Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2020)

• EDITORIAL

  Cristina Varsavsky

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• COMMITEE AND REVIEWERS

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• KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Keynote Presentations (Abstract)

• TALES FROM TASMANIA – SHORT- AND LONG-TERM RESPONSES TO COVID-19 IN THE CONTEXT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND SCHOLARSHIP

  Tina Acuña, Jo-Anne Kelder

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• THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: INTEGRATED ONLINE AND IN-PERSON LEARNING

  Elizabeth Johnson

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Abstracts

• THROWN IN THE DEEPER END: FIRST YEAR STUDENTS LEARNING ONLINE

  Louise Ainscough, Judit Kibedi, Kay Colthorpe

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• TACKLING THE SHORTAGE OF PHYSICS TEACHERS

  Elizabeth Angstmann

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• COMBINING MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATIONS TO SCAFFOLD STUDENT UNDERSTANDING OF DISPERSION FORCES

  Lauren Baade, Efpraxia Kartsonaki, Gwendolyn A. Lawrie

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• IMPACT OF COVID-19: STUDENTS’ EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH FACE-TO-FACE LABS TRANSITING TO ONLINE MODE

  Aesha Bhansali, Elizabeth Angstmann, Manjula D. Sharma

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• TOWARDS A SHARED NARRATIVE OF PLAYFULNESS IN ONLINE CLASSES

  William Billingsley

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• FACTORS INFLUENCING UNIT SELECTION OF SECOND-YEAR BIOMEDICINE UNITS

  Frances Broomhead, Scott Clarke, Elizabeth Davis

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• FROM LAB TO LAPTOP LEARNING: SUPPORTING THE RAPID TRANSITION TO ONLINE TEACHING IN TERTIARY SCIENCE

  Adrienne Burns, Paul G. McDonald, Neelam Naravan

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• A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE ENABLING A RAPID RESPONSE IN TRANSFORMING BIOCHEMISTRY LABORATORY TEACHING

  Joanne M. Castelli, Alyssa K. Van Dreumel, Sean Ramsey, Philip Burcham, Peter G. Arthur

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• ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND STUDENT SATISFACTION: MOVING ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING ONLINE

  Anna Chruscik, Louisa Windus, Jianxiong Wang, Kate Kauter, Eliza Whiteside

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• DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS

  Kay Colthorpe, Charlotte Young, Christian Panaretos, Judit Kibedi, Louise Ainscough

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• OUTCOMES FROM OUR VISITING TEACHING FELLOW PROGRAM IN THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS

  Michael de la Pena, Troy Garrett, Jessica Budden, Ingrid Mendes, Elizabeth J. Angstmann

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• “BIG BOOM + FIRE = IRON” – EXPERIENCES FROM SYSTEMS THINKING ORIENTED CHEMISTRY OUTREACH IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

  Seamus Delaney, Madeleine Schultz

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• WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON CASUAL TEACHING STAFF

  Prarthana Devi, Manjula D. Sharma, Stephen George-Williams

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• FROM THE LAB BENCH TO THE KITCHEN BENCH: SUPPORTING SCIENCE SKILLS TRAINING AT HOME

  Christine A. Devine, Joshua Wang, Dana Burfeind

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• LESSONS FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION FROM MUSEOLOGY

  Ellie Downing, Chiara O'Reilly, Alice Motion

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• TEACHING CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATES TO SHARE THEIR SCIENCE WITH THE PUBLIC

  Hung Phat Duong, Peter J. Rutledge, Alice Motion

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• DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF CONTEXT-BASED UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES (CUBHS) RESOURCES FOR FUTURE HEALTH WORKERS

  Katherine Fernandez, Tina Overton, Christopher Thompson, Nirma Samarawickrema

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• DEVELOPING LEARNING IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND LIFE SKILLS THROUGH CASE-BASED WORKSHOPS

