Portfolios have evolved in Australia from the authentic assessment movement with its emphasis on performance based and situated assessment, and the mandate of outcomes based education, a legacy of the national curriculum. ...

The use of writing groups to support students undertaking post-graduate research within universities has begun to receive attention from academic supervisors and doctoral researchers. Very little has been written by doctoral ...

Edge detection plays an important role in image processing area. This paper presents an edge detection method based on bilateral filtering which achieves better performance than single Gaussian filtering. In this form ...

Existing research on doctoral education documents levels of satisfaction, the difficulties students face and variations according to demographic variables. Cognitive dimensions of learning are emphasised, and calls to ...

This article explores the role of publication in taking forward the work of the doctorate. Low publication rates from doctoral degrees have been noted as a problem in the quality of doctoral education for preparing students ...

The Pacific Islands provide an example of cultural heterogeneity compounded with economic, historical and geographic backgrounds that limit the scope for educational and vocational achievements as well as the study of ...

This article presents a sketch for a theory of the rhetorics involved in categorisation and the creation of culture in online communities. Persuasion, or shaping perceptions of the world, is never incidental to social ...

Agriculture, industry and medicine are being altered by new biotechnologies. Biotechnology education is important because today's students and citizens will make decisions about the development and application of these ...

Teacher education has become the subject of increasing scrutiny and general reviews often recommend change. This article reports the author’s perceptions of and reflection on an evolving secondary teacher education ...