Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 21st Annual Research Forum at Edith Cowan University Building 17, Mt Lawley Campus Forum 2006 Schedule Presentations on Saturday 5 August [ Abstracts ] [ Forum Invitation ] [ Contents of Proceedings ]

The Forum activities are in Building 17. We recommend car parking on the northern side adjacent to the Central Avenue entrance, and near Building 17, as parking in other areas of the campus may be congested by other activities - see ECU Campus Maps (select Mt Lawley). Saturday parking is free.

9.30-10.00	Registration and Coffee and Muffins in the Foyer of Building 17 [ Refreshments will be available ongoing ]		Foyer
10.00-10.10 Plenary	President's Welcome in the Lecture Theatre of Building 17		17.157
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
10.15-10.45 Parallel 1	Philip Chien	Development, validation and use of an instrument for assessing business management education learning environments: The BMELE inventory	17.102
	Grace Oakley, Janet Fellowes, Belinda Nelson	Helping children comprehend Internet texts: The LUCC Plan	17.103
	Peter Charles Taylor (Chair) Frieda Hakadiva	SMEC Symposium: Critical autoethnography (first of four consecutive sessions) Investigating aspects of language and culture and their impact on the teaching and learning of maths	17.123
	David Ansell (Chair) [Introduction] David Ansell, Peter Reynolds and Paul Stewart Brian English, David Ansell, Linda Moore and Peter Reynolds	DET Participation Directorate Symposium (first of two consecutive sessions each with two papers) Cultural change and raising the school leaving age Successful programs for Indigenous youth in rural and remote WA	17.218
	Julie-Anne Ellis	Students at educational risk: An interpretivist study of micro level policy implementation in three WA Government primary schools	17.219
10.50-11.20 Parallel 2	Maria Northcote	Educational and epistemological beliefs: Exploring blurred boundaries	17.102
	Lou Siragusa	Quality eLearning: Designing pedagogically effective web based environments for enhancing student online learning in higher education	17.103
	Dun Nkhoma Kasoka	SMEC Symposium: Critical autoethnography (second of four consecutive sessions) The gender gap in mathematics education: Cultural factors influencing learning in Malawi	17.123
	David Ansell, Peter Reynolds and Paul Stewart David Ansell, Paul Stewart and Peter Reynolds	DET Participation Directorate Symposium (second of two consecutive sessions each with two papers) Validating a participation risk factor instrument Scenarios for Year 12 in 2008	17.218
	Zsuzsa Millei	Educating or regulating parents? What a parent education website 'teaches' us	17.219
11.25-11.55 Parallel 3	Bill Leadbetter, Lesley Newhouse-Maiden and Eva Dobozy	Laying bare the hidden curriculum: Exploring values education with pre-service teachers	17.102
	Anne-Marie Chase	Student use of digital technologies in and out of school	17.103
	Emilia Afonso	SMEC Symposium: Critical autoethnography (third of four consecutive sessions) Developing a culturally inclusive philosophy of science teacher education in Mozambique	17.123
	John O'Rourke	Academic and social support mechanisms for adolescents with mild disabilities in inclusive classrooms: Development and evaluation	17.218
	Maria Fiocco	'Glonacal' contexts: Internationalisation policy in the Australian higher education sector and the development of pathway programs	17.219
12.00-12.30 Parallel 4	Brad Gobby	Captured becomings in the boys' education debate	17.102
	John Bednall	Devising a phenomenological study within the qualitative paradigm	17.103
	Bal Chandra Luitel (Discussant) Alberto Cupane	SMEC Symposium: Critical autoethnography (fourth of four consecutive sessions) Towards a culture-sensitive pedagogy of science teacher education in Mozambique	17.123
	Rekha B Koul and Darrell L Fisher	Development, validation and application of an assessment questionnaire using student perceptions	17.218
	Laura Perry	A model for conceptualising democratic education	17.219
12.30-1.30	Lunch in Cafeteria
1.30-2.50 Plenary	Presentation of WAIER Fellowships Presentation of Postgraduate Awards Presentation of Early Career Award		Lecture Theatre 17.157
2.55-3.25 Parallel 5	Jane Pearce	"It's not rocket science": But is teaching ordinary?	17.102
	Penny Tan	Conducting online questionnaires	17.103
	Dawn Darlaston-Jones	Striving for excellence: Challenges and tensions of teaching behavioural science to a large class of diverse disciplines	17.123
	Glenn Savage	Silencing the everyday experiences of youth? Issues of subjectivity, corporate ideology and popular culture in the English classroom	17.218
	Christine Buckley	Making the most of participants: Applying the Delphi Technique to policy and research	17.219
3.30-4.00 Parallel 6	Rosemary Evans	Investigating the understanding of scientific literacy using personal meaning mapping as an interview technique	17.102
	Janet Fellowes	Boys and writing: Attentiveness levels and the impact of single gender classes	17.103
	Abe Kassab and Kya Graves	Professional Learning Pathways Project (PLPP): Middle managers leading from the middle	17.123
	Margaret Sutherland	Identifying students with learning difficulties and finding solutions	17.218
	Elaine Lewis	The story of sustainability at a Montessori School	17.219
4.05-4.35 Parallel 7	Caroline Mansfield	There's more to life than marks: The increased emphasis on social goals during secondary school	17.102
	Jacqui Gannon	Why multi-modal? Best practice for the identification of talented and gifted primary school students	17.103
	Karen Murcia	An evidence based framework for developing scientific literacy	17.123
	Sharinaz A Hassan	Development of an instrument to assess metacognition knowledge in middle and secondary level classrooms	17.218
	Reisha Hartley and Zsuzsa Millei	"He's got to learn to keep his shoes on": How inclusive our schools really are	17.219
4.40-5.30	Post Conference Happy Hour		Foyer

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