Learning & Teaching

Foundation Parents: Rural Roads to Reading Research Project

As we shared earlier in the year, our school is excited to be participating in a 3-year research project called ‘Rural Roads to Reading’ which is being conducted by researchers from the School of Education at La Trobe University. The project is understanding how schools across regional and rural Victoria are approaching the teaching of reading in the first three years of primary school.

The project will track our current Foundation students through to the end of Grade 2 and we have had many of our families consent for their child to be a part of the research. In Term 3, our Foundation students undertook an assessment on their oral language skills and reading skills.

The research team will shortly be emailing the parents and/or guardians of our Foundation students to contribute to the research by filling out a short, online questionnaire called the RAT-CP (Reading Anxiety Test). This questionnaire will take around 5 minutes to complete and provide information to the research team about how your child feels about reading.

If you would prefer to complete a paper-based version of the RAT-CP, please let your child’s classroom teacher know and we can provide this to you via the teacher.

Foundation parents, please keep an eye out in the coming weeks for an email from the La Trobe research team with a link to the questionnaire.

If you have any questions about the project or survey, you may directly contact the La Trobe University research team at reading@latrobe.edu.au