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Direct linkComber, Barbara – English in Australia, 2013
As educators encounter a policy landscape where increasingly the education lexicon includes keywords such as data, evidence, quality, and standards, it is interesting to revisit Garth Boomer's contribution regarding teachers as researchers. In "Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning," Boomer (1985) clearly named at least two key problems…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Action Research, Literacy, Cooperation
Comber, Barbara; Cormack, Phil – English in Australia, 2011
Mandated literacy assessment is now a ubiquitous practice in many western educational systems. While educational researchers, principals, teachers and education unions continue to offer vociferous resistance in some nations, in others it is now commonplace in the educational landscape and built into the rhythms of the school year. This paper is…
Descriptors: Test Results, Educational Change, Principals, Literacy
Kerin, Rosie; Comber, Barbara – English in Australia, 2008
The authors draw on some powerful practitioner research they have been associated with recently to envision ways in which a national curriculum might redress the inequities experienced by Australia's most disadvantaged young people.
Descriptors: National Curriculum, English Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedComber, Barbara – English in Australia, 1983
Provides a description of how nongraded, descriptive assessment works in responding to the written assignments of some postgraduate students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Nongraded Student Evaluation
