Proceedings of The 30th Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2024)

• Editorial

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• Sponsors

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• Committee Members and Reviewers

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• Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Presentations (Abstract)

• Navigating the Future of Science Education: The Role of Program Design in Student Success

  Shannan Maisey

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Abstracts

• What and how should I teach? A study on Physics lecturers’ approaches to course design

  Yessi Affriyenni, Helen Georgiou, Christine Lindstrom, Adam Micolich

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• Examining the exam New metrics for improving the performance of multiple-choice questions

  Rashika Agarwal, Diana Warren

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• WORK-INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT: SCAFFOLDING EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS FOR MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SCIENCE COHORTS

  Agneetha Amarnath, Dipta Effendi

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• Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory Curricula in Australian Universities: Investigating the Major Topics and Approaches to Learning

  Will Atkinson, Chris Hyland, Stephen George-Williams, Reyne Pullen

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• Representational competency, visuospatial ability, and metal imagery: an exploratory study

  Lauren Baade, Gwen Lawrie, Effie Kartsonaki, Hassan Khosravi

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• THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I’M SHOCKED. SHOCKED! SCHRÖDINGER’s HYPOTHETICAL DEMANDS HIS CAT USES AI

  Christopher Barnett, Thomas Maschmeyer, Anthony Masters, Alexander Yuen

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• Improving assessment with transparency in learning and teaching

  Katrina Blazek

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• The Development of Tutor Self-Efficacy in Working with Diverse Learners.

  Maia Bradley, Judit Kibedi, Danielle Burgess

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• USING LMS AND ASSESSMENT DATA TO IDENTIFY UNDER-ENGAGED STUDENTS AND PREDICT PERFORMANCE

  James Brown

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• Totem Talk

  Karen Burke da Silva, kieren Beaumont

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• Building a novel online connected curriculum for Environmental Science.

  Adrienne Burns, Manu Saunders

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• Are science graduates ‘climate-ready’? Assessing undergraduate climate change education through student perceptions of empowerment, understanding and climate action.

  Justin Carino, Thomas Hiscox, Lucy Richardson

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• Investigating the Study Habits that Lead to Success in First Year Chemistry

  Alysha Caruso, Patricia Jackson, Sonia Horvat, Mick Moylan

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• USING SRES AND OTHER STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE BELONGING AND CONNECTION

  Joanne Castelli, Ifeoluwa MacKenzie, Stephanie Vialle, Thomas Woodward, Alexandra Yeung, Chen Zheng

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• ASSESSMENT THAT NURTURES CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

  Joanne Castelli, Christina Powell

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• NLP and GenAI Analysis: Automating Thematic Analysis and Coding of Qualitative Educational Research Data

  James Cleaver, Laura McKemmish, Sara H Kyne

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• EMBEDDING INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES IN SCIENCE CURRICULA IN HIGHER EDUCATION

  Karla Coutts, Joe Sambono, Angela Ziebell

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• ENHANCED DATA PATHWAYS FOR AI-DRIVEN LEARNING ANALYTICS AND PERSONALISED STUDENT FEEDBACK

  Dr. Andrew D. Cutting, Dr. Sarah Frankland, Dr. Eduardo A. Oliveira

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• ENHANCING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND SUCCESS THROUGH ONLINE INTERACTIVE MICRO-LECTURES

  Kevin Danastas

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• Comparing Virtual Reality to PC Simulations in Physics Education

  John Debs, Ankur Singh

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• Following up on Scaffolded Physics Laboratory Skills: What Worked, What Didn’t, What’s Next?

  Thomas Findlay Dixon, Kate Jackson

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• “FLEX LABS” IN FIRST-YEAR PHYSICS PROMOTES INCLUSIVITY AND EQUITY

  Thomas Findlay Dixon, Kate Jackson

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• CONCEPTUAL COMPLEXITY AND ITS QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT WITHIN A PHYSICS SERVICE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT

  Adrian Dusting, John Rayner, Jim Woolnough

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• DIVERSITY OF EXPERIENCES: CASE STUDIES OF NEURODIVERSE STUDENTS IN A FIRST YEAR PHYSICS SEQUENCE

  Thanura Ediri, Anna Phillips

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• Sources of Stress and Effective Coping Strategies employed by First Year Exercise Students.

