Buckley-Walker, Kellie A. Dr.

Kellie has had 15 years teaching experience in NSW secondary schools. While teaching part-time she completed her Bachelor of Psychology and then left teaching to complete her PhD in Psychology. While completing her PhD she tutored in a variety of Undergraduate Psychology courses (including Quantitative methods in Psychology, Design and Analysis and Personality) and Post-graduate Education courses (including Behaviour & Learning and What is learning). Currently Kellie coordinators, lecturers and tutors in subjects in the Undergraduate Education and the Masters of Teaching, and Masters of Education programs – 'Foundations of Human Development and Behaviour'; ‘Assessment in the Secondary context’; and, 'Leadership of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment'. Currently, Kellie is the Academic Program Director for the Masters of Teaching (Primary) program.

Northfields Ave

Building 67, room 327

Kieraville

NSW

2522

Australia

Dr. Kellie Buckley-Walker’s area of interest is assessment in education, with a particular focus on classroom based assessment. Her experience as a classroom teacher and educator of pre-service teachers has increased her interest in how classroom teachers design, analyse and interpret classroom based assessment tasks and data. Specifically her research interests involve:

Data and assessment literacy
Teacher’s data analysis skills
Validity in classroom assessment
Teacher education

As an Early Career Researcher she has been involved in a number of research projects including:

ARC Linkage grant entitled “Multiliteracy testing: a criterion-referenced tool to assess secondary students’ multiliteracy learning within a technology-rich, multimodal domain.”
Early Career Research grant through the faculty of social sciences entitled “Investigating the data literacy skills of in-service teachers”.
Higher Equity Participation and Partnership Program funded project entitled “Designing and implementing an evaluation framework for a ‘whole of institution’ approach to the ‘transition, retention, completion and transition out’ of equity cohorts”.
A self-funded research project entitled “Collaborative Practices in Assessment Design”

Kellie has had 15 years teaching experience in NSW secondary schools. While teaching part-time she completed her Bachelor of Psychology and then left teaching to complete her PhD in Psychology. While completing her PhD she tutored in a variety of Undergraduate Psychology courses (including Quantitative methods in Psychology, Design and Analysis and Personality) and Post-graduate Education courses (including Behaviour & Learning and What is learning). Currently Kellie coordinators, lecturers and tutors in subjects in the Undergraduate Education and the Masters of Teaching, and Masters of Education programs – 'Foundations of Human Development and Behaviour'; ‘Assessment in the Secondary context’; and, 'Leadership of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment'. Currently, Kellie is the Academic Program Director for the Masters of Teaching (Primary) program.

Northfields Ave

Building 67, room 327

Kieraville

NSW

2522

Australia