in Reading Assessment in the USA National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): An Analysis of Conceptual, Digital, Psychometric, and Policy Trends
In his presentation, Professor David Pearson, who serves as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Reading for NAEP provided an update on recent innovations in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of NAEP Reading.
3 August 2017
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Lexical diversity and coverage in tertiary-level STEM:
a corpus-based comparison of English-medium lectures in Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts
The rapid growth of EMI in the tertiary sector raises some interesting questions for the Applied Linguistics and TESOL communities.
5 July 2017
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Language and disciplinary learning combined: CLIL challenging conceptions of language skills
This presentation is concerned with content and language integrated learning, CLIL.
5 July 2017
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Systematic review of English Medium Instruction
The exponential growth of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education (HE) globally has driven a similar growth of empirical research on the subject.
5 July 2017
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Building Optimal Predictive Models with Large Scale Assessment Data
Applying Bayesian statistical interference Professor Kaplan investigates the purpose and predictive validity of the PISA study.
14 June 2017
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What can we learn from PISA (2015)?- Design, innovations, challenges and limitations
In this presentation Professor Klieme looks at what types of knowledge research and policy need from large scale assessments.
14 June 2017
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A synthesis of studies using PISA data – Implications for research, policy and practice
Professor Kyriakides presents the results of a systematic literature review that aimed to identify the impact of PISA on educational research and the draw implications from the literature for the design of PISA in order to maximise its contribution to educational research.
13 June 2017
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Assessing practical work in science
This public seminar will be given by representatives from two awarding bodies for A-levels and GCSEs in England: OCR and AQA.
13 June 2017
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Education, inequality and institutions
We begin by identifying a debate within the literature between those who advocate a “skills premium” for achievement and those who warn against the harmful consequences of inequality for achievement.
6 June 2017
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Bright Spots Project: The subjective well being of looked after children and survey development
It is increasingly recognised that understanding subjective wellbeing (SWB) – or asking people how they feel about their own lives is key to developing policy that supports our quality of life.
16 May 2017
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Standards in national examinations: What do they mean?
Processes of standard setting and maintaining within curriculum related assessments form a key strand of educational assessment policies and programmes, and debates about standards are often at the heart of educational reform.
9 May 2017
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