Dr Jennifer Bryce is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for
Educational Research in the Assessment and Reporting research program.
She has many years of experience in test development, particularly in humanities and the
arts, reflecting her interest in arts education and lifelong learning. She also
undertakes projects that involve qualitative research.
She has completed an evaluation of school-based arts programs with Ms Juliette
Mendelovits, Dr Adrian Beavis and Ms Joy McQueen for the Australian Government and the
Australia Council, and has undertaken other studies of learning through the arts. Related
to this is core-funded work on Lifelong Learning, a report on case studies with Mr Graeme
Withers: Engaging secondary school students in lifelong learning, and with Mr Graeme
Withers, Ms Tracey Frigo and Dr Phil McKenzie: The Era of Lifelong Learning: Implications
for Secondary Schools.
Dr Bryce’s research interests include the conceptualisation and assessment of generic
skills, in particular, interpersonal understanding. The title of her doctorate, completed
in 2003, is Constructing Intra and Interpersonal Competencies in a Context of Lifelong
Learning. Through this work she has presented papers and conducted workshops on the role
of Emotional Intelligence in secondary school education and recruitment to industry. She
conducted a study of generic key competencies in the arts for the (then) Department of
Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) and has worked on projects
with Dr Doug McCurry on the conceptualisation and assessment of key competencies/ generic
employability skills.
Dr Bryce joined the Australian Council for Educational Research in 1992. Prior to this
she worked as a high school teacher (including careers and work education) and for 12
years in a university (La Trobe, School of Health Sciences, Department of Educational
Resources).
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