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Buckley-Walker, Kellie Dr.

Lecturer

  • Faculty of Social Science - School of Education

Research Overview

  • 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”

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Presentations

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Classroom-based assessment.
    Data and/or Assessment Literacy
    Validity of classroom based assessments

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated) Self-determination behaviours of adolescent students with ASD in Saudi Arabia: A multiple case study Aba Alkhayl, Saleh

Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, School of Psychology, Exploring changes in identity in family recovery processes 2013
  • Bachelor of Psychology in Psychology, Psychology 2007
  • B.E. in Education, University of Wollongong, Education 1992

Teaching Overview

  • 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.

Full Name

  • Dr. Kellie Buckley-Walker

Mailing Address

  • Northfields Ave

    Building 67, room 327

    Kieraville

    NSW

    2522

    Australia

Research Overview

  • 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”

Selected Publications

Presentations

Potential Supervision Topics

  • Classroom-based assessment.
    Data and/or Assessment Literacy
    Validity of classroom based assessments

Advisees

  • Graduate Advising Relationship

    Degree Research Title Advisee
    Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated) Self-determination behaviours of adolescent students with ASD in Saudi Arabia: A multiple case study Aba Alkhayl, Saleh

Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, School of Psychology, Exploring changes in identity in family recovery processes 2013
  • Bachelor of Psychology in Psychology, Psychology 2007
  • B.E. in Education, University of Wollongong, Education 1992

Teaching Overview

  • 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.

Full Name

  • Dr. Kellie Buckley-Walker

Mailing Address

  • Northfields Ave

    Building 67, room 327

    Kieraville

    NSW

    2522

    Australia

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