Bill Allen Author & Illustrator

Kylie Readman is the Pro Vice Chancellor - Education at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Her first whole-of-university leadership role was as the Director of the Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia. Kylie is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2011, she received a national Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation in acknowledgment of her innovative partnerships to improve assessment practice. She is also the recipient of the 2010 USC Vice Chancellor's Medal for Learning and Teaching. Kylie's research includes innovations in assessment to enhance student learning, the role of leadership and in learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment design, and the uses of technology for learning, particularly in relation to assessment. Kylie has designed and taught courses in pedagogy, assessment and curriculum at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for a number of years. Bill Allen is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Edith Cowan University and previously held a similar position at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has taught principles of teaching, learning and assessment, Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum and methods and senior secondary curriculum, to undergraduate and post-graduate students. Bill has worked in the professional development of teachers and principals from Indonesia, particularly in the provinces of Papua, West Papua and Nusa Tengarra Timor. He was in a team, with Merv Hyde, that won a Commonwealth Office of Learning and Teaching Citation in 2011 for its work with Papuan teachers. Nathanael Reinertsen is a Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). He works in a team that develops large-scale language and literacy assessments for state, national and international clients. His research interests include the professional development benefits of marking large-scale assessments, and the automated scoring of writing. Nathanael is a Subject Matter Expert in the Graduate Certificate of Education (Assessment of Student Learning), and is an online facilitator for ACER's Understanding Rasch Measurement Theory course. Prior to working in test development, he taught high school English and English as an Additional Language/Dialect in Western Australia.