Dr. Anna Fletcher
Associate Dean, Industry Cooperation
Dr Anna Fletcher is the Associate Dean Teaching Quality in the School of Education at Federation University Australia. Dr Fletcher’s research expertise and publications address three areas: 1) student agency, achievement and self-efficacy within classroom assessment from a perspective of social cognitive theory; 2) practitioner research and teachers’ capacity building; and 3) the role of education to build human capital in place-based contexts.
Anna has successfully led and project managed a number of funded mixed-methods projects into teachers’ capacity building and place-based regional development through education, resulting in projects being completed within budget and on time.
Anna represents Federation University on the national consortium of fifteen universities developing and implementing the Graduate Teaching Performance Assessment (GTPA). She is a highly active researcher who has instigated research partnerships at local, regional, and international levels (particularly with Scandinavia).
Self-assessment as a student-agentic zone of proximate competence development
A Possible Me? Inspiring Learning Among Regional Young People for the Future World of Work
Global challenges: South African and Australian students' experiences of emergency remote teaching
'More than Marking and Moderation': A Self-Study of Teacher Educator Learning through Engaging with Graduate Teaching Performance Assessment
A Flourishing Brain in the 21st Century: A Scoping Review of the Impact of Developing Good Habits for Mind, Brain, Well-Being, and Learning
Children's Self-assessment Plans to Inform Teaching and Provide Summative Data
Australia’s National Assessment Programme rubrics: An impetus for self-assessment?
Background: On an annual basis, students across Australia in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are assessed on...
An Invited Outsider or an Enriched Insider? Challenging Contextual Knowledge as a Critical Friend Researcher
Researchers conducting studies in communities have long taken an interest in exploring the...
The testing and learning revolution: the future of assessment in education
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Assessment to develop students’ strategies and competence as learners
Assessment has been called “the bridge between teaching and learning� (Wiliam, 2011, p. 50),...
Classroom assessment as a reciprocal practice to develop students’ agency: A social cognitive perspective
The links among theory, teaching practice, and evidence of student learning have increasingly...
Help seeking: agentic learners initiating feedback.
Effective feedback is an essential tool for making learning explicit and an essential feature of...
Assessment as a student-driven, reciprocal practice: a recalibrated, social cognitive perspective
Contemporary learning in Australia necessitates that students develop the capability to play an...
Exceeding expectations: scaffolding agentic engagement through assessment as learning
Background: The active involvement of learners as critical, reflective and capable agents in the...
Reimagining and Transforming Identity as Rural Researchers and Educators A (con)textual Fugue
This paper presents the educational and research journey of a group of rural academics as a...
How does student-directed assessment affect learning? Using assessment as a learning process
This study originated in reaction to the 2008 introduction in Australia of a nation-wide...
How voice-recognition software presents a useful transcription tool for qualitative and mixed methods researchers
Voice recognition (VR) software has increased in accuracy and ease of use over the last decade....