ReportThe report describes the rationale, aims, design of the study, test specifications and test materials used to elicit student achievement, the analyses of student achievement, the process used to develop the descriptions of student achievements and accompanying examples, and the findings of the study
The report is in four volumes: Part 1: Project Report (1.3MB) Part 2: Descriptions of Student Achievement (3.4MB) Part 3: Appendices (7.2MB) Part 4: Exemplars with Commentaries (22.3MB) Full Report (32.2MB) |
Background to the ProjectThe Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education project was commissioned and funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). It was developed and managed by the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (RCLC) at the University of South Australia and the Language Testing Research Centre at The University of Melbourne. The aim of the project was to conduct research to describe the achievements of students in learning particular languages (Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean) at Year 6/7, Year 10, and Year 12, based on evidence of performance under different conditions (e.g. program type, duration and intensity of learning). The descriptions are designed to characterise performance differences according to language background (i.e. students’ different degrees of prior exposure to the target language). The project responds to the need in languages education for baseline data on student achievement. That is, it addresses the question of what students actually achieve as a result of learning languages as part of their education in Australia. Addressing the question is necessary, because those involved in the field need to be able to respond adequately to questions of ‘what’ and ‘how well’ students learn in languages education. This in turn is necessary both for referencing and describing learning expectations and for developing community understanding of what can be achieved realistically in a school language learning program. If you require more information, do not hesitate to contact the Project Directors: Associate Professor Angela Scarino Research Centre for Languages and Cultures University of South Australia Telephone: 08 8302 4775 Email: angela.scarino@unisa.edu.au Associate Professor Catherine Elder Language Testing Research Centre University of Melbourne Telephone: 03 8344 5180 Email: caelder@unimelb.edu.au |
Project team
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Project assistants
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Project advisory group
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Language-specific teacher assessor panelsChinese
Mr Andrew Scrimgeour (Chair) Ms Marnie Foster Mr Wei Ha Ms Jenny Jin Ms Danying Liu Ms Faraday Pang Dr Ning Zhang Indonesian Dr Michelle Kohler (Chair) Ms Vicki Fischmann Ms Melissa Gould-Drakeley Ms Ida Harsojo Ms Lee Pereira Japanese Dr Noriko Iwashita (Chair) Ms Meredith Beck Mr Greg Dabelstein Ms Kylie Farmer Ms Naoko Nishikawa Dr Robyn Spence-Brown Korean Dr Sun Hee Ok Kim (Chair) Ms Hee-Kyoung Lee Ms Jennifer Lewis |
Verification process teachersChinese
Mr Lewis Liu - St Ignatius College, Riverview NSW Ms Weifeng Mao - St Ignatius College, Norwood SA Mr Michael Shaw - Melbourne Grammar, Vic. Mr Philip Wilson - Adelaide High School, SA Indonesian Ms Diyah Christie - Darwin High School, NT Ms Andrea Corston - School of Languages, Adelaide SA Ms Liz Formby - Portland School, Vic. Japanese Ms Jessica Clark - Mawson Lakes Primary School, SA Mr Nathan Lane - St Columba’s College, Essendon Vic. Dr Robyn Moloney - Macquarie University, NSW Korean Ms Mi Kyung Kim - Canberra Montessori School, ACT Ms Chungsoon Pak - School of Languages, Adelaide SA |
Expert consultation group
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