Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 22nd Annual Research Forum at Edith Cowan University Building 17, Mt Lawley Campus Forum 2007 Schedule Final draft dated 3.15 pm 9 August replaces earlier versions. Presentations on Saturday 11 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 Lecture Theatre 17.103		17.103
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
10.15-10.45 Parallel 1	Sharinaz A. Hassan	The development of an instrument to assess metacognitive knowledge	17.102
	Frank Bate	Initial findings from a longitudinal study into the uses of ICTs in WA schools	17.103
	Chris Conlan	Politeness and pragmatic slippage: Global English and L1 Englishes	17.123
	Kim Balnaves	Popular sub-culture and school: Analysing popular sub-culture for transferal to a classroom	17.218
	Maria Northcote	University teachers' and students' educational beliefs: A comparison of the past and the present	17.219
10.50-11.20 Parallel 2	Cornelia Staats	Pretend play and pre-primary children with emotional and behavioural difficulties	17.102
	Lesley Newhouse-Maiden	The life-careers of women and girls: Addressing the gender gap in ICT industries and education	17.103
	Karen Murcia	Evaluating scientific literacy: The nature of students' engagement with science in the newspaper	17.123
	Jocasta Collier	Empathy and identity: Drama as an environmental educational tool	17.218
	Christine Cunningham	American international schools in Latin America: Ethical dilemmas in a world of elite privilege	17.219
11.25-11.55 Parallel 3	Pina Tarricone	What is metacognition and why is it fundamental to learning and important for educational research?	17.102
	Maria D'Cunha	Improving girls' access to, use of and career aspirations in ICT: A project pilot at Hampton Senior High School	17.103
	Sheena O'Hare	Literacy teaching for children with language disorders: Teachers' beliefs and practices	17.123
	Chris Hurst	Contextualising mathematics [Presentation cancelled]	17.218
	Rosemary S. Evans	The longevity of professional learning	17.219
12.00-12.30 Parallel 4	Geok-Hwa, Tor	Psychometric analysis of the Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire: Rasch model perspective	17.102
	Wee Loon Yeo	Home but away: An ethnographic study of Southeast Asian international students	17.103
	Laura B. Perry	The effect of school social composition on student achievement in Australia	17.123
	Delphine P Shaw	The pedagogic aspect of intergenerationalism	17.218
	Brad Gobby	Where's the gender and education debate gone? Out with equity in with efficiency	17.219
12.30-1.30	Lunch in Cafeteria
1.30-2.50 Plenary	Presentation of Postgraduate Awards Presentation of WAIER Fellowships to Dr Philip Paioff and Dr Susan Hall Presentation of Early Career Award to Dr Maria Northcote		Lecture Theatre 17.103
2.55-3.25 Parallel 5	Janean Robinson	An ethnographer swinging in the school policy jungle: Peeling the layers	17.102
	Christine Howitt	Interpreting science learning experiences through preservice primary teachers' eyes	17.103
	Joanne Godfrey	Sowing seeds for development: Cyril Jackson and rural schooling in WA	17.123
	Zsuzsa Millei	The politics of participation: Problematising the paradigm	17.218
	Eve Ruddock	Musical? I'm not even in the ballpark!	17.219
3.30-4.00 Parallel 6	Eva Dobozy, Terry DeJong, Sue Sharp, Julia Wren, Will Turner, Sue Spiers	The power of partnerships: Reflections on collaborative research	17.102
	Glenda Raison	Learning to teach and teaching to learn: Experiences of final year education students	17.103
	Angela McCarthy	Managing school choice	17.123
	Prem Mudhan	Retention and participation of Indigenous students in education: Some indicators for success	17.218
	Joan Pietersen	Community music and funding: An analysis of the programs of community music groups	17.219
4.05-4.35 Parallel 7	Christine Howitt, Michelle Acledan, Sharon Ramos, Harimas Sulanting	New eyes: International students' changing perceptions of how to conduct educational research	17.102
	Christine Glass	Becoming a teacher: Tom's story	17.103
	Maria Northcote	An affective PhD: Topic and process	17.123
4.40-5.30	Post Conference Happy Hour		Foyer

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