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2009
Brown, P. M., Care, E., & Jackson, L. (2009). Young Learners: Children’s interests, intelligence, and play. Paper presented at the 11th New Zealand Early Childhood Research Conference.
Care, E., Roberts, E., & Thomas, A. (2009). Effects of language background on measures of ability of children in their first years of school. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist.
Frydenberg, E., Care, E., Freeman, E., & Chan, E. (2009). Interrelationships between Coping, School Connectedness and Wellbeing. Australian Journal of Education, 53.
Griffin, P. (2009). A review of the procedures in developing and validating APASO assessment protocols and instruments in Hong Kong (pp. 14). Melbourne: Assessment Research Centre.
Griffin, P. (2009). Use of Assessment Data. In C. M. Wyatt-Smith & J. J. Cumming (Eds.), Educational assessment in the 21st century (pp. 187 - 212): Springer.
Griffin, P., & van der Berg, S. (2009). The Southern African Consortium For Monitoring Education Quality: Moving Beyond ‘League Tables’ In Presenting International Evaluation Results To Policymakers. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference.
Kettler, R., Elliott, S., Davies, M., & Griffin, P. (2009). Using Academic Enabler Nominations and Social Behavior Ratings to Predict Students Performance Level on Australia's National Achievement Test. Paper presented at the merican Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference.
Nicholson, P., Gillis, S., & Dunning, A. M. T. (2009). The use of scoring rubrics to determine clinical performance in the operating suite. Nurse Education Today, 29, 73-82.
Roberts, C., Zoanetti, N., & Rothnie, I. (2009). Validating a multiple mini-interview question bank assessing entry-level reasoning skills in candidates for graduate-entry medicine and dentistry programmes. Medical Education, 43, 350 - 359.
Roberts, E., & Griffin, P. (2009). Profiling Transitions in Emotional Development for Students with Additional Learning Needs. Paper presented at the AASE National Conference: TRANSITIONS: Facilitating Change for Students with Special Needs.
Tam, H. P., & Wu, M. (2009). On a new approach to analyze two-tier items. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association.
Wu, M. (2009). A Comparison of PISA and TIMSS 2003 achievement results in Mathematics. IBE PROSPECTS, 30.
2008
Adams, R., & Wu, M. (2008). The Construction and Implementation of User-Defined Fit Tests for Use with Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Generalised Item Response Models. In B. Duckor & N. Brown (Eds.), Advances in Rasch Measurement (Vol. 2).
Brown, P. M., Care, E., & Byrnes, L. (2008). The Young Learner's Project: Identifying personalised teaching strategies. Paper presented at the Australian Research in Early Childhood Education Association 16th Annual Australian Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, Melbourne.
Care, E. (2008). Discussion Paper: Assessment of literacy skills P - 2 (Vol. 13): Catholic Education Office Melbourne.
Care, E. (2008). Early Years Assessment of English. Paper presented at the International Education Colloquium on Holistic Assessment, Kuching, Malaysia.
Care, E., & Griffin, P. (2008). Equivalence of benchmark texts (pp. 16). Melbourne: Assessment Research Centre.
Care, E., Thomas, A., & Pavlovic, M. (2008). Early learning differences in the context of language background. Paper presented at the The International Counseling Psychology Conference.
Care, E., Thomas, A., & Pavlovic, M. (2008). Early learning differences in the context of language background. Paper presented at the The International Counseling Psychology Conference, Chicago.
Frydenberg, E., Freeman, E., Care, E., Tobin, M., Begg, B., & Chan, E. (2008). Enhancing Wellbeing and Learning in Middle Years Classrooms. Relationships, Wellbeing and Learning (RWL) Project Report
Gillis, S., & Griffin, P. (2008). Competency Assessment. In J. Athanasou (Ed.), Adult Education and Training (pp. 236-256). Sydney: David Barlow Publishing.
Griffin, P. (2008). Pathways of Educational Leadership: Standards for Monitoring and Developing Skill Levels in Educational Leaders. Paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on International Education.
