Faculty of Education

This was a three-year longitudinal study on the effective teaching of literacy and numeracy for the Western Australian Department of Education and Training.

Professor Bill Louden, Associate Professor Mary Rohl and Dr Sarah Hopkins began the study in 2005 and completed their report in July 2008.

Teaching for growth explored the relationship between children's growth in literacy and numeracy and teachers' classroom teaching practices.

It comprised two related studies:

• a study of teachers' practices and children's growth in pre-primary and Year 1
• a study of teachers' practices and children's growth in numeracy in Year 8.