Australia Association for Research in Education
Teachers, Educational Data and Evidence-informed Practice
Siemens: the biggest challenges facing education now and ways to meet them
The AARE 2022 conference opens this year with a keynote from George Siemens. Here are some of his …
What we must do now to rescue Australian schools
We expect education to be a catalyst for more equitable and inclusive societies yet too often governments and systems deploy one-stop solutions without detailed plans for how exactly improvements will be achieved or at what costs. The Building Education Systems for Equity and Inclusion report comes from an Academy of Social Sciences of Australia workshop …
The problem with using scientific evidence in education (why teachers should stop trying to be more like doctors)
For teachers to be like doctors, and base practice on more “scientific” research, might seem like a good idea. But medical doctors are already questioning the narrow reliance in medicine on randomised controlled trials that Australia seems intent on implementing in education. In randomised controlled trials of new drugs, researchers get two groups of comparable …