About the Author

Rhonda Farkota is a Research Fellow (Mathematics) at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). She has worked on a wide variety of projects for clients at international, national, state, and system levels. Her involvement has included being project director, test developer, and coordinator for test development, and she has examined and reported on international and state mathematics curriculum documents. Rhonda has just completed her doctoral research looking at the effects of the EMM program on students’ mathematics self-efficacy and achievement.