Western Australian Institute for Educational Research 31st Annual Research Forum: Local research, global focus The University of Notre Dame Australia, 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Saturday 6 August 2016 Forum 2016 Program Presentations on Saturday 6 August 2016 [Forum Invitation] [Abstracts]

The Forum activities are in The University of Notre Dame Australia's 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 [Fremantle Campus location] and select [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 31 July 2016. If you have a pressing need for a particular timing for your presentation, please advise by email to c.mcbeath@bigpond.com before end 30 July.

1.00-2.00 Plenary session	Opening: WAIER President, A/Prof Susan Beltman A word from our major sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank Panel presentation: Local research, global focus. A/Prof Laura Perry, Dr Paul Mercieca, Dr Rekha Koul, A/Prof Eva Dobozy. Facilitator: Saul Karnovsky		Room 101
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
2.05-2.30 Parallel 1	Elaine Lewis	Butterflies in the bushland: Embedding the cross curriculum priorities of the WA Curriculum	Room 201
	Catherine Reed	Montessori teaching and learning practices in an early childhood classroom in a remote Indigenous school	Room 202
	Ani Widayati	Teacher professionalism: The perception of vocational high school teachers in Yogyakarta	Room 301
	Julian Chen	Task-based language teaching for English as a Foreign Language learners in a 3-D multi-user virtual environment	Room 302
	Jenni Parker	How open educational resources can transform online learning	Computer lab 203
2.30-2.55 Parallel 2	Elaine Horne, D. F. Treagust & R. Groves	Teachers' interpretational frameworks for assessing students' understandings in biology	Room 201
	Sue Girak	Creative reuse: The impact art making has on raising environmental consciousness	Room 202
	Helen Dempsey	Early career casual teachers: Negotiating identity through communities of practice	Room 301
	He Yuanqian	Chinese high school English teachers' perceptions of L2 literacy and their practices	Room 302
	Huifen Jin, Jeremy Pagram & Martin Cooper	Teacher educators' and pre-service teachers' preparedness to use ICT: A WA perspective	Computer lab 203
2.55-3.20 Parallel 3	Kok-Sing Tang	Integrating literacy and science inquiry in the science classrooms	Room 201
	Paula Mildenhall & Barbara Sherriff	Using metaphors, models and multimodalities when teaching computational strategies	Room 202
	Helen Stone, B. Down & A. Taggart	Establishing a relationship with truth: Verisimilitude, one method of representing yourself in research	Room 301
	Susan Ledger	Local review of a global organisation: International Baccalaureate standards and practices	Room 302
	Lisa Paris & Julia Morris	Enhancing pre-service teacher connectedness through Facebook online learning communities	Computer lab 203
3.20-3.45	Coffee break
3.45-4.10 Parallel 4	Jennifer Blackweir, P. Merrotsy & H. Wildy	Attitudes towards mathematics: Development of an online, visual analogue scale	Room 201
	Julia E. Morris	Questioning art: Factors affecting students' cognitive engagement in responding	Room 202
	Laura D'Olimpio	Philosophy for Children and the general capabilities: Why critical and creative thinking is essential to education	Room 301
	Yibo Yang, S. Volet & C. Mansfield	Motives for Chinese international engineering doctoral students' decision to study in Australia	Room 302
	Sarah Seddon, S. J. Watson & Y. Andrews	The roles of student voice, metacognition, and academic self- efficacy in student disengagement	Computer lab 203
4.10-4.35 Parallel 5	Siew Yee Lim & Elaine Chapman	Effects of using history as a tool to teach mathematics on students' attitudes, anxiety and achievement	Room 201
	Theresa Jeewa	Considerations of teacher communication in the classroom	Room 202
	Donna Barwood	Shhh! Look who's delivering health education	Room 301
	Minerva Blancaneaux	Access and equity in Caribbean higher education: A qualitative analysis	Room 302
	Dwi Esti Andriani	Some recent developments in principal leadership at the primary school level in Indonesia	Computer lab 203
4.35-5.00 Parallel 6	Gregory Hine	Exploring reasons why secondary students do not enrol in higher-level mathematics courses	Room 201
	Margaret Merga	Do males prefer non-fiction and why does this matter?	Room 202
	Susan Ledger	International schools engaging at the local level: Breaking through the perceived cultural bubble	Room 301
	Brianna Caines, Stuart J. Watson, Yolanda Andrews & Lynette Vernon	Too stupid for higher education	Room 302
	Johanne Klap & Caroline Mansfield	School principals' leadership and wellbeing: A mindfulness intervention	Computer lab 203
5.00-6.00	Sundowner: [Postgraduate Awards] and [Early Career Award]

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