Student Engagement

ACER works to understand and maximise students’ engagement with learning and its impact on student wellbeing and educational outcomes.

4 Aug 2025

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PISA testing begins: Australian students to inform global measure of skills

Teachers report low confidence and support for music education

New directory helps schools support student wellbeing

Teachers want more training in classroom management, PISA report finds

How students performed in PISA’s 8 essential maths skills

Building resilience and careers in agriculture

An ACER evaluation has shown how an Australian program has successfully contributed to reshaping perceptions of agricultural careers while supporting industry recovery in the wake of natural disasters.

Confidence, gender and mathematics in PISA

How we can work harder to engage girls with science

How to engage students who 'zone out'

29 Oct 2024

Australian teens among the world’s most creative thinkers

Australia’s 15-year-old students were the second-highest achieving creative thinkers in an assessment of 64 countries and economies, a new report shows.

29 Oct 2024

Australian teenagers top creative thinkers, but confidence varies

ACER’s new analysis of PISA results shows where Australia’s 15-year-olds have belief in their skills and where they lack confidence.

23 Sep 2024

Wellbeing program helps students develop new skills and focus

A program fostering social and emotional skills in hundreds of Australian primary schools could improve students’ focus and their ability to find calm when worried, new research indicates.

5 Sep 2024

Stars emerge from the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge

Winning ideas in this year’s Australian STEM Video Game Challenge included a lone spaceship protecting Earth from shooting stars, a solar-powered city built on a sphere around the sun and interstellar golf.

21 Aug 2024

Children’s University: providing an educational passport for aspirations

Why are options and opportunities in life more visible to some people than others? New research shows one approach to broadening the educational horizons for disadvantaged students is doing just that.

20 Aug 2024

Project-based learning in the 21st century classroom

ACER India provided technical support to the Sri Aurobindo Society to strengthen its Auro Project-Based Learning Initiative.

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