Professor Claire Wyatt-Smith

Research Grants

  • 2008. Encouragement; Grant Scheme. Overcoming educational disadvantage by closing the literacy achievement gap: A focus on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), $15,000.

  • 2006-2009. ARC Linkage Scheme: Application ID: LP0668910: C. Wyatt-Smith & V. Klenowski, $664,459. A study of assessment and reporting reform: How teachers develop, share, and apply knowledge of standards-referenced assessment and reporting through moderation. (PIs: Elwood, J, Queen???s University, Belfast; Looney, A, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment). Industry Partners ??? Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.

  • 2003-2007. ARC Discovery Scheme. C. Wyatt-Smith, M. Levy & G. Castleton, $462,000. Using and creating knowledge in the high school years: Performance, production, process and value-adding in electronic curricular literacy.

  • Jul 2001 ??? Dec 2005. C. Wyatt-Smith & J. Cumming, $1.4 million. National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies and Projects Program, Department of Education, Science and Training.; National Co-ordination of Literacy Research Projects, including National Clearinghouse for Literacy and Numeracy Research.

  • 2004-2006. Department of Education, Science and Training State Grants Scheme: Effective teaching and learning practices for students with learning difficulties initiative.; Education Queensland, Catholic Education Commission, and Association of Independent Schools Queensland, in partnership with C. Wyatt-Smith & J. Elkins, $601,000.

  • 2005. Griffith University Encouragement Grant Scheme: The ecology of multiliteracies and learning, $15,000.

  • 2004-2005. Queensland Studies Authority Research Program. C. Wyatt-Smith, J. Cumming & J. Elkins, Teacher judgment of student literacy and numeracy performance, $54,000.

  • 2004. Griffith University Infrastructure Grant Scheme. C. Wyatt-Smith, A. Tourkey, B. Bartlett, S. Winn, S. Bridges, $70,000. A suite of computer-based equipment and technological innovations for assisting vision and hearing impaired students.

  • 2003. Quality Enhancement Grants. Internationalising the curriculum at Griffith University, $19,984.

  • 2002. Griffith University Research Grant Scheme. Examining the literacy-curriculum relationship across Years 1 to 12: Consequences for student achievement,; $25,000.


Research Consultancies

  • 2008. Education Queensland.; Johnson, G. & Wyatt-Smith, C.M. Evaluation of the impact of the Literacy- the Key to Learning: Framework for Action 2009-2010, $270,000.

  • 2008. Department of Education, Training and the Arts. Wyatt-Smith, C.M.; Evaluation of a 12 month trial of school-devised assessment model of comparable statewide assessment, $36,300.

  • 2008. Queensland Studies Authority. Wyatt-Smith, C.M.,& Matters, G. Senior Secondary Schooling Assessment. $90,000.

  • 2007. Department of Education and Training. Wyatt-Smith, C.M., & Gunn, S. Summary of the paper Evidence-based Research to Inform Policy and Practice in Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students Across the Stages of Schooling, $11,797.

  • 2006. Department of Education and Training. Wyatt-Smith, C.M., & Gunn, S. Evidence-based Research to Inform Policy and Practice in Improving Literacy Outcomes for Students Across the Stages of Schooling, $39,971.

  • 2006. Department of Education and Training, Victoria. Czislowski-McKenna, A.T., Cumming, J.J., Wyatt-Smith, C.M., & Elkins, J. Literacy teaching and learning in Victorian Schools, $42,500.

  • 2005. Department of Education, Science and Training, Department of Education, Qld., Catholic Education Commission and the Association of Independent Schools, with C. Wyatt-Smith as Researcher Evaluator and Academic Advisor. Literacy and Numeracy in the Middle Years of Schooling Project, $30,000.

  • 1998. Centre for Literacy Education Research, Griffith University, and Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Cumming, J., Wyatt-Smith, C., Ryan, J., & Doig, S.M. The literacy-curriculum interface: The literacy demands of the curriculum in post-compulsory schooling, $240,000.

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