Quality & standards

26 Jul 2023

Developing bright minds from birth to adolescence

If you had to choose two facts to show how extensive brain development is between birth and 12 years, they might be these:

90% of a child’s brain develops in the first 5 years of life.
The connections in a 3-year-old’s brain are understood to number around 1000 trillion and reduce through the next 10 years to settle at around 500 trillion in adolescence.

Developing bright minds from birth to age 12

GP registrars invited to make a difference with survey

Effective disability-inclusive teacher professional learning needed

Supporting the AuroScholar programme

17 Mar 2023

Report of Bhutan’s National Education Assessment 2021 published

ACER India supported the development, implementation and reporting of Bhutan’s large-scale learning assessment for grade III students. The findings will support educational policy and practice.

10 Mar 2023

Birth to 12 years in the spotlight

Global leaders in education practice, policy and research come together in September for Research Conference 2023, 'Becoming lifelong learners: Improving the continuity of learning from birth to 12 years'.

1 Dec 2022

Enabling teachers to support students with disability

New research identifies evidence gaps in teacher professional development interventions for students with disability in the Asia-Pacific region.

6 Sep 2022

Symposium discusses how to innovate in the development and use of assessment in the early years

An ACER-led symposium provided cutting-edge perspectives on early childhood assessment from research, intervention and practice.

23 Aug 2022

Reimagining assessment to promote learning

At Research Conference 2022, ACER CEO Professor Geoff Masters AO presented an alternative to traditional assessment models.

22 Aug 2022

Building capacity in Africa to monitor learning outcomes

New COVID-19 initiative helps to build capacity of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to monitor children’s learning.

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