| First Year in Higher Education 2000 Conference 'Creating Futures for a Nem Millenium ' |
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Below is a list of papers from the 2000 FYHE Conference - Creating Future for a New Millenium held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Papers are grouped and listed in themes as listed below. Within each theme, each of the links take you to the abstract for the paper as an HTML document. From the HTML page you will be able to access the full paper as a Microsoft Word document - but only if you come to the Conference.
Papers have also been grouped and presented in six parallel sessions. You can view the abstracts and full papers in this way by clicking here.
Only papers submitted electronically and with the consent of authours are listed on this site.
All papers are copyright to the authour and to the conference organisers. If using these papers you must reference your source appropriately eg:
AUTHOR, (DATE) TITLE. The Fourth Pacific Rim - First Year in Higher Education Conference: Creating Futures for a New Millennium. Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane, 5-7 July 2000.
| Theme A - Student Populations and Diversity | |
| Krause & Duchesne | With a little help from my friends: Social interactions on Campus and their role in the First Year Experience |
| Lawrence | Rethinking diversity: re-theorising transition as a process of engaging, negotiating and mastering the discourses and multiliteracies of an unfamililar culture rather than as a problem of deficit |
| Morrison | Space for Maori in Tertiary Institutions |
| Pennington | The Typical American Introductory Psychology textbook and its Coverage of Cultural Diversity |
| Riley & Najar | Facilitating Research Writing in the New Millennium |
| Theme B - Support Systems and Programs | |
| Adonis | An evaluation of student's perceptions of a multi-faceted support programme in a large, diverse first year class |
| Barker | First year students' perceptions of writing difficulties in science. "I didn't expect it to be different to school" |
| Clulow | Student involvement and transition: a role for peer tutoring? |
| Drew et al | School of Psychology Peer Mentoring Pilot Program |
| Grob | Surviving First Year in Higher Education |
| Haiden | Students' perceptions of academic support designed to counter the effects of 'underpreparedness' |
| Li | Interactive Learning of Exploratory Data Analysis Through Computer Visualisation |
| Peat | The Importance of Forming Social and Academic Networks for Students in Transition to University Study |
| Powell & Peel | Monitoring and Assisting Student Academci Progress: Results of a Student Progress Initiative in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University |
| Tindle | The impact of personal computers on physical and psychological health: strategies for staying in the "zone" |
| Vardi | What lecturers' want: An investigation of lecturers' expectations in first year essay writing tasks |
| Zulu | Towards learning support strategies that work: reflections on language experiences of first year students at the University of North West |
| Theme C - Transition and Adjustment | |
| Boyd & Baafi | Web based teaching and learning system for first year engineering computing |
| Calder | Online Learning Support: An Action Research Project |
| Cooper, Ellis & Sawyer | Expanded future opportunities provided by a bridging course at a regional university campus |
| Dancer & Fiebig | Modelling students at risk |
| Eagle & McDonald | Approbation and Apprehension. Coping with the first year of tertiary Business Study |
| Ferman & Andrews | Flexible Learning - What Students Think |
| Gleeson | Science 101: A pilot program aimed at facilitating transition into Science at the University of Melbourne |
| Gregory | First Year Students' Expectations of Working in Culturally Diverse Small Groups at University |
| Gunn-Lewis | English entry levels and academic success |
| Huon & Sankey | The Transition to University: Understanding differences in success |
| Kantanis | Transition to University - a holistic approach: A case study of the Monash Transition Program |
| Lee et al | Factors Related to Student Satisfaction with University |
| Mannan | An assessment of the Academic and Social Integration as Perceived by the Students in the University of Papua New Guinea |
| Moore et al. | Transition and text: a progress report of a web-based writing resource project |
| Tang | The 'role' of an Effective Learner Programme on 'Approaches of Studying' of First-year students in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Thies | A Jump Start... 'A series of programs to assist entering students progress successfully through their first year of study' |
| Tindle & Lincoln | Mature age students in transition: Factors contributing to their success in first year |
| Woodward | The Introduction of an Integrated First Year Experience: Some Lessons Learned |
| Theme D - Strategies and Innovations in Teaching and Learning | |
| Box et al | Increasing Student Participation in a First Year Materials Engineering Service Subject Taken by Mechanical Engineers |
| Butler | Teaching thinking and writing to first year nurses |
| Cafarella | Working together - does it help? |
| Cartwright & Noone | TULIP (Tertiary Undergraduate Literacy Integration Program): A project that focuses on the literacy development of tertiary students |
| Crisp | Introductory Chemistry for Science Majors. Can we match the Syllabus and the Students |
| Gallois | Teaching and Planning Innovations in Sociology at RMIT |
| Hollingworth & McLoughlin | The development of metacognitive skills among first year science students |
| Johnston | Learning Teams and Learning Diaries In First Year Business Studies: Balancing Student Independence and Support in Course Design and Curriculum Development. |
| Manathunga | Yärï - sharing knowings: enhancing a culturally and socially responsive curriculum |
| Manathunga & Borthwick | Teamwork in Unit Coordination |
| McLoughlin, Miron & O'Sullivan | Developing learning-to-learn skills in first year students |
| Miron, O'Sullivan & McLoughlin | Authentic Student Learning: Assisting Students to become Constructive Learners in a First Year Computing Science Unit |
| Nichols and Najar | Making knowledge claims in a postcolonial world: international postgraduate students' academic writing |
| Pearson & Beasley | An Evaluation of an Integrative Framework of Student Characteristics and Learning Approaches |
| Peat | A Virtual Learning Environment: support student learning on-line |
| Purnell | Tertiary Education that works for the Student! |
| Spinks | The craft of academic writing and the first year experience: the importance of marker to student communication |
| Tyson & Taylor | Excitement and anxiety in the first-year experiential classroom |
| Watson | A Peer Assistance Support Scheme (PASS) for First Year Core Subjects |
| Williams | Encouraging Creativity in University Education by Using Metaphors and Rich Pictures |
| Theme E - Program Management and Coordination | |
| Hinton & Tickner | Causes of attrition in first year students in Arts, Health and Sciences and Recommendation for Intervention |
| Theme F - Policy Directions | |
| Ashton & Beilby | Partnerships and Participation: Developing a University-Wide Transition Program |
For enquiries please contact the FYHE Conference Manager at fyhe@qut.edu.au
This page was last updated on 12/08/2005