Griffin, P., & Grisay, A. (2008). Cuales son los principales estudios internacionales comparados? In K. Ross & I. J. Genevois (Eds.), Estudios internacionales sobre la calidad de la educacion (pp. 71 - 140). Paris: IIEP.
Griffin, P., Murray, L., Care, E., Thomas, A., & Perri, P. (2008). Developmental assessment in literacy (pp. 37).
Griffin, P., & Postlethwaite, N. (2008). General characteristics of Grade 4 teachers and their teaching. In Y. Zhang, T. N. Postlethwaite & A. Grisay (Eds.), A View Inside Primary Schools - A World Education Indicators (WEI) cross-national study (pp. 133-154). Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Leigh-Lancaster, D., Norton, P., Jones, P., Les, M., Evans, M., & Wu, M. (2008). The 2007 Common Technology Free Examination for Victorian Certificate in Education (VCE) Mathematical Methods and Mathematical Methods Computer Algebra System (CAS). Paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA).
Nicholson, P., Gillis, S., & Faulkner, R. (2008). The use of visual art in judging clinical competence in the operating suite. . ACORN: The Official Journal of Perioperative Nurses in Australia, 21(1), 20-26.
Postlethwaite, N. (2008). LAOS Grade 5 National Assessment Survey (pp. 205).
Remine, M., Care, E., & Brown, P. M. (2008). Language Ability and Verbal and Nonverbal Executive Functioning in Deaf Students Communicating in Spoken English. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13, 531-545.
Woods, K., & Griffin, P. (2008). Profiling developmental pathways of communication and literacy for students with additional learning needs. Paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association for Special Education.
Wu, M. (2008). A Comparison of PISA and TIMSS 2003 achievement results in Mathematics. Paper presented at the AERA Annual Meeting.
Wu, M. (2008). A holistic assessment environment catering for individual students (Invited paper). Paper presented at the International Education Colloquium on Holistic Assessment.
Wu, M. (2008). Improving the measurement of Reading scores by using mathematics and science scores (Keynote address). Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium.
Wu, M., & Les, M. (2008). An analysis of the differential performance skills of girls and boys on an English test. Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium.
Wu, M., & Les, M. (2008). The difference between boys and girls. EQ(Summer), 35-36.
Zhang, Y., Postlethwaite, N., & Grisay, A. (2008). A View Inside Primary Schools, A World Education Indicators (WEI) cross-national study (pp. 290). Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
2007
Assessment Research Centre. (2007). 2006 Annual Report. Melbourne: Assessment Research Centre.
Butler, J., & Adams, R., J. (2007). The Impact of Differential Investment of Student Effort on the Outcomes of International Studies. Journal of Applied Measurement, 8(3), 279-304.
Care, E., Deans, J., & Brown, R. (2007). The realism and sex type of four to five year old children's occupational aspirations. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 5(2), 155-168.
Care, E., Griffin, P., Thomas, A., & Pavlovic, M. (2007). Early Years Assessment of English: University of Melbourne.
Downing, H., Griffin, P., & Gillis, S. (2007). VET in schools: Analysis of Business Services Training Package. Paper presented at the AARE Conference.
Evaluation Team, & Postlethwaite, N. (2007). National Assessment of Student Learning Outcome (ALSO) Primary Grade 5, Report (pp. 197): Ministry of Education (Vietnam).
Gebhardt, & Adams, R., J. (2007). The Influence of Equating Methodology on Reported Trends in PISA. Journal of Applied Measurement, 8(3), 305-322.
Gillis, S. (2007). A review of quality assurance and quality control arrangements to support the implementation of national achievement standards for reporting student outcomes in senior secondary certificates (No. Discussion Paper): Assessment Research Centre, University of Melbourne.
Griffin, P. (2007). The comfort of competence and the uncertainty of assessment. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 33(2007), 87-99.
