Past projects
Learning through research allows our staff to improve teaching and learning techniques by passing on knowledge from past research conducted through the various projects in our active research programs. Below is a list of our past research projects conducted by the school and research centres.
Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies
- An investigation of how year 10 students use ICT when writing
- Digital formats for external assessment
- Digital forms of assessment
- Digital representations of teaching
- E-portfolios in child care centres
- Early literacy through science
- Early support program for Design and Technology and Home Economics teachers
- Evaluation of learning with ICT (formerly 100 Schools)
- Evaluation of the BushNet project
- Evaluation of the Hypermedia Comprehension Framework and teacher resources
- Innovative design in remote schools
- Laptops for university students
- Partnerships for ICTs Learning (PICTL)
- Podcasting as a strategy for helping students become reflective practitioners (Phase 2)
- Professional learning in physical education
- Promoting good practice in technology education in Western Australia
- The use of virtual manipulatives with electronic whiteboards in K-3 learning environments
Fogerty Learning Centre
- 'Riding the waves': Implementing a tiered approach to literacy intervention
- A better beginning: Building the foundation for English communicative competency
- An early support program for mathematics and science teachers: professional mentoring for re-training teachers
- An evaluation of the behaviour management and discipline strategy
- Assessing the impact of a commercial synthetic phonics program on teacher knowledge, attitude to teaching, and pre-primary student progress
- Building powerful writers: Supporting writers across the middle years of schooling
- Case management and targeted intervention through the training and deployment of para-professionals in classrooms
- Clarkson cluster collaboration: A framework of literacy intervention for at-risk Year 2 students
- Evaluation of the 'Innovative design for enhancing achievement in schools' program in 10 government secondary schools
- Evaluation of the South Australian Accelerated Literacy program
- Identification of effective models of implementing Getting it Right in secondary schools
- Improving mathematical performance via the use of effective literacy practices
- Literacy intervention in Years 2 to 4
- Literacy intervention: Supporting students with literacy difficulties in the middle and upper years of primary schooling
- Renewing rural and regional teacher education curriculum
- Staying in the game: Retention and engagement in the first year
- Teaching and leading in remote schools: Cases from Western Australia
- The Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary): improving retention rates and learning outcomes of students at educational risk
- The Pipeline project
- The study of primary school resourcing