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Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Evaluating for continuous school improvement
This practice guide is the fourth and final in the series and focuses on evaluating the processes and outcomes in the strategic plan.
Article
How ready is your school for change? Considerations when introducing new initiatives, programs and models to your school community
This article explores some of the factors shown to impact school staff’s readiness for change and recommends 4 promising approaches.
Research report
Readiness for change in education: Implementing new approaches in schools
AERO is collaborating with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) to examine readiness for change. This is the first research snapshot in a series of 3 that summarise learnings from readiness for change research undertaken as part of the Getting it Right from the Start (GIRFTS) project.
Research report
Benchmarking performance: Future directions for Australia’s National Assessment Program
By examining literacy and numeracy results across assessments, we can better understand the performance of Australian students over time; we can pinpoint areas of national strength and weakness and improve Australia’s educational outcomes.
Analytical Insight
NAPLAN participation: Who is missing the tests and why it matters
This paper is the first in a series of Analytical Insights papers, which provide accessible, up-to-date analysis of educational datasets.
Article
NAPLAN results inform schools, parents and policy. But too many kids miss the tests altogether
We look at who is not sitting the tests and why that matters.
Article
Ten approaches to supporting evidence use across Australian school systems
We identified 10 approaches to evidence-use commonly used by Australian school systems and sectors.
Research report
Writing development: What does a decade of NAPLAN data reveal?
This report discusses AERO’s 2022 analysis of NAPLAN student writing data – the most extensive investigation into this area ever conducted in Australia.
Practice resource
Family engagement audit tool - primary
These tools can be used to examine your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning.
Article
There is no such thing as an ‘average’ school
We might associate ‘top schools’ with having the lion's share of academic high-achievers. However, when we look at the distribution of achievement across all students within schools and compare it to average differences between schools, the story is not so straightforward.
Research summary
Examining equity in NAPLAN achievement
This research summary explains the methodology for a data analysis of students' backgrounds and their influence on literacy and numeracy achievement.
Practice resource
Writing instruction framework – primary
A writing instruction template for primary school principals and leaders. Helps users examine how the school approaches and implements the effective teaching of writing and writing assessment, and evaluate opportunities for further improvement.