  E.S.Louise Faber

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• A modern Systematic Review of the use of prelaboratory tasks in Science Education

  Yuqing Fang, Stephen George-Williams, Shane Wilkinson

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• ALIGNING STUDENTS’ SELF-REPORTED LEARNING APPROACHES WITH OBSERVED ENGAGEMENT ONLINE

  Dinara Fonseka, Nathan Habila , Ari Pinar

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• Integrating reflection and annotation into a writing task for science students

  Jennifer Fox

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• Preferred delivery For lectures What do Students choose And why?

  Jinghan Fu, Kevin Fu, Diana Warren

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• FLIPPING AFTER A PANDEMIC: A CASE STUDY OVER TWO YEARS

  Stephen Robert Daniel George-Williams, Susan Hemsley, Francesca van den Berg, Timothy Lee

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• INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; BEING AND BELONGING IN LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

  Mitchell Gibbs Gibbs, James Gibbs, Pauline Mary Ross

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• INVESTIGATING HOW BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS MANAGE THE EMOTIONAL EFFECT OF FEEDBACK IN AUTONOMOUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

  Jamil Glover, Judit Kibedi, Louise Ainscough

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• DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS INFLUENCING PERCEPTIONS OF BELONGING IN HIGHER EDUCATION STEM STUDENTS

  Lisa Godinho, Lindsie Arthur-Hulme, Iain Walker, Rebekah Anderson

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• First-years outdoors with a little help from a Field Friend

  Lisa Godinho, Rebecca Hull, Eirene Carajias, Gordon Yau, Abrar Hayat, Tim Blundell, David Withers, Alexis Pang

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• A Guidebook for Scholarly Career Progression

  M.Sarah-Jane Gregory, Sarah Cresswell

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• Towards bridging the gap between pre-medicine student artificial intelligence technologies capabilities and their future medical practices.

  M.Sarah-Jane Gregory, Siska Dupont Berry, Alfred Dai, W.Darcy Barlow, Ethan Cao-Lee, Anna Balzer, Romeo Batacan, Suzzane Burgess, Roslyn Clapperton, Andrew Fenning, Maddie Higgins, Emma Hodge, Charmaine Ramlogan-Steel, Alannah van Waveren

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• CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE: EDUCATING FOR A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD

  Tiffany Gunning

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• BREAKING BARRIERS: THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL BELONGING AND GROUP IDENTITY ON ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN THE AUSTRALIAN STEM UNIVERSITY SECTOR

  Thomas Joseph Hiscox, Anna McLean Phillips, Kathryn Hodgins

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• Cultivating Research Skills in the Age of AI: Integrating Generative AI for Enhanced Learning and Assessment

  Chantal Hoppe, Dr Sonja McKeown, Dr Reyhan Akhtar , Dr Julia Young

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• Enhancing Student Engagement in Laboratories: Implementing Pass/Fail Lab Skill Competencies

  Chantal Hoppe, Dr Julia Young, Dr Reyhan Akhtar , Professor Julia Choate, Dr Kim Catania, Dr Sonja McKeown

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• ENHANCING ENGAGEMENT IN ACADEMIC INTEGRITY PROCESSES: ADDRESSING BARRIERS FOR STAFF AND STUDENTS

  Narelle Hunter

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• SUPERVISED STUDY: THE POWER OF PEERS IN SUPPORTING STUDENT TRANSITION

  Narelle Hunter

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• CONNECTING STUDENT ATTITUDES AND SUSTAINABILITY COMPETENCIES IN PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

  Stefan G. Huth, Susan J. van de Meene, Aisling M. McEvoy, Richard A. Hughes, Lauren T. May

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• How generative AI can enhance personalised feedback at scale

  Minh Huynh, Fran Van Den Berg, Liana Pozza, Floris Van Ogtrop

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• GENERATING WEEKLY ENGAGEMENT PROFILES USING LMS-DATA TO PREDICT AT-RISK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

  Dania Ibrahim, Ari Pinar, Nathan Habila

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• A MEASURE OF MOTIVATION IN AN ONLINE ASTRONOMY COURSE

  Kate Jackson, Thomas Dixon

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• Enhancing online engagement: workshop redevelopment for students, by students.

