Research Overview
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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 educationAs 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”