  Katherine Fernandez, Melissa Sweeney, Nirma Samarawickrema

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• INCREASING ENGAGEMENT IN ONLINE LEARNING

  Linda A. Galligan, Alice Brown, Petrea Redmond, Suzanne Maloney, Joanna Turner, Jill Lawrence, Marita Basson

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• CHEMISTRY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: REFLECTIONS ON A VERY UNUSUAL SEMESTER

  Stephen George-Williams, Alice Motion, Reyne Pullen, Peter J. Rutledge, Siegbert Schmid, Shane Wilkinson

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• INITIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN USING VIRTUAL REALITY TO TEACH CHEMISTRY

  Stephen George-Williams, Reyne Pullen, Siegbert Schmid

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• REFLECTIONS ON RUNNING A FREE ONLINE CONFERENCE: ASERA CONFERENCE ONLINE 2020

  Helen Georgiou, Wendy S. Nielsen, David Geelan

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• YOUR SCIENCE IS IN THE MAIL

  Lisa Godinho, Mick Moylan, Daniel Pyke

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• LEARNING ABOUT THE COMPLEXITY OF SCIENCE THROUGH CITIZEN SCIENCE

  Yaela N. Golumbic, Kymberley Scroggie, Hung Phat Duong, Peter J. Rutledge, Alice Motion

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• USE OF CITIZEN SCIENCE TO ENGAGE UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE STUDENTS IN BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT

  Jaime Gongora, Katherine Brittain

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• WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?

  Tom Gordon, Helen Georgiou, Manjula Sharma

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• INSIGHTS FROM A CAREER DEVELOPMENT LEARNING INTERVENTION: THE IMPACT OF STUDENT MAJOR ON PERCEPTIONS OF EMPLOYABILITY

  Amany Gouda-Vossos, Angela Ziebell

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• MATHEMATICS SUPPORT – ESSENTIAL AT THE BEST OF TIMES, CRUCIAL AT THE WORST OF TIMES

  Deborah Jackson

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• VIRTUAL LABORATORY ON AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CUSTOMARY MEDICINES

  Joanne Jamie, Jack Micklewright, Kristina Rhee, Kaisarun Akter, Ian Jamie, Phil Duncan, Joe Perry

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• THE EFFECT OF INTERVENTIONS ON ANXIETY AND PERFORMANCE OF FIRST-YEAR TERTIARY PSYCHOLOGY STATISTICS STUDENTS - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

  Mitra Jazayeri, Xia Li, Natasha Beggs

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• 21ST CENTURY SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN REMOTE, ON-LINE LEARNING BIOCHEMISTRY STUDENTS

  Christopher Jones, Ming Wu, Liza Cubeddu, Jo-Anne Chuck

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• INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS, CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND SELF-EFFICACY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

  Smitha Jose, Raji Kochandra, Scott Daniel

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• USING TECHNOLOGIES THAT STUDENTS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH TO IMPROVE INTERACTIVITY IN ONLINE LEARNING

  Michael Kasumovic, Isabelle Kingsley

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• FROM LEMONS TO LEMONADE: STUDENTS’ RESILIENCE WHEN MANAGING CHALLENGE

  Judit Kibedi, Louise Ainscough, Kay Colthorpe

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• STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF ONLINE GROSS ANATOMY LABORATORY CLASSES VIA ZOOM TECHNOLOGY

  Rudi Klein, Gayathri Rajaraman, Phil Seymour, Chiara Tomassoni, Maxwell Winchester, Norman Eizenberg, Puspha Sinnayah

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• SCIENCE CONNECT: NON-PLACEMENT WIL

  Ingo Köper, Dylan Irvine, Don Houston

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• STUDENT EXPERIENCES IN LABORATORY PROGRAMS ACROSS THREE UNIVERSITIES: A SNAPSHOT DURING COVID-19 SEMESTER

  Srividya D. Kota, Jacinta den Besten, Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway, Manjula D. Sharma

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• MODELLING WAVES: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY WITH MODELLING AND INQUIRY IN AN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS EXPERIMENT

