Building capacity for Quality Teaching Rounds – Victoria. Final report

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) was commissioned by the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre (TTRC) at the University of Newcastle to conduct an independent randomised controlled trial (RCT), with the goal of examining effects of Quality Teaching Rounds (QTR) on student outcomes and teachers’ practice in Victorian high schools. TTRC recruited a total of 40 schools and obtained informed consent for 791 students and 160 teachers to participate in the study. There was minor reduction of the participants during the RCT, resulting in a final total of 147 teachers (92%), 786 students (99%) and 39 schools (98%) taking part in the study. Considering the pressures faced within schools in Victoria, with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive flooding, these attritions were not unexpected.