| 10:00-10:30 | Day and Late Registration and collection of WAIER Forum materials | Foyer |
| 10:30-10:55 | President's Welcome and Introduction of Executive
Housekeeping, Location of rooms, lunch, afternoon tea and
happy hour arrangements. Presentation information. | Lecture
Theatre |
| Time | Session code, presenters and title | Room |
11:00-11:25
Session A |
A.1 | Lesley P. Newhouse-Maiden | Afternoon tea with Kathy White - a country teachers story: The quest for self and identity in teaching during the early 1940s and 1970s | 3.110 |
| A.2 | Bob Peck | Explicit standards for high stakes assessment | 3.111 |
| A.3 | Gail Chittleborough, David F. Treagust and Thapelo L. Mamiala | Contradictions in secondary students' understanding of scientific models | 3.112 |
| A.4 | Jaya Earnest and David Treagust | Challenges to science education reform in Rwanda | 3.211 |
| A.5 | Margaret Sutherland | Why are students failing? Is mainstreaming the cause? | 3.212 |
| A.6 | Paul Newhouse | The potential of wireless networking in a primary school | 3.101 |
11:30-11:55
Session B | B.1 | Anthea Taylor | Interviewing adolescent boys: Revisiting the telephone | 3.110 |
| B.2 | Jan Gray | Non-attendance policy and practice: A form of social exclusion in Western Australia | 3.111 |
| B.3 | Georgia Carragher | Development and evaluation of a youth driven coordinated individual care plan program to meet needs and problems identified by ADHD adolescents | 3.112 |
| B.4 | Farzad Sharifian | The effect of self generated cues on ESL learners' recall of narrative texts | 3.211 |
| B.5 | David Budge | Accelerated learning: Possibilities and pitfalls for education | 3.212 |
| B.6 | Alison Young, Neil Drew, Lisbeth Pike, Julie Pooley and Laureen Breen | Peer mentoring for first year university students | 3.101 |
| B.7 | Sarah Hopkins | Critical literacy and numeracy: How are values taught and what are the cultural considerations? | 3.213 |
12:00-12:25
Session C | C.1 | Susan McKenzie | From research question to research design: Making the process explicit | 3.110 |
| C.2 | Thapelo L. Mamiala and David F Treagust | Teachers' use of explanations in upper secondary chemistry lessons | 3.111 |
| C.3 | Alison Bunker | Students' conceptions of learning: What are they and how do we research them? | 3.112 |
| C.4 | Lou Siragusa | Instructional design meets online learning in higher education | 3.211 |
| C.5 | David Budge | Speed reading: How fast can we really read? | 3.212 |
| C.6 | Rees Barrett and Graeme Lock | Standards framework: Developing scales of achievement in post-compulsory education | 3.101 |
| C.7 | Deidra Young | Features of effective schools: Four case studies which focus on teacher morale and stress | 3.213 |
12:30-1:15
Lunch |
Postgraduate Awards Presentation
Presented by President of WAIER Associate Professor Gary Partington
This award is presented to the postgraduate student from each participating university who produces the best piece of educational research for that year. The winners this year are:
Peta Edwards - Curtin University
Gay Ward - University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth Tuettemann - University of WA
Rose Senior - Edith Cowan University
Karen Glaister - Murdoch University
Early Career Award Presentation
This prestigous award is a highlight of the WAIER Forum and is conferred in recognition of excellence in research and potential for further outstanding educational research. The Nominees this year are:
Paul Newhouse Anthony Rickards Lesley Vidovich
and as announced at the Forum, the Early Career Award Winner is:
Lesley Vidovich
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Staff
Common Room |
| 1.15-2.00 | Address by Early Career Award Winner |
| Time | Session code, presenters and title | Room |
2:00-2:25
Session D | D.1 | Rita Pasqualini | ABC of safe text skills | 3.110 |
| D.2 | Elizabeth Tuettemann | Coupling relationships and education? A grounded theory of couple relationships offers insights relevant to educational settings | 3.111 |
| D.3 | Maria Northcote and Amanda Kendle | Written communication skills for online learning | 3.112 |
| D.4 | Lesley Payne and Gay Ward | Small private schools: A study of the nature of the governing structures, the decision-making processes employed and the perceived congruence of these with the schools' philosophies | 3.211 |
| D.5 | Thelma Blackford | Correlating CIE Foundation Studies ESL students' approaches to learning with their uses of references in argumentative research essays | 3.212 |
| D.6 | Ray Webster | Cognitive profiles and interface design for individual learning environments | 3.101 |
2:30-2:55
Session E | E.1 | Francis Donohoe | Two cultures: Big city and small country | 3.110 |
| E.2 | Helen Wildy and William Louden | Cases for capturing the essence of leadership: School principal performance standards in Australia and New Zealand | 3.111 |
| E.3 | Martin Forsey | Disturbing the millpond: Ethnographic reflections on organisational change in a local high school | 3.112 |
| E.4 | Susan Beltman | Help or hindrance? The role others play in motivational development | 3.211 |
| E.5 | Andrew Thompson | Redefining the place to learn | 3.212 |
| E.6 | Gay Ward | Narrative, meaning making and personal development: Teachers' storied experience in Montessori, Steiner and other primary classrooms | 3.101 |
3:00-3:25
Session F | F.1 | Sid Nair and Darrell Fisher | Post compulsory science students' perceptions of classroom learning environments | 3.110 |
| F.2 | Helen Wildy, Simon Clarke and Bill Louden | School principals' performance: Linking standards and assessments | 3.111 |
| F.3 | Jill Aldridge | Using critical ethnographies in a study of science classroom learning environments in Taiwan and Australia | 3.112 |
| F.4 | Philip Paioff | Performance management: Complex reform in a devolving system of Western Australian education | 3.211 |
| F.5 | Peta Edwards and Geoff Giddings | Encouragement of meaningful learning through change to the learning environment: process and product | 3.212 |
| F.6 | Roger Atkinson and Clare McBeath | Publishing online: Coming ready or not | 3.101 |
3:30-3:55
Session G | G.1 | Vanessa Chang and Kum Leng Chin | Teaching and learning issues with international students | 3.110 |
| G.2 | Angela McCarthy | Choosing Catholic secondary education - a study in progress | 3.111 |
| G.3 | Janet Hunter and Jan Gray | Reframing pedagogy, literacy and attendance policy to interrupt the alienation cycle | 3.112 |
| G.4 | K. L. Chin and V. Chang | The impact of cultural diversity on web based learning | 3.211 |
| G.5 | Irene P. A. Cheong and David F. Treagust | Young people's ecological beliefs, environmental awareness and actions: The influence of culture and institutional structures | 3.212 |
| G.6 | David Geelan, Helen Wildy, William Louden and John Wallace | "They shall have abundance...": Achievement and advantage in Year 12 | 3.101 |
| 4.00 | Post Conference Happy Hour | Foyer |
