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Evidence-based education needs standardised assessment

  • Written by: Jen Jackson, Research Fellow, Educational Monitoring and Research, Australian Council for Educational Research
imageStandardised assessments can inform what teachers teach, based on evidence of student learning.Shutterstock

The latest Gonski review aims to improve evidence-based decision-making in Australian school education. It recognises that governments’ educational investment must be based on more than politics, just as teachers’ instructional...

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The Queensland government is paying more for its debt than the average mortgage holder

  • Written by: Mark McGovern, Visiting Fellow, QUT Business School, Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology

The Queensland state government is paying a higher interest rate than most Queenslanders are on their mortgages. To make matters worse, debt is becoming problematic in rural areas with incomes and asset values down, and debts, unemployment and underemployment up.

Without improved state government debt arrangements, and policies to alleviate...

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Vital Signs: five economic red flags to watch for in 2018

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageWe don't know for sure if any of these things could happen, but if they do we're in for a wild ride in 2018.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the...

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We learn from our mistakes: how to make better predictions from tweets

  • Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and SocioTechnical Studies, School of ICT., Griffith University
imageHow do we know that what people tweet is what they really think?Shutterstock/AlesiaKan

Social media is viewed as a potential goldmine of information. The key is to work out how to mine this abundant source of public sentiment.

Linking social media sentiment with human behaviour is a relatively new and evolving field of study. It has a lot of...

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  1. Grattan on Friday: Discovery of the cabinet leaker would present bigger problem than the leak
  2. Foreign Policy White Paper finally acknowledges world power is shifting
  3. Australia's Foreign Policy White Paper offers more wishful thinking than concrete ideas
  4. Experiments in robotics could help Amazon beat Australia's slow delivery problem
  5. No, we aren't running out of new ideas
  6. Australia is hedging its bets on China with the latest Foreign Policy White Paper
  7. Muriel's Wedding: the Musical is a deeply satisfying tribute to Australia's most-loved dag
  8. With a few smart moves, we can relieve the pressure on gas
  9. Blood on the stage: Let the Right One In is a vampire love story for our times
  10. The six-month amendment could defeat the purpose of Victoria's assisted dying bill
  11. Why we need to end impunity for sexual violence in armed conflict
  12. Ratko Mladic, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', to spend life in prison for genocide and war crimes
  13. The off-topic Conversation #142
  14. Voters see through Turnbull, but cool on Shorten: Queensland research
  15. City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams
  16. Our obsession with infant growth charts may be fuelling childhood obesity
  17. New research suggests common herbicides are linked to antibiotic resistance
  18. If Beazley had become prime minister instead of Rudd, might we have had more stable government?
  19. Standardised tests limit students with disability
  20. Guide to the Classics: Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars explores vice and virtue in ancient Rome
  21. Public investment in electricity generation – a hot-button issue in Queensland?
  22. Citizenship crisis claims Nick Xenophon Team's Kakoschke-Moore
  23. Why good design alone won't attract millennials to your company
  24. Protecting religious freedoms is a matter of balance, says head of Turnbull's inquiry
  25. FactCheck: does the Safe Schools program contain 'highly explicit material'?
  26. Which square is bigger? Honeybees see visual illusions like humans do
  27. Infographic: here's exactly what Adani's Carmichael mine means for Queensland
  28. Curious Kids: Why are fern leaves shaped the way they are, and are all ferns identical?
  29. Why scientific monitoring of the effects of industry on our priceless WA rock art is inadequate
  30. Young Australians will wear the costs of Turnbull's middle income tax cut
  31. Foreign ownership of housing – how do Australia and New Zealand compare?
  32. We're drafting a legal guide to war in space. Hopefully we'll never need to use it
  33. Standardised tests are culturally biased against rural students
  34. Will microdermabrasion or skin needling give me better skin?
  35. Do we need a new offence to protect victims of family violence from psychological harm?
  36. Turnbull wants to take middle income earners' income tax both up and down
  37. Research Check: will a coffee a day really keep heart attacks at bay?
  38. What's Australia made of? Geologically, it depends on the state you're in
  39. The concept of 'western civilisation' is past its use-by date in university humanities departments
  40. New Zealand experience shows same-sex marriage could provide huge economic boost for Australia
  41. 'Finkel's new energy report' isn't new and it isn't by Finkel
  42. Facts sink glib housing supply mantra – the focus must be on affordable rental
  43. English test for international students isn't new, just more standardised
  44. There's some evidence lithium protects from dementia, but not enough to put it in drinking water
  45. What is the impact of 'impact investing'?
  46. Income tax relief on Turnbull's agenda
  47. When you're on the defensive, stepping backwards can send a bad signal
  48. Coming soon to a highway near you: truck platooning
  49. The future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good
  50. Del Kathryn Barton explores powerful female sexuality but reproduces the male gaze

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