Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101735

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170101735

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Culturally inclusive language assessments for Indigenous Aboriginal students. This project aims to improve the literacy outcomes for Aboriginal students. It focuses on the assessment of oral language, the foundation for written literacy skills, and the mode of communication most common for this student cohort. The project will collect school-based oral language data from rural and remote educational sites and use it to develop supplementary assessment tools for multilingual education. The assessment tools will be validated in workshops with teachers and expanded with descriptors for assessing Aboriginal students’ communicative competence. The project aims to improve educational outcomes for rural and remote Aboriginal students.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2017

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $442,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Education Assessment and Evaluation | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Specialist Studies in Education

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Education Assessment and Evaluation | Specialist Studies in Education

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