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The Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants scheme “recognises the importance of fundamental research to the national innovation system. The national innovation system includes the people (for example, in government, higher education and business), processes and relationships involved in 'new' knowledge in a knowledge-based economy,” according to the ARC website.

Two teams from the Faculty of Education have been successful is securing funding for 2011-2013.


1. Prof David Andrich’s project titled - Advancing the application of Rasch models to the level of tests: estimating person parameters independently of all test parameters
2011 $70,000.00
2012 $70,000.00
2013 $70,000.00
Primary For 1303 SPECIALIST STUDIES IN EDUCATION

Project Summary: The project advances recent theoretical work on Rasch models which makes it possible to compare estimates of person locations on a scale independently of all properties of the tests to which they have responded. The project aims to circumvent the current methods of test equating where various distribution assumptions are implied.

2. W/Prof Stephen J Houghton , A/Prof Annemaree Carroll, Prof John A Hattie, A/Prof Rebecca P Ang, and Miss Carol S Tan’s project titled - Structural relations of loners' loneliness and antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents: building a conceptual model for effective intervention
2011 $60,435.00
2012 $73,830.00
2013 $78,134.00
Primary For 1303 SPECIALIST STUDIES IN EDUCATION

Project Summary: This is the first research project to develop a conceptual model of loneliness and detached a-loneness to explain the contribution of loneliness to childhood and adolescent antisocial behaviour. The outcome will be a school-based web delivered program which will have a major impact on promoting the healthy development of young Australians.