Literacy

A recent 3-year study on Samoa’s education system, undertaken by ACER in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture, explores policies and practices that can mitigate disruptions to schooling and promote education system quality and resilience.

ACER has produced a compelling policy brief to address a critical challenge in education: ensuring foundational literacy and numeracy for all students in the Asia-Pacific region.

ACER is supporting Timor-Leste to improve education outcomes by building better national systems to monitor learning.

This International Literacy Day, we’re using research in the Asia-Pacific region to highlight the importance of language of instruction to the education outcomes of children.

A suite of resources is now available showing the evidence behind how readers learn to decode words using letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes).

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has created a resource confirming how effective reading and comprehension skills develop – also dispelling common myths and providing clarity for teachers.