Literacy

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has created a resource confirming how effective reading and comprehension skills develop – also dispelling common myths and providing clarity for teachers. 

A multi-year, multi-country study in the Indo-Pacific region has identified strategies that can help shape future teacher professional development initiatives.

New study analysing socio-cultural factors confirms that a family’s socio-economic status and parental attitudes towards homework have direct positive effects on reading literacy of primary school students in Southeast Asia.

New ACER research has found that teacher professional learning has positively impacted teaching quality and student engagement in Vanuatu.

More than 900 Literacy and Numeracy competition entries were completed by students around Australia in Term 4 2023 and Term 1 2024.

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.