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Proceedings of the Motivating Science Undergraduates: Ideas and Intervention (2009)
Proceedings of the Motivating Science Undergraduates: Ideas and Intervention (2009)
Published:
2012-09-07
Keynote Presentations (Abstract)
Designing learning environments that engage science undergraduates: Principles from motivational theory and research
Richard Walker
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Raising the profile of teaching and learning: Scientists leading scientists
Karen Burke da Silva
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Abstracts
ALIUS: Active Learning in University Science: Leading Change in Australian Science Teaching
Danny R. Bedgood, Jr, Adam Bridgeman, Kieran Lim, Gayle Morris, Brian Yates, Michael Gardiner, Simon Pyke, Mark Buntine, Mauro Mocerino, Mario Zadnik
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An integrated approach to scientific writing in first year biology
Tania Blanksby, Fiona Bird, Brian Malone, Robyn Yucel, Tony Gendall, Adele Harvey Harvey, Kim Plummer, Kristine Valenta
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Laboratory practical experience: an innovative and distinctive approach to student learning
Giovanna Di Trapani, Sarah-Jane Gregory, Frank Clarke
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Development of a Physics Goal Orientation survey
Christine Lindstrom, Manjula Sharma
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Do interventions using threshold concepts assist learning in Biology?
Louise H. Lutze-Mann, Anne M. Galea
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A virtual way to teach introductory physics
Dominic McGrath, Margaret Wegener, Timothy McIntyre, Craig Savage, Michael Williamson
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Are our students engaged with their learning?
Janet Macaulay, Elizabeth Davis
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Transitions and overcoming barriers through the development of writing skills in science and technology postgraduate research candidature: an investigation of pedagogical approaches
Pauline Ross, Shelly Burgin, Claire Aitchison, Janice Catterall
Using student lens to reflect on teaching and learning resources
Navneet Dhand
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Complying with The Code: optimising student learning in animal-based practicals.
Ashley Edwards
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A qualitative study on teacher perspectives: Special Relativity in high school physics
Eric Gibbings, Manjula Sharma, Ian Sefton
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Motivating & Developing Research Skills in Undergraduate Students - Selecting, Evaluating and Using Print and On-Line Resources for Optoelectronic Technology Profiles
Deb Kane
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Getting it right: further investigations on the impact of an online writing tool used by first year biology students
Osu Lilje, Mary Peat
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New Ideas for Motivating and Engaging Science Undergraduates in a Context-Based Learning Environment: Enhancing the Transition From University Classroom to Professional Practice.
Mark O'Brien, Christine Know
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From M&M's to developing innovative foods: A scaffolded approach to developing research skills in Food Science classes.
Karma Pearce
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Revision more of the same, or is there greater merit in a different approach?
George Pinniger, Manjula Sharma, Ian Johnston, Philip Dooley
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Motivating Science Undergraduates using pre-lecture preparation
Judith Pollard
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Teaching Physics Concepts by Using Forensic Real Life Activities
Singha Prasitpong, Ratchapak Chitaree
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The Power of Demographic and High School Experience Factors on Geoscience Success
Suttida Rakkapao, Julie Libarkin
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Postgraduate students as research mentors for secondary school students in science: experiences from UNSW
Chong Eng Tay, Michelle Kofod, Rosanne Quinnell, Bianca Lino, Noel Whitaker, Iona Reid, Julian Cox
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Refereed Papers
Student perceptions of graduate attributes in the Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience
Melanie Collier, Sarah Jobbins, Rosanne Taylor
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Peer marking of talks in a small, second year biosciences course
Michelle Coulson
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Maintaining connections: An investigation of the factors that influence student participation in health science classes
James Dollman, Sharron King, Elizabeth Hemphill
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Learning and teaching in summer: is it better and why?
David Easdown, Anna Ougrinovskaia, Neil Saunders, Di Warren, Tiho Ancev, Thomas Bishop, Sarah Mansfield
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To Podcast or not to Podcast? Pedagogical decision making in the use of new technologies
Elizabeth Elliot, Sharron King, Sheila Scutter
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Educating the next generation of bioscientists: the challenge for higher education in Australia
Kristine Elliott, Anna Boin, Helen Irving, Elizabeth Johnson, Victor Galea
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Creation of a collegial network between researchers and undergraduate students at The University of Queensland.
