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Project
Supporting continuous school improvement
A project to provide practical guidance for school leaders to improve student learning outcomes through effective school strategic plans
Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Prioritising approaches to achieve each goal
This practice guide is the second in a series of 4 on developing and applying effective strategic plans and provides practical steps for prioritising approaches to achieve each goal.
Research report
The features of an effective school strategic plan: Literature review
School strategic plans are multi-year and annual plans produced through regular school review cycles to communicate a school’s intentions for improvement. AERO conducted a literature review to understand the features of effective school strategic plans.
Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Selecting practices to deliver improvement
This practice guide is the third in a series of 4 and focuses on selecting practices to deliver improvement.
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 Insights paper
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.