Summaries & explainers

Attention and focus are essential for students to process and retain new information effectively. Attention refers to the selective focus of conscious thought on specific information, allowing students to engage meaningfully with learning tasks. Engagement encompasses how students behave, feel and think as they actively participate in learning activities.

This report discusses the findings of an investigation AERO conducted into student attendance in Australian schools for Education Ministers.

This research summary provides an overview of a study on peer mentoring for professional learning conducted by AERO in partnership with ALNF.

This explainer outlines how students develop proficiency in maths. It explains how teaching practices and whole-school approaches aligned with how students learn can support the development of maths proficiency.

This is the fifth and final explainer in a series of 5 on the key components of a deliberate and structured approach to implementation. It outlines the process of monitoring implementation outcomes, including success outcomes schools can monitor, how these can be aligned with enablers and barriers, and methods for collecting data.

This explainer is the fourth in a series of 5 on the key components of a deliberate and structured approach to implementation. It outlines processes, frameworks and methods for selecting and prioritising implementation strategies.

This explainer is the third in a series of 5 on the key components of a deliberate and structured approach to implementation. It outlines the importance of understanding and responding to context-specific enablers and barriers to implementation.

This explainer is the second in a series of 5 on implementing evidence-based teaching practices in schools. It outlines the key ideas for taking a staged approach to implementation.

This explainer is the first in a series of 5 on implementing evidence-based teaching practices in schools. It outlines how schools can take a deliberate and structured approach to implementation based on key ideas from the research evidence.

This research summary outlines research on culturally responsive teaching practices that create culturally safe learning environments.

This research summary presents key findings from a research project examining how specific aspects of quality relate to learning and development outcomes for children in Australia.

To understand which wellbeing programs and practices adopted by early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools improve children’s outcomes, it is necessary to measure and track children’s wellbeing. This research summary shares some preliminary learning from work the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) commissioned on developing wellbeing and belonging measures for children aged 3 to 8 years.