ACT Alliance for Evidence-Based Education

A great reason to get yourself to researchED Canberra (Australia) on the 29th August 2026 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

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https://researched.org.uk/event/researched-canberra/

Math anxiety: Between being able and daring to try Translated from Dutch by ChatGPT, so…

The dog ate my homework: Education’s evidence-excuses echo-chamber I am not the first to write about the fact that education has a fraught and not very pretty history when it comes to generating, critiquing, and applying rigorous evidence in order to maximise student academic and wellbeing outcomes. Recent examples of this commentary can be found here and here. Way...

Explicit instruction: what works, what doesn’t, and why it matters Explicit instruction has become a familiar term in Australian education. But as the saying goes, familiarity can breed contempt.

Greg Ashman (@gregashman) Using inquiry learning to teach early literacy or numeracy is educational malpractice. The evidence is clear that novices need explicit guidance, fully worked examples, guided and scaffolded practice. Only once these are embedded will children successfully use these tools to complete more open-ended...

The many years of advocacy from many members of our Alliance is finally showing improvement in ACT Public School education. ✅👏👏👏

Vive la révolution: School resourcing review cements the long overdue ACT schools shake-up | Region Canberra It's taken a long time for the ACT Government and Education Minister Yvette Berry to accept and come to grips…

ACT public schools to lose autonomy in generational overhaul of dysfunctional system | Region Canberra Time has officially run out for the ACT’s failing autonomous public school model. An independent review into public school resourcing…