Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 27th Annual Research Forum: Transforming practice: The value of educational research University of Notre Dame, 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Saturday 11 August 2012 Forum 2012 Program Presentations on Saturday 11 August [Abstracts] [Forum Invitation]

The Forum activities are in The University of Notre Dame Australia's new education building, the Tannock Hall of Education, corner of Cliff and Croke Streets, Fremantle. Consult your street directory for parking locations, or for public transport, note the close proximity to Fremantle Railway Station. For campus maps see [Campus locations] and select [Google Maps Fremantle] or [PDF Map Fremantle].

The program given below is a draft subject to change. We estimate that the allocations of times for presenters will be finalised by about midday 8 August 2012. If you have a pressing need for a particular timing for your presentation, please advise by email to c.mcbeath@bigpond.com before end Monday 6 August.

1.00-1.40 Plenary session	Opening: Dr Sue Beltman, President of WAIER Keynote lecture and feature presentation:     Professor Gary Partington: [Abstract]		Room 101
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
1.45-2.10 Parallel 1	Jeffrey Brown	Slowmation: A multimodal strategy for engaging children with primary science	Room 201
	Elaine Lewis, Catherine Baudains & Caroline Mansfield	Reflections on a sustainability continuum in a primary school context	Room 202
	Eloise Cole and Nicola Griffiths	Replicate or re-create? Delivering face to face units in an online environment	Computer Lab 203
	Dianne Chambers	Assistive technology and education assistants: Perceptions of efficacy and use in the classroom	Room 301
	Ildeniz Ozverir & Jan Herrington	Task-based authentic learning activities in computer assisted foreign language learning	Room 302
2.10-2.35 Parallel 2	Yang Liu & David F. Treagust	The functional roles for considering learning biological concepts with diagrams and text	Room 201
	Greg Thompson	Just how 'high-stakes' is NAPLAN? Teacher perceptions of the effects of NAPLAN in WA and SA	Room 202
	Jenni Parker	Authentic e-design: An online professional development course for higher education practitioners	Computer Lab 203
	Veronica Gardiner, Wendy Cumming-Potvin & Sandra Hesterman	Transforming professional learning: Scaffolding primary school teachers in a multiliteracies book club	Room 301
	Khairiah Syahabuddin & Russell F. Waugh	Students' ability in English reading comprehension by gender and bilingual and monolingual learning: An Acehnese case	Room 302
2.35-3.00 Parallel 3	Lorraine Jacob	Teachers developing knowledge and mathematics classroom practice in remote Indigenous communities	Room 201
	Fiona Cumming & Melanie Nash	Social marginalisation and wellbeing: Exploring an outdoor pedagogical approach to learning to promote self esteem and engagement	Room 202
	Pauline Roberts	Using the e-learning life cycle to plan and review and environment to develop reflection in pre-service teachers	Computer Lab 203
	Gillian Kirk	Case studies of how teachers support kindergarten children's social and emotional development	Room 301
	Liyan Liu	Development of an English classroom questionnaire in China	Room 302
3.00-3.25 Parallel 4	Josephine Sia	High school students' proficiency and confidence levels in displaying their understanding of basic electrolysis concepts	Room 201
	Sonia Ferns	Using an evidence-based approach to engage teaching staff in curriculum development and reform	Room 202
	Jan Herrington, Jenni Parker & Dani Boase-Jelinek	An authentic exam: Paradox or partnership?	Computer Lab 203
	Parisa Ebtekar	Language learning and identity: Immigrant women of Afghan and Iranian origin in Australia	Room 302
3.25-3.50	Coffee break
3.50-4.15 Parallel 5	Stephanie Kildare & Christopher Conlan	Codification and practice: The apostrophe in contemporary Australian English	Room 201
	Pina Tarricone	Outline of the relationship between metacognition and ill structured problem solving	Room 202
	Matthew Kemp, Timothy Molloy, Marina Pajic & Elaine Chapman	Peer relationships and the biomedical doctorate: A key component of the contemporary learning environment	Computer Lab 203
	Jenny Davis	The legitimate consumers: Private tuition for primary school aged students	Room 301
	Glenda Cain	Service-learning as a way of developing pre-service teachers' knowledge, perceptions, and cultural awareness of Indigenous education	Room 302
4.15-4.40 Parallel 6	Sulfasyah, Caroline Barratt-Pugh & Yvonne Haig	Evaluating the implementation of the Indonesian curriculum in the teaching of writing in Year Two	Room 201
	Antonella Poncini	The bishops' religious literacy assessment: How do Religious Education teachers in WA Catholic schools perceive this standardised assessment?	Room 202
	Eva Dobozy & Bronwen Dalziel	Implementing knowledge-centric transdisciplinary pedagogical templates	Computer Lab 203
	Lisette Hornstra & Caroline Mansfield	Teacher perceptions of their students and their motivational practices	Room 301
	Helen CD McCarthy	Backboards to blackboards: A critical auto/ethnographic study of the struggle for culturally-sensitive educational pathways for Aboriginal girls	Room 302
4.40-5.05 Parallel 7	Christopher Conlan	"What is this thing called Love?" or "What is this thing called, love?": Transcribing interview data for use in qualitative research	Room 201
	Richard Patrick Branson	Discourse analysis and the religious education class	Room 202
	Vaille Dawson	A pilot program to build research competence in teaching and learning	Computer Lab 203
	Janean Robinson	Transforming our practice: Listening to student voice	Room 301
	Roslyn (Rose) Carnes	The interplay between ongoing historical trauma and yet to be acknowledged first nations sovereignty	Room 302
5.10-6.00	Sundowner: [Postgraduate Awards] and [Early Career Award]

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