Assessment & Learning Partnerships (ALP)
Staff
P. Griffin, E. Care, N. Awwal, R. Mountain, M. Pavlovic, P. Roberts, K. Woods
This cluster of projects are an extension of investigations into the use of student assessment data by Professional Learning Teams in schools, which have been undertaken over the past three years. The projects examine teachers' collaborative use of assessment data to inform teaching. They investigate the implications of shifting from a deficit or remedial model of teaching to a developmental approach to improving student outcomes. Based on the seminal work of Lev Vygotsky (1974), a developmental approach focuses on students' readiness to learn and individual differences in their capacity to respond to scaffolding of their learning. The expansion includes schools participating in the Northern Metropolitan Region’s Achievement Improvement Zone initiative and in the Wellington (Gippsland) cluster’s literacy and numeracy improvement project. The research component is designed to examine teachers’ ability to use a team approach to working with student assessment data to make decisions about the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills for students in schools.
This project is also currently the subject of an Australian Research Council Linkage Project application, with Chief Investigators from University of Melbourne and Partner Investigators from the Catholic Education Office Melbourne and the Northern Metropolitan Region of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Victoria.
An Integrated and Analysis approach for Assessment & Learning Partnerships Online System (ALPOS)
Funding source
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development