This submission does not directly seek to answer the 20 questions posted in the Consultation Paper (December 2023). However, the submission offers analysis and evidence on some matters the Panel has been asked to consider, per the Terms of Reference:
• to the appropriate extent of system-level support for teachers and schools in their teaching and learning work;
• whether and where mandates ought to apply; and
• which pedagogical approaches improve learning outcomes in literacy and numeracy.
Two streams of CIS research — on the science of learning and on evidence-based mathematics teaching more broadly — are therefore relevant. Both projects focus on instructional forms that have been demonstrated by evidence to advance the learning of all students (Consultation Paper Q2), but particularly disadvantaged learners (Consultation Paper Q11).
