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Dec 2025

Core update collection test

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Practice guide
Sep 2025

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Video
Mar 2025

Teaching for how students learn: Monitor progress

This video demonstrates how teachers monitor progress in alignment with AERO’s model of teaching and learning. Monitoring students’ progress by checking for understanding helps you determine what they know and can do, identify gaps in their learning and adjust your teaching to meet their needs. It helps you create a learning environment where students feel safe and supported to be active participants in the learning process, and better equips you to provide valuable feedback.
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Practice resource
Sep 2024

Early childhood learning trajectories

This collection of AERO’s Early Childhood Learning Trajectories is designed for teachers and educators working in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children in the years before school. It can support ongoing professional learning for individuals and entire ECEC services and teams.
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Technical report
Aug 2023

Longitudinal literacy and numeracy in Australia (LLANIA) dataset: Technical report

This technical report describes the creation of the Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy in Australia (LLANIA) dataset, including the linkage process and quality assurance methods.
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Research report
Jun 2023

Early childhood learning trajectories: The evidence base

Explains the domains of children’s learning and development that are covered by the early childhood learning trajectories.
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Explainer
Feb 2022

Formative assessment

In formative assessment, you gather and interpret information about student learning as it is happening in your classroom. It helps you to adapt your teaching to meet student needs. 
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Article
Aug 2023

Fewer than 1 in 5 students who are behind in Year 3 catch up and stay caught up

We found less than 1 in 5 students who perform below the national minimum standards in literacy and numeracy in the Year 3 NAPLAN tests catch up and stay caught up.
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Article
May 2022

There is no such thing as an ‘average’ school

We might associate ‘top schools’ with having the lion's share of academic high-achievers. However, when we look at the distribution of achievement across all students within schools and compare it to average differences between schools, the story is not so straightforward.
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