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Dr Sally Larsen

Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Building: E11, 139

Biography

Dr Sally Larsen is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Education. She has previously worked as a secondary English and French teacher, research project manager, and researcher in a government agency. Sally’s research is in the area of reading and maths development across primary and early secondary school in Australia. She investigates patterns of growth and change in reading and maths in these middle years of school, and predictors of longitudinal development in these skills. Sally uses quantitative research methodology, in particular, longitudinal and multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. She is interested in questions surrounding the measurement of constructs employed in quantitative education research. Sally is also interested in exploring whether findings from educational genetics research may or may not be relevant to schools systems and educational practices.

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