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 For Education Leaders
Ipsative Assessment: Growing Students’ Knowledge, Skills and Self-Esteem  In an educational context, personal growth is about improvement, and not perfection. Ipsative assessment is personal and not shared beyond the tester and testee. In classrooms the ipsative results are often related to personal best efforts and mastery, and that marks this assessment as different from formative assessment. Read more Brewing Innovation  Victoria drinks a lot of coffee and the consequence is a lot of used coffee grounds, it’s actually useful stuff and multidisciplinary design studio Nexus Designs and students at Sacred Heart College in Geelong have made innovative biomaterials from it.  Exclusive Schools Enjoy Tax Perk Most  The wealthiest families in Australia get a double dollop of benefit from school building funds; lower taxable income because donations to school building funds are tax deductible and lower school fees as a result of the donations. Online Delivery Trumps the Classroom  Online learning can increase a student’s short and long-term memory by improving their cognitive capacity, according to a new study examining the uptick of digital education during COVID-19. Teachers Mobilise Digital Learning for Students with Disabilities  With mobile bans rolling out in many jurisdictions, knowing how these devices are used in real teaching contexts is an important part of adjusting appropriately to the bans. Breakfast and Student Success  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, it helps us develop, gives us the energy we need for the day ahead, and, as a new study shows, leads to better academic success in school – though not necessarily in the way you would expect. 
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