The Commonwealth Department of Education and Training contracted the Centre for Program Evaluation at the University of Melbourne to conduct a systematic review of the key determinants of effective teaching, this report presents the findings of this review and presents recommendations for the use of these review findings in the context of teacher evaluation and professionalisation in Australia.

A systematic review of academic, grey, and policy documents that identify teacher quality characteristics and how they relate to school, teacher, and student outcomes was conducted. Based on these findings, recommendations were developed for how these findings can be used with the Review of Teacher Effectiveness Systems, Frameworks and Measures to inform teacher evaluation in Australia.