  Olivia Jessop, Sarah Hampson, Liam Timms, Ava Greenwood

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• GENERATIVE AI IN EDUCATION: KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF CHEMISTRY STUDENTS

  Corben Johnson, Alexandra Yeung

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• Using a Game-Based Learning Approach to Help Students Understand the Importance of Ethics in Science

  Michael Kasumovic, Tim Dean, Pietro Pollo

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• Using Modern Technologies to Improve the Accessibility of the First-year Chemistry Laboratory

  Anthony Katselas, Cary Supalo, Jasodhara Bhattacharya, Prarthana Devi, Shane Wilkinson, Peter Rutledge, Alice Motion, Siegbert Schmid

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• Changing earth science students’ perceptions of mathematics and programming through context-based education

  Adam Kessler, Anja Slim

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• (WIL-)STRETCHING FOR RELEVANCE: CONNECTING THE RELEVANCE OF LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

  Judit Kibedi

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• Embedded Career-building curriculum – lessons learned

  Ingo Koeper, Jeanne Young Kirby, Narelle Hunter, Liu-Fei Tan

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• The Influence of A 6-Day Fieldtrip on Students’ Perception of Sustainable Agriculture

  Suresh Krishnasamy, John Gaughan, Shane Campbell, Angela Lees, Trish O'Hara, Melody Thomson

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• HAVE OUR FIRST YEAR SCIENCE STUDENTS CHANGED SINCE THE PANDEMIC?

  Tracey Kuit

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• Assessment for learning examination guidelines: Final results from an ACDS Teaching and Learning Project 2022

  Sara H. Kyne, Grace E. O. Constable, Reyne Pullen

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• A Trellis of Practices to Support Sustainable Assessment Redesign

  Prue Laidlaw

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• EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF PEER MENTORING ON STUDENT MENTORS’ SELF-IDENTITY AND SENSE OF BELONGING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

  Prearena Lalwani, Effie Kartsonaki

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• Student Perceptions of Inclusive Practice in a Large, Blended Learning Chemistry Course

  Gwendolyn Angela Lawrie

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• Bridging first year barriers: fostering belonging in the biology learning space

  Osu Lilje, Minh Huynh, Ella Collins-White, Shahnoosh Hayamanesh

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• NAVIGATING THE SECOND YEAR TRANSITION: EXPLORING THE MINDSETS OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS

  Angus Linklater-Steele, Kay Colthorpe, Louise Ainscough

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• POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE: A LEARNING SEQUENCE AND LOGARITHMIC BOOK FOR TEACHING EXTREME NUMBERS

  Anastasia Lonshakova, David Blair

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• ENABLING STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGH REFLECTION AND STUDY PLAN CREATION

  Christopher Anthony Love

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• THE MATHEMATICS ACADEMIC PLANNER: RAISING AWARENESS OF ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE, PROMOTING HELP-SEEKING, AND SUPPORTING DEGREE PLANNING

  Ken Ly, Joshua Aarts, Katherine Olston, Dashiell Moore, Joshua Swift

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• A PROGRAMMATIC APPROACH TO INDIGENISATION OF THE CURRICULUM

  Karen Elizabeth Mate, Lizzie Manning, Saije Endacott, Sharleen Slater, Guy Cameron

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• Redefining Assessment: Implementing Large-Scale Viva Voce Exams in Anatomy Courses

  Dr Jack Mayhew, Professor John Bertram, Dr Reyhan Akhtar , Dr Kim Catania, Dr Frances Broomhead, Professor Michelle Lazarus, Chantal Hoppe

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• CHEM CLASS IN A GLASS: Informal science education meets sociocultural engagement

  Lauren McKnight, James Cleaver, Laura McKemmish, Sara H Kyne

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• EMPOWERING PROFESSIONAL STAFF IN THE THIRD SPACE: A CASE STUDY ON THE NEXUS PROGRAM AT UNSW

  Camile Moray, Neil Lawrence

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• EXPLORING THE NEXUS BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SCIENCE BELONGINGNESS AND EMPLOYABILITY: A PILOT Belongingness

  Dilusha Munasinghe, Angela Ziebell

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• Investigating Natural Language Models for Facilitating Peer Learning in Chemistry

  Pierre Naeyaert, Reyne Pullen

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• The multi-million-dollar inventory: the FCI uses and applications The FCI uses and applications

  Wade Naylor

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• TRANSFORMING SCIENTIFIC WRITING SUCCESS FOR FIRST-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENTS

  Hong Dao Nguyen, Timothy Lee, Caitlyn Forster, Matthew Pye, Francesca van den Berg

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• EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON SESSIONAL ACADEMICS IN UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE EDUCATION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

  Tsz Wai Rosita Pang, Madeleine Schultz, Jillian Healy, Tricia Wevill, Reyne Pullen, Stephen George Williams, Prarthana Devi

