Dan Cloney

Developing an assessment of oral language and literacy: Measuring growth in the early years

Dan Cloney, Kellie Picker

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Research Conference 2021: Excellent progress for every student: Proceedings and Program

Children develop rapidly in their early years. A crucial component of this development is a child’s ability to learn and use langu..

Does student grade contribute to the declining trend in Programme for International Student Assessment reading and mathematics in Australia?

J Ainley, D Cloney, J Thompson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Education

Declines in the scores of Australian 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment are a matter of ..

Comparative analysis of student performance in collaborative problem solving: What does it tell us?

C Scoular, S Eleftheriadou, D Ramalingam, D Cloney

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Education

Collaboration is a complex skill, comprised of multiple subskills, that is of growing interest to policy makers, educators and res..

Investigating early childhood practice: Insights from a large Australian study

Dan Cloney

Book Chapter  |  2020

ACER ConQuest: Generalised Item Response Modelling Software (Version 5)

Daniel Cloney, RJ Adams, ML Wu, M Wilson

Software / Code  |  2020

Positive Mental Health and Academic Achievement in Elementary School: New Evidence From a Matching Analysis

Meredith O'Connor, Dan Cloney, Amanda Kvalsvig, Sharon Goldfeld

Journal article  |  2019  |  EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER

Previous research suggests that gains in positive mental health (often termed flourishing, wellbeing, or competence) is associated..

Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities

Sharon Goldfeld, Sarah Gray, Francisco Azpitarte, Dan Cloney, Fiona Mensah, Gerry Redmond, Katrina Williams, Sue Woolfenden, Meredith O'Connor

Journal article  |  2019  |  Health Equity

The growing evidence base on the extent of and opportunities to reduce inequities in children's health and development still lacks..

More than a snapshot in time: pathways of disadvantage over childhood

Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Elodie O'Connor, Shiau Chong, Hannah Badland, Sue Woolfenden, Gerry Redmond, Katrina Williams, Francisco Azpitarte, Dan Cloney, Fiona Mensah

Journal article  |  2018  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Disadvantage rarely manifests as a single event, but rather is the enduring context in which a child's development unf..

Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective

Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Dan Cloney, Sarah Gray, Gerry Redmond, Hannah Badland, Katrina Williams, Fiona Mensah, Sue Woolfenden, Amanda Kvalsvig, Anita T Kochanoff

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage ar..

Psychometric Properties of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (Pre-K): Implications for Measuring Interaction Quality in Diverse Early Childhood Settings.

Dan Cloney, Cuc Nguyen, Raymond J Adams, Collette Tayler, Gordon Cleveland, Karen Thorpe

Journal article  |  2017  |  J Appl Meas

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is an observational instrument assessing the nature of everyday interactions in ed..