Student Engagement

Ukrainian primary school teachers using learning-through-play methods have observed greater growth in their students’ literacy and social-emotional skills compared to other teachers’ students.

An Australian research database that promotes critical thinking and counters misinformation is now available to secondary school students, schools and public libraries.

Teenagers in every Australian state and territory experienced disruptive maths classrooms and bullying at greater levels than the OECD average, a new report on student experiences shows.

We had the opportunity to talk with Lisa van Beeck, a Research Fellow at ACER and Project Director of the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge. Lisa is an expert across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and has a particular passion for this valuable project and the opportunities it offers students around Australia.

Almost 13% of Australia’s year 4 students who took part in an international study said they had ‘never or almost never’ borrowed books from their school or local libraries.

Strategies to promote mathematics are central to a new toolkit which could be a gamechanger in schools, and for the wider community.