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  • Reaction evaluation and the vocational educator 
    Chappell Clive; Johnston Robyn (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    Most vocational educators and trainers often utilise a type of reaction-evaluation questionnaire to provide both themselves and administrators with feedback from their students and trainees. This paper looks at some of ...
  • Workplace change and organizational training practice 
    Chappell Clive; Johnston Robyn (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    The building of workplace capability has been a major focus for many organizations seeking to maintain their positioning in the more competitive globalislng market place. This effort has occurred contemporaneously with ...
  • Adoption of competency based training by business and industry 
    Cornford, I. R (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    Competency-based training continues to be a major underpinning element in the various VET policies developedby the Australian federal government. This is despite evidence that competency-based traming is not achieving ...
  • Linking communication to engineering 
    Saunders Shirley; Mcgregor Helen (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    There are many different educational models for developing communication skills and there is no conclusive research to determine which model is 'best' for teaching communication to undergraduate engineerrng students. ...
  • Minimal Mark-Up pof multiple choice exams using XML 
    Lister Raymond; Jerram Peter (Biomedical Multimedia Unit, The University of Melbourne, 2001)
    »e describe a minimal XML mark-up for multiple choice exams. In our system, exams may be generated at anytime. by choosing a subset of questions from a pool. Furthermore, the system randomises the order of the choices within ...
  • Generic competencies/skills 
    Cornford, I. R (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
  • A preliminary exploration of the knowledge/skills of metal trades third year apprentices after the introduction of CBT 
    Mills, H.; Cornford, I. R (Australian Academic Press, 2001)
    Competency-based training remains a major plank in government policy for VET reform. This is despite mounting evidence that competency-based training may not be leading to the desired increase in knowledge and performance. ...
  • The grammar of visual literacy within the world of interactive media 
    Bamford Anne (Common Ground Publishing, 2002)
    In interactive media, it is the spaces between the text that are as important to read as the text itself. Visual literacy is a vital form of reading in an increasingly pictorial world. This paper examines the grammar of ...
  • Learning and assessment in the workplace: models of practice 
    Johnston Rosemary; Hawke Geofrey (Australian Academic Press, 2002)
    In recent years a range of policy instruments have been introduced to Australian vocational education and training with the intention of strengthening the place of formal learning and assessment occurring in workplaces. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Researching the pedagogies of the new vocationalism 
    Chappell Clive (Australian Academic Press, 2002)
    Changes in work and work organisation have led to an emphasis on the development of new kinds of working identities, but there has been little empirical research on how these new identities are being constructed in ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Design for a Culturally Affirming Indigenous Computer Literacy Course 
    Dyson Laurel (UNITEC Institute of Technology, 2002)
    It is often assumed by universities that entry-level students possess the skills necessary to use computing facilities effectively. Yet computer literacy amongst Indigenous students remains unacceptably low. In this paper ...