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• CHANGING THE NARRATIVE REDESIGNING A BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE UNIT

  Alan Payne

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• “THE VIBE IS BETTER:” AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LGBTQ+ STUDENTS’ SENSE OF BELONGING IN FIRST YEAR PHYSICS

  Anna Phillips, Thanura Ediri, Timothy Atherton

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• Time Matters: The Relationship Between Lecture Duration, Student Engagement, and Academic Performance

  Ari Pinar, Aidan Tang

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• Building Diversity, Belonging and Inclusion in STEM Higher Education

  Reva Ramiah

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• DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS

  Emma Richards, Kay Colthorpe, Louise Ainscough, Lisa Akison

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• CHALLENGING BELONGINGS FOR TEACHING AND EDUCATION FOCUSED ACADEMICS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA

  Pauline Mary Ross

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• USING SELF AND PEER ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE THE GROUPWORK EXPERIENCE Subtheme: Assessment

  Masha Smallhorn, Narelle Hunter

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• FLIPPED CLASSROOM INCREASES STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, SATISFACTION AND SUCCESS Subtheme: Mode of Learning

  Masha Smallhorn

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• MATLAB Grader Enhanced Assessent and Feedback

  Linda Stals, Adam Piggott

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• How to keep your ducks in a row – making international students part of the family

  Liu-Fei Tan, Jeanne Young-Kirby, Ingo Koeper

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• INTERACTIONS WITH AI: CAN STUDENTS CRITIQUE AND MODIFY AI-GENERATED OUTPUT?

  Francesca van den Berg, Matthew Pye

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• Embedding Social Responsibility in Undergraduate STEM Curricula

  David Van Reyk, Dr Keith Heggart, Prof Willa Huston

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• AN ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE TO FOSTER SUCCESS IN TERTIARY MATHEMATICS

  Griffith Ware, Adam Piggott, Linda Stals

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• The Maths Advice Bot Towards Personalised, Transitioning of Students into First Year Science

  Diana Warren, Jacky Bell, Ken Ly

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• THE REALITIES OF VIRTUAL REALITY FOR LEARNING SCIENCE

  Margaret Wegener, Stefan Zeppetzauer, Timothy McIntyre, David Madden, John Debs, Tyler Neely, Sally Shrapnel, Jacinda Ginges, Jacquiline Romero

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• CHOOSE YOUR OWN MEDIUM Belonging

  Michael Widjaja, Osu

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• “Labtorials” – Laboratory-focused tutorials

  Shane Michael Wilkinson

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• Biology Students' Experience of Practical Work

  Alexandra Williams, Lauren Crean, Susan Howitt

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• ATTITUDES TO PROGRAMMING IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE COURSE

  Amy Zhao, Sara Davies, Ava Greenwood, Timothy J. McIntyre

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Refereed Papers

• USING PREFLECTION PROMPTS IN THE TRANSITION TO TERTIARY MATHEMATICS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

  Laura Tubino, Kerri Morgan

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Workshops (Discipline Day)

• ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING THE HIGH FAIL RATES ACROSS THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE.

  Bianca Aiello, Leah Betts, Thomas Elton, Stephen Robert Daniel George-Williams, Martin Huang, Helen Johnston, Osu Lilje, Caleb Owens, Sharon Stephen, Sarah Sulaqa, Diana Warren

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• Shifting Mindsets: Moving Towards a Competency-Based Grading Approach

  Elizabeth Angstmann, Chris Campbell, Chien Gooi

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• WORKSHOP FOR EMBEDDING INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES IN SCIENCE CURRICULA

  Karla Coutts, Joe Sambono, Angela Ziebell

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• Modern, Higher-Year Physics Labs

  John Debs, Elizabeth Angstmann, Anna Phillips

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• RACI Chemistry Education Division Workshop (Discipline Day)

  Sara Kyne, Reyne Pullen, Dino Spagnoli, Jody Moller, Alexandra Yeung, Erica Smith

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• Student belonging as an important step in tackling The Mathematics Problem.

  Adam Piggott

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• Biology Discipline Day Workshop Overcoming the binary: Sexual diversity and gender in biology curricula AND Experential Learning

  Michelle Power, Lisa Godinho, Pauline Ross

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• CLIMATE ACTION IN SCIENCE CURRICULA

  Rosanne Quinnell

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• Cultivating Leadership in Education

  Brian F Yates

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