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  • Professional development of teacher educators: the eChange Project example 
    Schuck Sandra (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2002)
    The paper describes a professional development project which has the aim of promoting and supporting pedagogically sound use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a faculty of education in a university. ...
  • Rethinking e-learning design on generative learning principles 
    Shepherd, J.; Clendinning, J.; Schaverien, L. R (UNITEC Institute of Technology, 2002)
    As the latest in a long history of educational innovations implemented in the wake of technological advances, e-leaming appears to have adopted a widely accepted and largely technocentric instructional design paradigm, ...
  • Correlation between student performance in linear algebra and categories of a taxonomy 
    Reid, A.; Petocz, P.; Smith, G. H; Wood, L. N (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
    This paper concerns a study of the performance of students in a recent linear algebra examination. We investigated differences in performance in tasks requiring understanding of the concepts with those that required only ...
  • Generating meaning and visualising self: graphic symbolism and interactive online cartoon 
    Bamford Anne; Francois Andrew (Common Ground Publishing, 2002)
    From a visual literacy perspective, images engender a diversity of meanings. Cartooning is one form of visual expression that has the ability to present layers of understanding in suggestive forms combining visual and ...
  • Learning about e-learning: some insights into a postgraduate learning community 
    Schaverien Lynette (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc (IEEE), 2002)
    Now that the educational significance of learning communities is increasingly well recognised and means are available to make interactions possible electronically, on large scales, there are growing opportunities ...
  • Perceptions of difficulty 
    Wood, L. N; Smith, N. F (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
    Seventy students from a first semester calculus course ranked 8 mathematics tasks as to perceived difficulty before attempting these tasks and actual difficulty after completing the tasks. Students also completed ...
  • Pre-service Teachers Abroad: Australians in the Peoples Republic of China 
    Ljungdahl Lesley (Common Ground Publishing, 2002)
    This paper explores the perceptions of ten Australian pre-service teachers from the University of Technology Sydney who completed a teaching practicum in the People's Republic of China. It investigates their cultural ...
  • Variation and relevance structures for university teachers learning: bringing about change in ways of experiencing teaching 
    Mckenzie Jo (HERDSA, 2002)
    One aim of academic development is to help university teachers become aware of and capable of using student-focused ways of experiencing teaching. Phenomenographic approaches which focus on variation and relevance ...
  • Far transfer for complex problem solving: some important issues 
    Cornford, I. R (Australian Academic Press, 2002)
    Development of practical training programs to ensure effective transfer of learning is hampered by the fact that there are a number of different types of transfer. Of these different types. the one which may be considered ...
  • Learning about statistics and statistics learning 
    Reid, A.; Petocz, P. (Australian Association for Research Education, 2002)
    In the last two decades, awareness of students' conceptions of learning has altered the way in which we approach student learning, teaching and academic development. More recently, such 'generic' ideas about learning are ...
  • Teaching statistics and academic language in culturally diverse classrooms 
    Coutis, P.; Wood, L. N (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
    The last decade has seen a substantial increase in the cultural and academic diversity of commencing tertiary education cohorts. The challenge for mathematics and statistics educators is the development of curriculum ...
  • What does enhanced learning through computer-based technologies actually look like? 
    Yates, L. S; Hayes, D. N (Australian Association for Research in Education, 2002)
    A multi disciplinary interagency team is currently undertaking research in NSW government schools funded by the Australian Research Council through the Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research and Training Scheme ...
  • Sim Assessment: enhancing academics under-standing of assessment through computer simulation 
    Housego, S. C.; Lukito, L.; Howson, E.; Alexander, S. A.; Kandlbinder, P. A. (UNITEC Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Assessment of students is commonly seen as having two purposes: providing students with feedback on their progress (formative), and making judgements about an individual student's fulfilment of subject objectives ...
  • Designing Learning Activities for Learning Objects 
    Hawryszkiewycz, I. T (UNITEC Institute of Technology, 2002)
    Learning objects have been proposed as an approach to creating and sharing learning resources. There are further advantages to be gained if the objects can be reused. This paper emphasizes the creation of learning ...
  • The dynamics of effective group work: the marketing student's view 
    Young, L. C (Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, 2002)
    Group project work often forms an essential part of the assessment of marketing subjects. This paper presents some of the results of a study that considers the drivers of groups' functioning and the satisfaction of members ...
  • Using digital video to enhance authentic technology-mediated learning in science classrooms 
    Kearney Matthew (Australian Council for Computers in Education, 2002)
    Over the past decade, the field of educational technology has endorsed constructivism as a suitable referent for the development and meaningful use of appropriate software in education. Examples in science include the ...
  • Responsive evaluation of a musical play for pre-schoolers 
    De Vries Peter; Poston-Anderson Barbara (Australian Association for Research in Music Education, 2002)
    This paper focuses on a musical play, entitled The Peter Piper Pickled Pepper Mystery, written by a drama educator and music educator for pre-school children. The paper provides the rationale for the play's development, ...
  • Adult vocational university students: what do they want from their teachers? 
    Pithers Robert; Holland Anthony (Australian Academic Press, 2002)
    Most adult, vocational students enrolled in tertiary institutions now see themselves as clients or customers of the institution rather than merely as students. It would appear, therefore, to be reasonable to ascertain ...
  • Mathematics and Technological Literacy 
    Yasukawa Keiko (Centre for Research in Learning Mathematics, 2002)
  • Challenging current approaches to early technology education 
    Hall R; Schaverien Lynette (University of New England, 2002)
    Most previous early technology learning research has reported children's responses to short, intensive teacher-directed topics in diverse settings. Few studies have tracked children's sustained investigations of their ...