Evidence - use & generation | Australian Education Research Organisation

Guides & resources (10+)

Practice resource

Assessing whether evidence is relevant to your context

This practice resource is designed to help teachers, educators and leaders reflect on and decide whether a piece of evidence is relevant to their context and whether the corresponding approach is likely to be effective in their school, service or learning environment.

Practice resource

Searching for research: Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to help teachers, educators and leaders use online and library search tools to locate rigorous and relevant research evidence on new and effective approaches to inform their practice.

Practice resource

Interactive evidence decision-making tool

This tool is designed to help teachers, educators and leaders use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing practice or program based on AERO’s Standards of Evidence.

Research (10+)

Research report

The impact of context on evidence-based practices: A rapid literature scan on formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning

This report presents the findings of AERO’s rapid literature review on the effects of the evidence-based teaching practices formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning on student achievement across contexts.

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Technical report

Linking quality and child development in early childhood education and care: Technical report

This technical report presents the findings from a study that uses large-scale data to examine how specific aspects of quality in early childhood education and care relate to learning and development outcomes for children in Australia.

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Actionable insights into Australian education

This project identifies trends, challenges and opportunities in education datasets and generates actionable insights that can support improved outcomes in schools and ECEC services.

Summaries & explainers (9)

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Research summary

Linking quality and child development in early childhood education and care: Research summary

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.

Research summary

Skills for future literacy and numeracy learning: Research summary

This document summarises key findings and recommendations from an analysis of Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) data conducted by AERO in 2022.

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Research summary

Transitions to school for children with disability or developmental delay: Research summary

This evidence summary supports AERO’s practice guide for transitions to school for children with disability or developmental delay.

Other (10+)

Submission to the Review to Inform a Better and Fairer Education System

AERO's submission included an overview of how student wellbeing is measured in Australia and highlighted opportunities to improve data collection and use of data in decision-making.

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What is education evidence and how can we use it more effectively in schools and early childhood services?

There are many research reports, articles, ideas and resources designed to help teachers and education systems. How, though, can teachers be sure what they choose to do will work? The answer is evidence.

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Shape national education research and resources

The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) is looking for educators, teachers and leaders from Australian schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to prioritise and shape its research and resources.