  Srividya D. Kota, Manjula D. Sharma

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• LEARNING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY REMOTELY: METHODS TO REDUCE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN EXPERTS AND STUDENTS

  Sebastian Leach, Yaela N. Golumbic, Alice Motion

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• DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE "QUESTION-SOLUTION-REFLECTION" FRAMEWORK

  Petr Maximovich Lebedev, Christine Lindstrøm, Manjula D. Sharma

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• WONDER QUESTIONS: ENGAGING, MOTIVATING AND ILLUMINATING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

  Christine Lindstrøm

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• DE-COLONISING SCIENCE THROUGH CO-TEACHING CONSILIENCE

  Leanda D. Mason, Rae-Lee Warner, Reva Remiah

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• EMBEDDING EMPLOYABILITY IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

  Bonnie McBain, Dawn Bennett, Liam Phelan

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• A BLENDED-LEARNING APPROACH IN UNDERGRADUATE SOIL SCIENCE INTERRUPTED BY COVID-19

  Brigid Ann McKenna, Peter Martin Kopittke

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• LOW-TECH VIRTUAL FIELD EXCURSIONS – IMPACT ON LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT

  Sandra McLaren

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• MAINTAINING CONNECTION DURING COVID-19 REMOTE DELIVERY OF TEACHING BY USING A LEARNING JOURNAL

  Sandra McLaren

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• SOCIAL MEDIA IN STEM: ACADEMIC AND STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TEACHING TOOL

  Mary McMillan, Julia Day

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• ONLINE EXAMS IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS AT UNE DURING COVID-19 ISOLATION

  Jock McOrist, Gerd Schmalz, Jelena A. Schmalz

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• A NEW ECOSYSTEM OF ONLINE SCIENCE: ONLINE EVENTS AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE

  Olivia F. McRae, Ellie Downing, Alice Motion, Chiara O'Reilly, Reyne Pullen

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• BUILDING INCLUSIVITY IN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION THROUGH MULTIPLE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

  Olivia F. McRae, Alice Motion, Reyne Pullen

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• STUDENT PERCEPTION OF PREPAREDNESS IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19: A SNAPSHOT FROM FIRST YEAR CHEMISTRY STUDENTS

  Agnes J. Mercer, Sara H. Kyne, Christopher Thompson

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• STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN FIRST YEAR CHEMISTRY – ONLINE VS FACE TO FACE

  Anna Miltiadous, Damien Lee Callahan, Madeleine Schultz

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• UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY THROUGH LEARNER EXPECTATIONS OF AN UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS LABORATORY PROGRAM

  Gabriel Ha Nguyen, Manjula Sharma

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• STAYING CONNECTED IN A DISCONNECTED WORLD: SUPPORTING STUDENTS IN TRANSITION DURING COVID-19

  Hong Dao Nguyen, Timothy Lee

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• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES TO UNDERSTANDING FEEDBACK

  Bradley S. Parfrement, Judit Kibedi, Kay Colthorpe, Louise Ainscough

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• PUTTING THE PASS IN CLASS: IN-CLASS PEER MENTORING ON CAMPUS AND ONLINE

  Liam Phelan, Sophie Daphne Baker, Georgie Cooper, Tess Matilda Horton, Samantha Alice Whitling, Karen Cutts, Bonnie McBain, Heather Stevens, Cassandra Bugir, Lachlan Howell, Ken Latham, Ryan Witt, Paul Hodge

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• DEMONSTRATING ADAPTABILITY: ROLE MODELLING MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING IN THE LAB, ONLINE AND AT HOME

  Liam Phelan, Alescia Cullen, Rafiquel Islam, Timothy Kirkman, Bonnie McBain, Joseph Leigh Pegler, Caitlin Romanis, Thi Kim Tran, Trieu Nguyen Trinh

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• EMBEDDING CREATIVE EXERCISES TO PROMOTE LEARNING-CENTRED EXPERIENCES IN CHEMISTRY TUTORIALS

