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All stakeholder groups 1 had slightly different perceptions about what parties want, need or expect in commercial dispute resolution. Importantly, no one sees things in the same way as parties. The biggest gap was often found between parties and advisors.

The GPC Austin Report is one of the North American suite of reports providing insight into the commercial dispute resolution (DR) landscape in North America.

The GPC Austin Report explores the characteristics of users of DR in Austin, how the market responds to their needs, obstacles and challenges facing their jurisdiction and provides a vision for the future of commercial DR in Austin.

The GPC Baltimore Report is one of the North American suite of reports providing insight into the commercial dispute resolution (DR) landscape in North America.

The GPC Baltimore Report Report explores the characteristics of users of DR in Baltimore, how the market responds to their needs, obstacles and challenges facing their jurisdiction and provides a vision for the future of commercial DR in Baltimore.

The GPC Los Angeles Report is one of the North American suite of reports providing insight into the commercial dispute resolution (DR) landscape in North America.

The GPC Los Angeles Report explores the characteristics of users of DR in Los Angeles, how the market responds to their needs, obstacles and challenges facing their jurisdiction and provides a vision for the future of commercial DR in Los Angeles.

The GPC Miami Report is one of the North American suite of reports providing insight into the commercial dispute resolution (DR) landscape in North America.

The GPC Miami Report explores the characteristics of users of DR in Miami, how the market responds to their needs, obstacles and challenges facing their jurisdiction and provides a vision for the future of commercial DR in Miami.

The GPC New York Report is one of the North American suite of reports providing insight into the commercial dispute resolution (DR) landscape in North America.

The GPC New York Report explores the characteristics of users of DR in New York, how the market responds to their needs, obstacles and challenges facing their jurisdiction and provides a vision for the future of commercial DR in New York.

Research into neurodiversity is on the rise. As the concept makes its way into the zeitgeist, it's time for us to start thinking about the many implications for mediation. This paper outlines several common features of neurodiversity and raises the possibility that traditional dispute resolution strategies may place neurodiverse people at a significant disadvantage in dispute resolution.

The Effectiveness Survey was conducted as part of the review of the National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS) in Australia. This report is part 1 of a series of findings from the Effectiveness Survey and provides insight into the variety of practitioners and organisations who operate within the NMAS.

Over the past seven years the Assessment Research Centre at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has worked with the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne. The work has emphasised the development of reading comprehension performances by students, which were promoted and assisted by teachers targeting instruction to the level of development or the Vygotsky zone of proximal development (1974). The hypothesis was that if the teachers targeted instruction where students were most ready to learn, improvements in performance would be pronounced. By and large this has remained the case for the Catholic schools in Melbourne. Four years ago the project was expanded to include DEECD schools in Victoria and expanded to focus on mathematics as well as reading comprehension. Similar results were obtained but gains were less pronounced. The hypothesis was still that if targeted instruction could be aimed at the level of development or the zone of proximal development, increased improvement would be achieved. It became clear that most of the improvement occurred at lower levels of proficiency. Smaller gains were made at the higher order skills level of reading comprehension or mathematics. This was examined further using a series of workshops with teachers. The participating teachers were able to freely offer options and strategies for student development in mathematics and reading at lower order skill levels. However, they were unable to provide strategies to develop higher order skills in either mathematics or reading comprehension. This led to some intriguing issues associated with the rhetoric of 'closing the gap' and may have serious implications for both in-service and preservice teacher education.