2015 Presentations

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Day 1 Thursday 21 May

Keynote: Building Assessment Literacy with Teachers and Students: New challenges Professor Marie Brennan
Session 1
Using Feedback to Build a Growth Mindset: A wholeschool initiative Dr Jane Mitchell	Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach! Using data to inform teaching practice in literacy and improve student learning Mrs Jane Denny	Technology, Evidence-based Assessment and Learning for all in Maths Mr Paul Sheedy	From Acquisition to Mastery: How reading profiles impact on outcomes for struggling students Mrs Susan Woolfenden	Using Assessment Data to Improve Reading Comprehension Instruction and Evaluate its Effectiveness Ms Julia Blakey
Feedback: Focus on creating critical reflection in students Mrs Christine Hills	Using Formative Assessment to help South Asian Ethnic Minority Students Learn Chinese as a Second Language Dr Zhihui Kou	Using Data from the Mathematics Assessment Interview (MAI) to Improve First Wave Instruction Mrs Bianca Witney	Navigating the Literacy Learning Journey from Early Years to Year 3 and Beyond Ms Evelyn Terry	The Year 10 Book Project: Improving motivation and achievement through publishing Ms Shelley Davidow
Session 2
Adopting a Growth Mindset: Using student data to improve learning outcomes in Mathematics Mrs Kimberley Morgan	A Reading Mission Accomplished: How a focus on research, evidence and ‘task predicts performance’ achieved the greatest growth in reading Ms Linda Fox	Putting Faces to the Data: Empowering students to engage with their learning Ms Sheri Evans	Empowering Local Learners: A pre-school to secondary approach to improving executive functioning through a Mathematics lens Mr Shane Loader	Why Does he Keep Doing That? Utilising Functional Behaviour Assessments Ms Aurora Alonzo
Session 3
Learning Without Limits: A developmental approach to learning and assessment Mrs Heather De Blasio	Using Teacher-designed Online Assessments to Drive Differentiated Instruction in Mathematics Mr Anthony Speranza	Getting REEL: Richardson engaging effective learning by using highimpact instructional strategies to improve student outcomes Ms Kristy Grady	A Read on the Data: Rethinking the use of data to close the skills gaps of readers left behind Mr Neil Lloyd
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Creating a sustainable in-house professional development program Mrs Amy Dugré	Designing a School Improvement Plan: Using a framework for effective school improvement Mr Robert Marshall	Targeted Practice Towards the Improvement of Writing Mr Matthew Smith	Levers for Change: Leading professional practice for improved literacy performance Mr Ivan Baker
Session 4
Learning More about Feedback from Education and Neuroscience SLRC Feedback 2015 Professor John Hattie and Professor Pankaj Sah

Day 2 Friday 22 May

Session 1
Innovation: Collaboration for growth in student performance Ms Lesley Gardner	Assessment Reform in Stage 5 and Record of School Achievement Assessment Judgements Ms Karen Endicott	VALID: Validating schoolbased assessments using online, on-demand multimedia assessment tools for Years 6 to 10 Miss Joanne Sim	How Strong is Your School as a Professional Community? Dr Lawrence Ingvarson	Getting Data to Teachers to Change Teaching Programs: A school’s journey Mr Matthew O’Brien
Bridging Spoken and Written Narratives Mr Matt Thomson	Teaching Judgements in Maths: A functional database Ms Michaela Wright		Facilitating Teachers’ Use of Performance-based Assessments through the Formation of Professional Learning Communities Across Schools Professor Derek Cheung	The Proof of the o-Mlit is in the Testing Dr Kellie Buckley-Walker
Session 2
Elaborating Responses to Fraction Assessment Tasks Reveals Students’ Algebraic Thinking Ms Cath Pearn	It’s in My Hands: A student-based approach to assessment Mrs Dena Reddan	Using an Evidence-informed Approach and Instructional Rounds to Lead Accelerated Whole-school Scale Change Mrs Catherine Cox-Walliss	Being the Best Learner You Can Be: A mind, brain and education program in operation Ms Donna Nitschke	Empirical Evidence that Supports Changes to Pedagogical Practice and Track Learning Gains in Contemporary and Technologyenabled Learning Environments Mr Terry Byers
Tickling a Sleeping Dragon: How adjusting and aligning testing and curriculum can maximise success in Mathematics Ms Sally Harris	From Hindsight to Foresight: Investigating data strategies to improve student learning Mr Timothy O’Leary	What Classroom Assessment Techniques Make the Difference? School beginnings with an end in mind Ms Melanie Clark	Using Manipulatives and Guided Discovery Lesson to Assess and Improve Teaching and Learning Year 9 Mathematics: A lesson study Mrs Masjuwita Puteh	Using Assessment Data to Close the Gap between Student Achievement in Investigation Tasks and Tests and Examinations at the Australian Science and Mathematics School Dr Bronte Nicholls
Session 3
I’ve Got the Power in Auslan Miss Heulwen Sweet	Activating Student Voice: Accelerating improvement Mrs Deb O’Neill	Transforming Your Pedagogy through the Purposeful Use of Data Mrs Tania Leach	Maximising Student Success in Senior Secondary Education Ms Jan Raymond	Using Technology to Promote Formative Assessment in Secondary Mathematics: Advantages for teachers and learners Mr Roger Wander
Session 4
Initiating and Sustaining an Effective Whole-school Approach to Numeracy through Formative Assessment Mr Rob Proffitt-White	Reconceptualising Entrepreneurial Learning and Assessment within General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum: An innovative approach to learning and teaching for the future Dr Shantha Liyanage	The Progressive Capacity Matrices Mr Anton Reiter	Everything is Formative! Creating a Culture of Peer and Self-Assessment in Workplace Maths Mr Mark Sivills
Obtaining Reliable Feedback from your Students about your Teaching Mr Ed Roper	Pushing the Creative Boundaries in Student Assessment Mrs Catherine Eppen-Van Der Aa

Day 3 Saturday 23 May

Keynote - Empowering Teachers to Enhance Professional Practice and Student Learning Professor Jennifer Gore
Session 1
Using the Quality Teaching Model as a Pedagogical Framework to Improve Assessment Tasks Mr Peter Clayden	Kaleidoscope Landscape: Reframing our approach to teacher growth and development Dr Liz Criddle	Low-Socio-economic Status Meets High Expectations: A research-led approach to successful student research Ms Ingrid Lees	Not available	Using Data for Effective School Improvement Mr Robert Marshall
Working Together to Enhance Teacher Education: A collaborative project between Queensland College of Teachers and Queensland Deans of Education Ms Deanne Commins	Learning from Those Around us: Learning Walks and Watching Others Work Ms Judith King	Instructional Practices Inventories: Quantifying and improving students’ cognitive engagement – case studies from three Sydney high schools Ms Sabreena Taylor	Flipping the Textbook Mr Matthew Cunnane	Bringing Data to Life Ms Brenda Little