  Reyne Pullen, Stephen George-Williams, Peter Rutledge

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• IMPACTFUL LESSONS THROUGH EMBEDDING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INTO SCIENCE CURRICULA

  Matthew Pye, Katherine Brittain, Panagiotis Couros, Francesca van den Berg, Jaime Gongora

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• PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!?! THE PARADOX OF DELIVERING AUTHENTIC, HANDS-ON BIOLOGY PRACTICAL CLASSES IN A HANDS-OFF, REMOTE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

  Matthew Pye, Cameron Negus, Francesca Trudy van den Berg

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• WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO? STUDENT ENGAGEMENT DURING A FACELESS PANDEMIC

  Matthew Pye, Francesca Trudy van den Berg, Timothy R.C. Lee, Hong Dao Nguyen, Osu Lilje, Samantha Hockey

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• TRANSNATIONAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT – A CASE STUDY FROM AGRICULTURE

  Rosanne Quinnell, Try Yorn, Daniel Tan, Rebecca Cross, Daniel Howell

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• GROUNDING INDIGENOUS SCIENCE IN A FOUNDATIONAL UNIT: A PANDEMIC EXPERIENCE

  Reva Ramiah, Brenda Rohl, Tracey Kickett, Alison Blyth, Vanessa Corunna, Anthony Kickett, Fred Yasso

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• EVALUATING LEARNING DESIGN OF FIRST-YEAR CHEMISTRY THROUGH LEARNING ANALYTICS

  Charisse Tongson Reyes, Gwendolyn Lawrie, Christopher Thompson, Sara H. Kyne

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• TEACHER EXPERIENCES: INTEGRATION OF INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND STEM

  Brenda Rohl, Anibeth Desierto, Leanda Mason, Emma Pearson, Fred Yasso, Vanessa Corunna

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• PREPARING STUDENTS FOR UNCERTAINTY IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: CURRICULUM APPROACHES TO APPLYING DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS IN A FACULTY OF SCIENCE

  Pauline Ross, Lucy Mercer-Mapstone

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• SHARING SCIENCE THROUGH FREE AND OPEN ELECTRONIC LABORATORY NOTEBOOKS – A GITHUB CASESTUDY

  Kymberley Rachel Scroggie, Alice Motion

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• LEARNING IN A BLENDED COURSE: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS’ LEARNING ADAPTATIONS

  Chloe Smallwood, Louise Ainscough, Kay Colthorpe

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• ONLINE ASSESSMENT DESIGN TO IMPROVE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND REDUCE ACADEMIC WORKLOAD IN FIRST YEAR CHEMISTRY

  Erica J. Smith

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• CHEMISTRY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF THE SHIFT TO ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  Dino Spagnoli, Siobhan Wills, Shannan J. Maisey, Alexandra Yeung

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• SCIENCE EDUCATION ONLINE AND VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS

  Geoff I. Swan

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• LEVERAGING LEARNING ASSISTANTS TO SUPPORT THE RAPID TRANSITION TO TEACHING ONLINE

  Robert M. Talbot, Hannah Huvard

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• LEARNING HORTICULTURE WITH TAKE HOME MUSHROOM KITS DURING THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN

  Daniel K. Y. Tan, Anowarul Bokshi, Brian Jones

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• WRITING YOUR EXAM BEFORE SEMESTER STARTS: AN IMPORTANT PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TACKLING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

  Christopher David Thompson

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• COORDINATING A FACULTY RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IMPACTS: THE 6 C’S OF EDUCATION AND A COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP APPROACH

  Hollie Susan Tose, Andrew Kepert, Teegan Robertson, Erin Micali, Bronwyn Bloxham, Nicole Stead, Judy-Anne Osborn, Clovia Holdsworth, Stuart Marlin, Christopher Scarlett, Michael Bowyer

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• SUPPORT FOR PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH SCAFFOLDING