Griffin, P. (2007). Innovation in Learning: Global Vision or Dream. In M. Hayden, J. Levy & J. Thompson (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Research in International Education (pp. 501). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Griffin, P. (2007). Linking pupil and teacher competence in reading and mathematics in Vietnam. Educational Research for Policy and Practice.
Griffin, P. (2007). Mathematics Achievement of Vietnamese Grade 5 pupils. Asia Pacific Education Review, 8(2), 233-250.
Griffin, P., Gillis, S., & Calvitto, L. (2007). Standards-referenced asessment for Vocational education and training in schools. Australian Journal of Education, 51(1), 19-38.
Griffin, P., Pavlovic, M., & Care, E. (2007). Analysis of the Early Literacy Observation Survey: University of Melbourne.
Griffin, P., Woods, K., Peter Storey, Wong, E. K. P., & Fung, W. Y. W. (2007). Evaluation of the Native-speaking English Teacher Scheme for Primary Schools in Hong Kong 2004 - 2006: University of Melbourne.
Nguyen, T. K. C., & Griffin, P. (2007). Development of a Scale to Measure Economic Status of Students in Rural Vietnam. Asia Pacific Education Review, 8(2), 205-216.
Nguyen, T. K. C., Griffin, P., Gillis, S., Huynh, M., Nguyen, T., & Bach, T. B. (2007). The Development of Standards for the Assessment of Primary School Teachers in Vietnam: Developing Teacher Leaders for a Global Community. Paper presented at the ICET 52nd World Assembly - 7th Annual Border Pedagogy Conference.
Pavlovic, M., & Postlethwaite, N. (2007). What were the baseline data for selected input data about pupils in Grade 5 in Laos? . In N. Postlethwaite & S. vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.
Pavlovic, M., & Postlethwaite, N. (2007). What were the characteristics of Grade 5 teachers and their classrooms? . In N. Postlethwaite & S. vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.
Pavlovic, M., & Postlethwaite, N. (2007). What were the characteristics of School Heads and schools? . In N. Postlethwaite & S. vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.
Postlethwaite, N., Pavlovic, M., & Zoanetti, N. (2007). National Assessment of Student Learning Outcome (ASLO) Primary Grade 5 (pp. 197): Ministry of Education. Evaluation Division, Research Institute for Educational Services.
Ryan, M., Stough, C., Care, E., & Griffin, P. (2007). The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Gifted Adolescent Asynchronous Development and Academic Achievement/Underachievement. Paper presented at the Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children Head to Heart Bi-Annual Conference.
Ryan, M., Stough, C., Care, E., & Griffin, P. (2007). The influences of EI on gifted and mainstream adolescent's academic achievement. Paper presented at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.
Thompson, D. K., Warfield, S. K., Carlin, J. B., Pavlovic, M., Wang, H. X., Bear, M., et al. (2007). Perinatal risk factors altering regional brain structure in the preterm infant. Brain, 130, 667-677.
Turner, R., & Adams, R., J. (2007). The Programme for International Student Assessment: An Overview. Journal of Applied Measurement, 8(3), 237-248.
Woods, K., Griffin, P., Wong, E., Storey, P., & Yeung, A. (2007). Relationships between Second Language Acquisition and Home Background Factors for Hong Kong Primary Students.
Zoanetti, N. (2007). How equitably allocated were educational inputs to primary schools? How equitably distributed was pupil achievement between schools? . In N. Postlethwaite & S. Vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.
Zoanetti, N. (2007). Technical Appendix One: Test analysis. . In N. Postlethwaite & S. Vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Minstry of Education.
Zoanetti, N. (2007). Technical Appendix Two: Sample weights, standard errors and rho. In N. Postlethwaite & S. Vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.
Zoanetti, N. (2007). What were the levels of achievement of Grade 5 pupils in Lao Language, Mathematics and World Around Us? . In N. Postlethwaite & S. Vongvichith (Eds.), National Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (ASLO) Primary Grade 5. Vientiane, Laos: Ministry of Education.