Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 19th Annual Research Forum at Edith Cowan University Building 17, Mt Lawley Campus Forum 2004 Schedule Presentations on Saturday 7 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 [Upstairs, outside Room 17.221. Refreshments will be available ongoing)		Foyer
10:00-10:10 Plenary	President's Welcome in the Lecture Theatre of Building 17		17.103
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
10.15-10.45 Parallel 1	Glenda Raison	The design and evaluation of a cooperative reading strategy for children with reading difficulties	17.102
	Lim Hwee Ling	Creating and re-using learning objects: A constructivist approach	17.103
	Lynette Rodriguez	The novice Aboriginal researcher researching in Aboriginal contexts: A bag of mixed emotions?	17.123
	Jumiati Ismail	Interviewing business elites: A researcher's experiences and challenges	17.125
	SMEC Symposium Peter Taylor and Grady Venville Symposium Leaders	Critical arts based research: Transformative professional development for teachers from 'developing' countries	17.201
	Madihah Khalid	Enhancing students' mathematics performance through cooperative learning	17.218
10.50-11.20 Parallel 2	Shelda Bairstow and Lesley Newhouse-Maiden	The efficacy of Grace Fernald's VAKT method for improving the performance of children with reading difficulties	17.102
	Doug Reid	So you want to teach online: Factors affecting the capabilities of online tutors	17.103
	Prem Mudhan	Improving the participation of Aboriginal students in post-compulsory education: A case for place conscious education	17.123
	Moira Watson and Llandis Barratt-Pugh	Researching management development: The case of BankWest	17.125
	Priscilla Aliawi	A critical autoethnography of cultural learning and IT integration in PNG schools	17.201
	Gary Partington and Ann Galloway	Effective teaching of Indigenous students with conductive hearing loss	17.218
11.25-11.55 Parallel 3	Christine Glass	Supporting professionals in action research: Carrot or stick?	17.102
	Vikki Pedalina, Peter Taylor and Martin Dougiamas	Teachers' beliefs and values in transformative online learning	17.103
	Sophie Lee	Teachers' perceptions of aboriginal education in Taiwan: A mixed methods case study	17.123
	Kathleen Baldwin	Situating the author: Factoring personal biography into methodological choices for postgraduate research	17.125
	Paguy Rungvilaicharoen	Postmodern writing explorations of learning and teaching science in Thai culture	17.201
	Pina Tarricone	Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to aid the demystification of the construct of metacognition	17.218
12.00-12.30 Parallel 4	Chris Conlan	About face: Linguistic politeness and illocutionary point in Australian English and in two Asian varieties	17.102
	Carole Steketee	ICT as an integral teaching and learning tool: UNDA's experience	17.103
	Agnes Meerwald	Chineseness at the crossroads	17.123
	Greg Thompson	The geneology of connectedness	17.125
	Amos Veremachi	Cultural context in understanding science in Mozambique: A self reflection	17.201
12:30-1:30	Lunch in Cafeteria
1.35-2.25 Plenary	Presentation of Postgraduate Awards Presentation of Early Career Award Address by ECA winner Jaya Earnest Presentation of WAIER Fellowships		Lecture Theatre 17.103
2:30-3:00 Parallel 5	Pat Forster, Vaille Dawson and Doug Reid	Assessing ability to teach with ICT	17.102
	Lee Partridge	In a world of their own: A new approach to understanding the actions of adolescent boys diagnosed ADHD	17.103
	Regina Gitau	Interviewing primary aged students about their classroom behaviour	17.123
	Thelma Blackford	Curriculum reform and the postmodern condition	17.125
	Research Methodology Workshop Rob Phillips (1 hour)	A scaffolded approach to the design of evaluation research studies: Application to educational technology	17.201
3:05-3.35 Parallel 6	Rekha Koul and Darrell Fisher	Teacher-student interpersonal behaviour and its associations with cultural and gender differences, student attitudes...	17.102
	Christine Buckley	Researching up: Power, politics and trade offs	17.103
	Chris Hackett	The formation of inexperienced religious education teachers during a period of curriculum change	17.123
	Kim Jinhee, Andrew Taggart and Dawn Penney	Developing student centred pedagogies through international research	17.125
	Research Methodology Workshop Rob Phillips (cont.)	A scaffolded approach to the design of evaluation research studies: Application to educational technology	17.201
3:40-4:10 Parallel 7	Christine Howitt	The use of critical incident vignettes to share a pre-service primary teacher's science learning journey	17.102
	Olabisi Kuteyi	Learning community: A gateway to eliciting students' voices in their learning - a Nigerian case study	17.103
	Robert Dixon	The Fiji Education Sector Program (FESP): An evaluation of the two executive tours of WA during 2004	17.123
4.15-5.15	Post Conference Happy Hour		Foyer