  Kimberly Vo, Mahbub Sarkar, Paul White, Elizabeth Yuriev

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• BACK TO BASICS: PROBING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMICAL ANATOMY

  Samuel Marr Wait, James Thomas, Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul, Christine Lindstrøm

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• BUILDING A LABORATORY SKILLS VIDEO REPOSITORY FOR MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES

  Jack Tsang-Hsing Wang, Lauren E. Gilmour

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• USING LIVE STUDENT PEER ASSESSMENT WITH AUTOMATED INSTANT FEEDBACK

  Shane Michael Wilkinson, Markus Müellner-Bačvić, Danny Liu

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• STUDENT ENGAGEMENT THROUGH DATA MAPPING IN AN UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

  Shane Michael Wilkinson, Elizabeth J. New, Gregory G. Warr, Adam J. Bridgeman

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• STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF PEN AND PAPER VS. DIGITAL ASSESSMENT.

  Siobhán S. Wills, Mathew Hillier

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• STUDENT EVALUATION OF COURSES: PERCEPTIONS, ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION

  Siobhán S. Wills, Shannan J. Maisey

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• USING ELECTRONIC NOTEBOOKS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN FIRST YEAR CHEMISTRY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  Alexandra Yeung, Daniel Southam

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• CHALLENGES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING ONLINE: LESSONS LEARNED, REFLECTIONS, AND STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES

  Elizabeth Yuriev

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• CAREER DEVELOPMENT LEARNING – DOES GENDER IMPACT RESULTS?

  Angela Ziebell, Amany Gouda-Vossos

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Refereed Papers

• AEQ-PHYSICS: A VALID AND RELIABLE TOOL TO MEASURE EMOTIONS IN PHYSICS

  Aesha Bhansali, Elizabeth Angstmann, Manjula D. Sharma

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• WHY DO STUDENTS ACCESS BIOSCIENCE LECTURE RECORDINGS? IS ACCESSING RECORDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC OUTCOMES?

  Sheila A. Doggrell

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• PERCEPTION OF WORK ENVIRONMENT AND TEACHING PREPAREDNESS AMONGST MATHEMATICS TUTORS

  Ava Greenwood, Michael Jennings

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• POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS’ LEARNING OF DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS THROUGH STORY-BASED TASKS

  Collette Lemieux, Olive Chapman

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• EFFECT OF MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION FORMAT ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE

  Umairia Malik

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• BELIEFS OF LEARNERS AND TEACHERS IN CONTEXTS OF POVERTY REGARDING CURRICULUM-ALIGNED SCIENCE ELECTRONIC QUIZ ENGAGEMENT

  Angela E. Stott

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Workshops (Discipline Day)

• ACDS FELLOWSHIP: ASSURING STEM EDUCATION: DATA, CURRICULUM QUALITY ASSURANCE AND SCHOLARSHIP

  Tina Acuña, Jo-Anne Kelder

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• INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP – HOW TO EASILY RECREATE THE HANDS-ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT IN STEM FIELDS

  Michael Kasumovic

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• CHEMISTRY EDUCATION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE DISCIPLINE DAY WORKSHOP

  Gwendolyn A. Lawrie

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• LEARNING FROM THE PANDEMIC: APPROVALS AND PROTOCOLS FOR RESEARCH OUTPUT

  Christine Lindstrøm, Helen Georgiou, Elizabeth Angstmann

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• TEACHING SCIENCE COMMUNICATION TO SCIENCE STUDENTS

  Alice Motion

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• AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AND EQUIP THEM WITH MODERN SKILLS

  Adam Piggott

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• COLLECTING EVIDENCE OF GOOD PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN A TUMULTUOUS TIME

  Reyne Pullen, Gwendolyn Lawrie, Madeleine Schultz, Erica Smith, Alexandra Yeung, Elizabeth Yuriev

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• EXPERIENCES FROM TEACHING LIVE ONLINE CHEMISTRY SUPERLAB CLASSES

  Magdalena Wajrak

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