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Matthews, Kelly E.; Duck, Julie M.; Bartle, Emma – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
The "Tutors@UQ" programme provides an example of a formalised, institution-wide, cross-discipline, academic development programme to enhance the quality of teaching that has been maintained for seven years despite a pattern of substantial organisational change. We present a case study of the programme framed around a four-phase model of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Case Studies, Educational Change, Social Networks
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Alderman, Lyn – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
In Australia, a review of the higher education sector is usually triggered by a change in government leadership, followed by the development and implementation of the government's response in the form of a reform package to enact change. The aim of this study was to conduct an independent evaluation of a large-scale national government policy…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Leadership
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Main, Katherine; Pendergast, Donna – Professional Development in Education, 2017
An evaluation of the effectiveness of a large-scale professional development (PD) programme delivered to 258 schools in Queensland, Australia is presented. Formal evaluations were conducted at two stages during the programme using a tool developed from Desimone's five core features of effective PD. Descriptive statistics of 38 questions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Durrant, Joan; Plateau, Dominique Pierre; Ateah, Christine A.; Holden, George W.; Barker, Leslie A.; Stewart-Tufescu, Ashley; Jones, Alysha D.; Ly, Gia; Ahmed, Rashid – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Every day, almost one billion children around the world experience violent punishment. Eliminating all violence against children is a key target of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is a monumental challenge due to the diversity of cultural, economic and social contexts in which children live. Violence-prevention…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Relevance (Education), Violence, Prevention
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Boon, Helen J.; Maxwell, Bruce – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This paper provides a snapshot of the current approach to ethics education in accredited Australian pre-service teacher programs. Methods included a manual calendar search of ethics related subjects required in teacher programs using a sample of 24 Australian universities and a survey of 26 university representatives. Findings show a paucity of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Incidence, Foreign Countries
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Gemici, Sinan; Rojewski, Jay W.; Lee, In Heok – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
Evaluations of vocational education and training (VET) programs play a key role in informing training policy in Australia and elsewhere. Increasingly, such evaluations use observational data from surveys or administrative collections to assess the effectiveness of VET programs and interventions. The difficulty associated with using observational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Probability, Statistical Analysis
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Richards, Zoe; Kostadinov, Iordan; Jones, Michelle; Richard, Lucie; Cargo, Margaret – Health Education Research, 2014
Little research has assessed the fidelity, adaptation or integrity of activities implemented within community-based obesity prevention initiatives. To address this gap, a mixed-method process evaluation was undertaken in the context of the South Australian Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle (OPAL) initiative. An ecological coding procedure assessed…
Descriptors: Obesity, Fidelity, Prevention, Life Style
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Cusick, Anne; Camer, Danielle; Stamenkovic, Alexander; Zaccagnini, Melissa – Journal of Peer Learning, 2015
Research training should facilitate effective researcher role development. While researcher roles require the performance of specialised knowledge and skill, they also require development of personal research identities within social contexts. Interaction with research peers can provide opportunities for reflective role development. Ad-hoc…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Researchers, Trainees, Program Development
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Grace, Sandra; O'Neil, Ross – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2014
Despite calls for better preparation of students and supervisors for clinical placement, few dedicated pre-placement resources have been developed. The aim of this project was to design, pilot, and evaluate an online resource to prepare health students and supervisors for clinical placements. Development of an online resource was informed by the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Supervisors, College Students, Health
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Du Plessis, Karin; Green, Emma – International Journal of Training Research, 2013
A financial awareness education program was implemented with construction industry apprentices in Victoria, Australia. The program included face-to-face delivery of education around a range of financial management issues that apprentices face as they begin their apprenticeship. The paper reports on an evaluation of the program, which included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Construction Industry, Apprenticeships
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Williams, Brett; Fellows, Holly; Eastwood, Kathryn; Wallis, Jamie – Journal of Peer Learning, 2014
Peer assisted learning (PAL) is one method of teaching which involves peers, or people from similar social groups, in reciprocal learning where one peer educates another and in return learns through the teaching experience. There have been many reported benefits of PAL programs. PAL has a long history of use in healthcare education; however, for…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Peer Teaching, Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Students
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Armatas, Christine; Papadopoulos, Theo – International Journal of Training Research, 2013
Evaluation of a government-sponsored program for promoting work-integrated learning (WIL) in information communication technology (ICT) courses offered to vocational education students is discussed in this paper. The program provided the opportunity to incorporate WIL in the curriculum which had not previously been a feature of these ICT courses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Workplace Learning, Program Evaluation
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Paynter, Jessica M.; Riley, Emma P.; Beamish, Wendi; Scott, James G.; Heussler, Helen S. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
There is a relative paucity of evidence examining the effectiveness of early intervention for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, in particular those delivered through educationally-based programmes. This study aimed to evaluate the real world effectiveness of a community-based autism-specific early learning and intervention programme in…
Descriptors: Autism, Program Evaluation, Early Intervention, Clinical Diagnosis
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Crook, Simon J.; Sharma, Manjula D.; Wilson, Rachel – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Our study capitalized on a unique natural experiment rather than a researcher-designed, randomized experiment whereby, thanks to the Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution, half of grade 9 students in 2008 received laptops and half did not. Consequently in late 2011, when these students sat for their grade 12 external examinations…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Secondary School Science, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers
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Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S.; Assenheimer, Dwight; Choi-Lundberg, Derek; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
The massification of higher education (HE) has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of students in the classrooms, resulting in increased workload for teaching staff, sometimes leading to a great reliance on Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) examinations with limited feedback provided to students. The central role of feedback in student…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Improvement
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