Kirsten Farrand, Paula Myatt
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University students’ conceptions about familiar thermodynamic processes and the implications for instruction
Helen Georgiou, Manjula Sharma, John O’Byrne, Ian Sefton, Brian McInnes
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Using examples to promote statistical literacy
Sue Gordon, Jackie Nicholas
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Using multiple representations to enhance understanding of molecular structure: a blended learning activity
Gwen Lawrie, Trevor Appleton, Tony Wright, Joanne Stewart
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Identifying common thresholds in learning for students working in the 'hard' discipline of Science
Rebecca LeBard, Rachel Thompson, Adam Micolich, Rosanne Quinnell
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Student perceptions of lecture approaches in first-year Engineering Physics
David J. Low
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Student perceptions of the undergraduate research experience: what do they think they really gain and how much influence does it have?
Paula Myatt
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First-year Human Biology students in the ivory tower
Eleanor Peirce, Mario Ricci, Irene Lee, John Willison
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Science without Borders: students’ perceptions of international exchange
Rosanne Quinnell, Chong Eng Tay, Michelle Kofod, Noel Whitaker, Julian Cox
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Motivate students by having them publish in new media: An invitation to science lecturers to share and test
Will Rifkin, Nancy Longnecker, Joan Leach, Lloyd Davis, Lindy Orthia
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Year 13 or first-year university - a holistic learning design that attempts to combine elements of secondary and tertiary learning and teaching
Leanne Rylands, Carmel Coady
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Motivation, learning and group work – the effect of friendship on collaboration
Erica Sainsbury, Richard Walker
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Introducing a group research project into a second-level mathematics course
Susan Worsley, Anthony Bracken, Katrina Hibberd, Phillip Isaac
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Increasing students’ interest and motivation through effective design of online learning environments
Alexandra Yeung, Siegbert Schmid, Adrian George, Michael King
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Embedding in-discipline language support for first year students in the sciences: outcomes and future directions
Felicia Zhang, Brett Lidbury, Jurgen Schulte, Adam Bridgeman, John Rodgers, Brian Yates
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The research-teaching nexus as a driver for science communication skills enhancement
Catriona Bonfiglioli, Les Kirkup, Ian Woolf
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Mastery learning in a large first year physics class
Paul Francis, Cristina Figl, Craig Savage
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Adding value to physics labs to help build confident, knowledgeable teachers
Lorna Jarrett, Brian Ferry, George Takacs
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Embedding research principles into multimedia teaching and learning tools
Nigel Kuan, Manjula Sharma, Christine Lindstrøm, Derek Muller
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The CASPiE Experience: Undergraduate Research in the 1st Year Chemistry Laboratory
Gwen Lawrie, Denise Adams, Joanne Blanchfield, Lawrence Gahan, Gabriela Weaver
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Classroom practices: engaging the first year university student in “the novel” practical experience
Ieva Stupans, Trenna Albrecht, Jane Coffee, Elizabeth E. Elliot, Eileen Giles, Sharron King, Karma Pearce, Tim Sawyer, Sheila Scutter, Helena Ward
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Ideas Exchange
Jumping on the wiki bandwagon with ‘Google docs’
Helen Georgiou
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Cementing Core Concepts with Crafty Constructions
Sarah-Jane Gregory, Frank Clarke
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Motivated and Engaged Students via Co-operative Problem- Based Learning
Sarah-Jane Gregory, Frank Clarke, Martin Bridgestock
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Teaching science "as it is practised" and the pedagogy of uncertainty
Philip Poronnik, Phillip D. Long
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Moving UniServe Science website to Web2.0 and beyond
Hazel Jones, Alexandra Hugman
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Preparing Demonstrators for First Year Science Laboratories
Mauro Mocerino, Shelley Yeo, Marjan Zadnik
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Sydney Network of University Science Educators (SNUSE): I must have dozed off!
Noel Whitaker, Michelle Kofod, Rosanne Quinnell, Iona Reid, Julian Cox
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Potential and Problems of Explicit Research Skill Development in Undergraduate Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Geology
Eleanor Peirce, Mario Ricci, Irene Lee, John Willison
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How to use “Survey Methods” as a useful survey tool
Aida Yalcin
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