Research Fellow
BA(Hons) Monash, DipEd Melb, CertIV Workplace Training & Ass CAE
Ms Courtney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in ACER's Assessment and Reporting team. Her main area of interest is Literacy and Language, and she has recently been Team Leader for a team of fellow literacy and language researchers. She is currently working on a new Foreign Language Assessment, an optional module for PISA 2025. Other current work involves developing assessment of reading and writing for a large scale assessment in South East Asia, SEA PLM (South East Asian Primary Learning Metric). Previous work includes the position of content lead for the assessment of school student reading comprehension and writing in English for two large international assessments, in the UAE and in the UK.
Ms Courtney has broad experience of diverse cultures, working with colleagues in ACER’s India office and contributing to projects for Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Afghanistan. Previous work at ACER in the language and literacy area includes editing ACER’s Assessment of Language Competence (Italian and French) tasks, work on the diagnostic assessment of English reading skills for Early Years students, including authoring illustrated books, development of a reading assessment tool for at-risk youth, work on an Adult Literacy Assessment Tool for New Zealand, and a National Civics and Citizenship survey project. Ms Courtney has a special interest in the assessment of student writing.
Before joining ACER in 2008, Ms Courtney worked as a freelance writer of EAL (English as an additional language) educational materials, including curriculum-matched materials at all levels for the Parliament of Victoria. Ms Courtney has also written EAL textbook materials for RMIT, library titles and further education reports. She has worked as an IELTS assessor (International English Language Testing System) and on the Occupational English test for overseas medical practitioners, writing profession-specific materials to assess writing and speaking. She has many years’ experience as an English as an Additional Language Teacher both in Australia and overseas.
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About Louise Courtney
BA(Hons) Monash, DipEd Melb, CertIV Workplace Training & Ass CAE
Ms Courtney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research in ACER's Assessment and Reporting team. Her main area of interest is Literacy and Language, and she has recently been Team Leader for a team of fellow literacy and language researchers. She is currently working on a new Foreign Language Assessment, an optional module for PISA 2025. Other current work involves developing assessment of reading and writing for a large scale assessment in South East Asia, SEA PLM (South East Asian Primary Learning Metric). Previous work includes the position of content lead for the assessment of school student reading comprehension and writing in English for two large international assessments, in the UAE and in the UK.
Ms Courtney has broad experience of diverse cultures, working with colleagues in ACER’s India office and contributing to projects for Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Afghanistan. Previous work at ACER in the language and literacy area includes editing ACER’s Assessment of Language Competence (Italian and French) tasks, work on the diagnostic assessment of English reading skills for Early Years students, including authoring illustrated books, development of a reading assessment tool for at-risk youth, work on an Adult Literacy Assessment Tool for New Zealand, and a National Civics and Citizenship survey project. Ms Courtney has a special interest in the assessment of student writing.
Before joining ACER in 2008, Ms Courtney worked as a freelance writer of EAL (English as an additional language) educational materials, including curriculum-matched materials at all levels for the Parliament of Victoria. Ms Courtney has also written EAL textbook materials for RMIT, library titles and further education reports. She has worked as an IELTS assessor (International English Language Testing System) and on the Occupational English test for overseas medical practitioners, writing profession-specific materials to assess writing and speaking. She has many years’ experience as an English as an Additional Language Teacher both in Australia and overseas.
| Present | Assessment and Psychometric Research > Assessment and Reporting, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | |
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| Present | Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | |
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