Research summaries | Australian Education Research Organisation

Research summaries provide a brief overview of research findings and their implications.

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Evidence use in schools national snapshot: Summary of findings

Summary of AERO's national snapshot providing a baseline of how evidence is used by teachers and leaders across Australian schools.

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Creating AERO's family engagement practice guides: Methodology and annotated reading list

This methodology and annotated reading list describe the process AERO used to synthesise available research to develop our family engagement practice guides.

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Writing development: NAPLAN data analysis summary

This is a summary of findings from AERO’s 2022 analysis of student writing data – the most extensive investigation into this area ever conducted in Australia.

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Evidence use in education policymaking: Key findings

Partnering with Learning First, we investigated issues influencing the effective use of evidence in policy development through a desktop review and interviews with senior policymakers.

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Examining equity in NAPLAN achievement

This research summary explains the methodology for a data analysis of students' backgrounds and their influence on literacy and numeracy achievement.