Research and Evaluation Reports

Understanding and Supporting Young Writers: Research Report

Fifteen early childhood professionals and teachers from the Marysville Cluster and the Darebin Early Years Network participated in inquiry-based professional learning from April to July 2015. This project sought to address four research questions:

• What happens when early childhood educators work with teachers in the early years of school in order to support early writers?
• What would a shared approach to the support of young writers look like (across early childhood and school settings)?
• What professional learning for teachers comes from this approach?
• What difference does this approach make for children, their families and the early childhood professionals involved?  

This report (docx - 184.8kb) by Dr Noella Mackenzie (Charles Sturt University) provides details of the findings of this research project.

VEYLDF Implementation Project Reports

• Review and Evaluation of the Inquiry to Implementation Project Final Report 2014, Monash University (pdf - 1.52mb)
  Monash University completed a review and evaluation of the Inquiry to Implementation Project (IIP) which ran during 2013. Research findings and recommendations from this report informed ongoing VEYLDF implementation initiatives and resources.
• Report on the Assessment for Learning and Development Project, 2012 (pdf - 1.9mb)
• Evaluation of Implementation by Griffith University, 2012 (pdf - 775.94kb) 
  • Executive summary (pdf - 259.15kb)
  • Final report (pdf - 775.94kb)
• The Outcomes Project, 2010 -2011 (pdf - 1.17mb)
• Report on the trial and validation of the draft of the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework from Birth to Eight Years (August to October 2009) (pdf - 873.47kb)