ACEReSearch
Not a member yet
5049 research outputs found
Sort by
Infographic: Student reading in a digital age
Get PDFAn OECD report 21st-Century Readers: Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World analyses data from the 2018 PISA test and student survey to report on the reading habits of 15-year-olds in OECD countries. Find out more about how reading in digital and paper formats effects students\u27 reading performance and enjoyment in today\u27s infographic.https://research.acer.edu.au/teacher_graphics/1164/thumbnail.jp
School Improvement Episode 39: Focusing on the priorities
Get PDFHow have things changed for schools over the last two years of the pandemic, and what are the improvement priorities now for teachers, principals and communities on the ground
Teacher development multi-year studies. Using classroom observations to investigate and understand teaching quality: Initial lessons learned
Get PDFThis paper presents some initial lessons learned about the use of classroom observation data as a key form of evidence regarding improved teaching quality in a multi-year teacher development study series. This study series, commissioned by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), involves the investigation of teacher development initiatives that are primarily designed to support the implementation of new primary curriculum in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Timor-Leste and Vanuatu. The overall aim of the study series is to understand the extent to which the Australian investment has improved teaching quality and student learning. This paper discusses the processes used to design, implement, analyse and report classroom observation data in the Laos study, and key lessons learned about these that could be applied to other contexts and programs
Infographic: Student perspectives – making schools a better place
Get PDFOver 8300 children aged between 8 and 12 answered the question, \u27what would make things better for kids in South Australia?\u27 as part of an engagement project by the state’s Commissioner for Children and Young People. Here, we share some of their responses related to school.https://research.acer.edu.au/teacher_graphics/1172/thumbnail.jp
Infographic: My tenth Teacher alphabet
Get PDFWhat do you need information on? High-impact school leadership? Data in action? Using quality mentor texts? Online safety? The tenth Teacher alphabet brings you quick links to popular content that you might find useful.https://research.acer.edu.au/teacher_graphics/1158/thumbnail.jp
Whole Child Development: Measuring what matters
No full textACER researchers delivered an intercontinental analysis to establish understanding of Whole Child Development policies across the globe
Item development and psychometric testing of Work Stress Scale
Get PDFIn 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded employees work from home (Ishak & Mangundjaya, 2020). The work-from-home regulation provides several advantages, including high work flexibility. However, this regulation also creates excessive workloads and requires employees to work overtime due to various challenges from superiors with short deadlines. This situation encouraged researchers to develop an accurate psychological scale to identify the employees/ working stress. The scale comprised physical and mental individual responses to managing their uncomfortable work environment. It consists of 48 items measuring four dimensions: role overload, role conflict, role ambiguity, and role responsibility. The participants responded to the items by sending their responses on a 6-point scale, whether s/he felt the sentences described their psychological state from absolutely appropriate (score 1) to absolutely inappropriate (score 6). We recruited 91 employees aged 21 to 36 years old. In the content validity test, three experts judged whether the items were relevant, simple, clear, and unambiguous. The S-CVI was in the range of 0.89 to 0.92, with an S-CVI average of 0.90. Corrected item-total correlation revealed that all items were valid with a coefficient range from 0.40 to 0.79. Cronbach\u27s Alpha was 0.97. We concluded that the instrument was valid and reliable. We also simulated the norm to interpret the participant\u27s obtained scores. We created a standardized interpretation of the scores by applying percentile 25 and 75 to have three categories: low, medium, and high.https://research.acer.edu.au/ical/1002/thumbnail.jp
Adaptation of three psychological measurement instruments assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: Fear of COVID-19 scale, coronavirus anxiety scale, and altruism
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for more than two years and has caused problems for the world community. One of the impacts of COVID-19 is psychological barriers, including decreased well-being, increased stress, anxiety, depression, loss of family members, and being laid off. Is there still energy in a difficult situation like this to give empathy and have a sense of wanting to help without reward (altruism)? The psychological condition of the impact of COVID-19 is the background for the need to carry out valid and reliable psychological measurements. This study aims to identify the psychometric properties of three psychological instruments adapted to the Indonesian culture. These instruments measure the psychological impact related to the context of COVID-19, including Fear of COVID-19, Anxiety toward COVID-19, and Altruism. This research is part of an international umbrella research themed: International and Multidimensional Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 across Generations (IMPACT-C19), which involves more than 16 countries. This study implemented a convenience sampling method to recruit 176 participants. The adaptation stages included translating the instruments from English into Indonesian (using the translator\u27s discussion method), back-translation from Indonesian to English, harmonizing the translation results, and statistical testing. We applied Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to test the instrument\u27s validity and the McDonald\u27s Omega method to test reliability. The results showed that the Fear of COVID-19 scale was valid with adequate goodness of fit values, namely c2 (21) = 375.47, p = 0.10, TLI = 0.98 (recommended 0.95), CFI = 0.97 (recommended = 0.95) ), RMSEA = 0.06 (suggested \u3c 0.08), with a reliability coefficient of 0.81. The anxiety toward the COVID-19 scale is also valid with excellent goodness of fit values, namely c2 (10) = 336.59, p = 0.34, TLI = 1.00, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = 0.03, with a reliability coefficient of 0.83. The results of the Altruism CFA test showed that all items were valid with good goodness of fit values, namely c2 (10) = 147.37, p = 0.22, TLI = 0.99, CFI = 0.96, RMSEA = 0.05, with a reliability coefficient of 0.70. The research results showed that the three instruments are valid with good goodness of fit and adequate reliability coefficient.https://research.acer.edu.au/ical/1003/thumbnail.jp
Pairwise comparison method: Concept note
Get PDFThe paper sets out several approaches, both statistical and non-statistical, by which jurisdictions may choose to link their assessments to the global standards for reporting. One of these, the Pairwise Comparison Method (PCM), was first set out in Lazendic (2019). This concept note provides further details on the PCM and the work that has taken place since 2019 to enable the approach to be operationalised. The PCM relies on the Learning Progression Scales (LPSs) for reading and mathematics, developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). A full description of the development of the scales is provided in the section Technical Note on the construction of the Learning Progression Scales, but in essence they are robust, statistical ordering of items drawn from a range of different assessments that was developed using a pairwise comparison approach
Infographic: Young people\u27s mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19
Get PDFA new report from the Australian Human Rights Commission details the findings of a project exploring children and young people’s experiences of COVID-19. In this infographic, we explore some of the findings related to remote learning, wellbeing support from schools, and where children seek support for their mental health.https://research.acer.edu.au/teacher_graphics/1176/thumbnail.jp