Claire Wyatt-Smith

Claire Wyatt-Smith is Professor of Educational Assessment and Literacy and Director of the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education at Australian Catholic University (ACU). She also serves as Director of the Research Centre for Digital Data and Assessment in Education at ACU. Her leadership extends to major national initiatives including the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) across 19 Australian higher education institutions.

Professor Wyatt-Smith's research focuses on assessment standards, professional judgment, and the implications of digital disruption for teacher professionalism. Her work addresses critical issues in initial teacher education, assessment and learning analytics, human judgment and moderation practices, language and literacy education, and digital assessment. She has examined assessment through research, practice, and policy lenses with extensive cross-domain collaborations.

Her recent publications reveal significant trends toward AI integration in educational assessment, post-pandemic assessment practices, teacher judgment development, and the intersection of large-scale and classroom assessment. These works demonstrate her focus on how digital technologies reshape assessment practices while maintaining attention to equity, professional judgment, and standards implementation across diverse educational contexts.

• 2020 European e-Learning Excellence Awards (second place)
• ACU Vice-Chancellor's Staff Excellence Medal (2018)
• Australian Council for Educational Leaders Queensland Honorary Fellowship (2015)
• Research Excellence Award, Griffith University
• Griffith University Arts, Education and Law Faculty Group Award (2012)

As a Full HDR Supervisor, Professor Wyatt-Smith has secured substantial research funding from the Australian Research Council (including multiple Discovery and Linkage projects from 2011-2025), national and state governments, and international educational agencies. Her major projects include the ARC-funded study on teacher judgment of student samples, the GTPA initiative across six Australian states, and the NAPLAN review involving multiple Australian jurisdictions. She has published extensively in leading international journals and with major academic presses including Routledge, Sage, and Springer, where she serves as Foundation Editor for two book series.

Professor Wyatt-Smith leads the Research Centre for Digital Data and Assessment in Education, which focuses on digital learning assessment, big data, and learning analytics. Her team collaborates with education authorities across Australian states and territories, industry partners, and international organizations including UNESCO on projects addressing assessment standards, teacher professionalism, and digital disruption in education.