Researchers find new exam system ‘washes down’ to lower years
Ms Julie Arnold, a PhD candidate on the Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage project and C4IE higher degree research member was this week featured in the QUT News in a piece titled Researchers find new exam system ‘washes down’ to lower years. Read more here…
Project update: Semester 2, 2022
Who can believe it’s October already? Five months have passed since our last update and those months have been jam-packed! In Term 2, the 11 teachers in our semester one cohort completed our Accessible Pedagogies program of professional learning, which brought the participation of these hard-working teachers to a close. Our team…
Success criteria as a way of increasing accessibility in assessment
In this blog post, Associate Professor Jill Willis describes some of the important work being done as part of the Assessment for Learning component of the Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage Project. What if making some small changes could help both students and teachers? We are working with students and teachers to do just that. This post…
Accessible Assessment Project Newsletter: May 2022
Project update: Semester 1 2022 It’s only May and we already have lots of exciting news to share with you about the Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage Project! Over the course of this year, 24 English teachers, three English Heads of Department, and a range of specialist support staff (Heads of Special Education, Speech…
ABC Radio Brisbane Drive: Interview with Haley Tancredi
On Tuesday 4 April, PhD candidate Haley Tancredi spoke with Kelly Higgins-Devine about the Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage project. She shared: the investment that the ARC and our research partners (QCAA, QSPA, SPA and our Partner Schools) have made in this important project, the complex and dedicated work that our Partner School…
Making visible the invisible: Using eye-tracking technology to understand how students access task information
In this C4IE blog, Dr Callula Killingly, a postdoctoral fellow in C4IE’s Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage team, explains what eye tracking is, and why we are using this innovative technique with Grade 10 English students. Eye tracking: what is it and what does it do? The learning process is largely invisible. Knowing what helps or…
What are we learning from students with language and/or attentional difficulties?
In this blog, PhD candidate Haley Tancredi shares early findings from her doctoral research, which is being conducted as part of the Accessible Assessment ARC Linkage project. Difficulties using and understanding spoken or written language—or directing and sustaining attention—are subtle, but they can make school very hard work for…