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| 8:30am | Welcome to Country & Conference | |||||
| 8:45am | Official Opening Professor Sandra Harding (Vice Chancellor & President, James Cook University) |
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| 9:00am | Keynote 1 Professor Kethia Wilson |
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| 10:00am | Morning Tea | |||||
| 10:30am | Concurrent 1 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Peer transition programs: Run by students for students |
Attrition and academic performance of students identified as at-risk using administrative data alone | Evolution of Novice Postgraduate Students | Creation of the first year law teacher: a question of transition... | Building confidence and getting out of your comfort zone: Creating easier pathways for Indigenous and remote prospective JCU students | |
| Speaker | Michelle Vincent (Newcastle), Alan Calder & Peter Hanley (JCU) | Jane Rienks & Stephanie Taylor (UTAS) | Josie Healy & Rena Frohman (QUT International College) | Katherine Lindsay (Newcastle) | Sue Muloin (JCU) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Academic & professional partnerships to enhance FYE | Building learning communities in FY | Enhancing equity & participation | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | |||||
| 11:05am | Concurrent 2 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Promoting participation and engagement in city life through a youth-driven approach - City of Melbourne Welcome to International Students | Student retention trends within a health foundation year and implications for orientation, engagement and retention strategies | Location, Location, Location | The Learning Circles Art project – transforming O Week at JCU | Personal tutors for first year law students: Adding to the pressure or lightening the load? | |
| Speaker | Gary Lee (City of Melbourne) | Ricardo Simeoni (Griffith) | Julie Godwin (UNE) | Peter Hanley, Linda Ashton & Kylie Bartlett (JCU) | Clare Cappa (UQ) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Academic & professional partnerships to enhance FYE | Building learning communities in FY | ||
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | |||||
| 11:40am | Concurrent 3 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | The impact of social learning spaces on student engagement | The early warning catches the student | What if second year is your first? Supporting VE to HE pathway students in a law based subject. | Stars on campus: Designing student mentoring programs to build mentor's sense of community, connections and engagement with other students and the university | Integrating learning services for integrated learning | |
| Speaker | Kelly Matthews (UQ) | Tanya Acheson, Scott Bradey & Elizabeth Siataga (JCU) | Tao Bak, Angelo Veljanovski & Helen Murphy (Victoria University) | Tristana Sidoryn (UniSA) | Judith Peacock (QUT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Academic & professional partnerships to enhance FYE | Building learning communities in FY | Institutional transformation & the FYE | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 12:15pm | Lunch | |||||
| 1:15pm | Concurrent 4 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Does access equal success? The critical role of the FYE in achieving equity in Higher Education | Successful Outcomes for Maori First-Year Distance Students | From foundations to outcomes: Evaluating the effectiveness of central mentor training in a peer mentoring program in the Griffith School of Environment. | A lecturer's toolbox: a 'just-in-time' approach for high quality first year student experience | Faculty focus on FYE for FY Associate Dean Teaching and Learning | |
| Speaker | Judy Skene & Sarah Evamy (UWA) | Frances White (Massey) | Laura Chandler & Catherine Howlett (Griffith) | Claire Macken (Deakin) | Kay Martinez (JCU) | |
| Theme | Invited Paper | Monitoring & intervention processes | Academic & professional partnerships to enhance FYE | Building learning communities in FY | Institutional transformation & the FYE | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 1:50pm | Concurrent 5 | A - continued | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Does access equal success? The critical role of the FYE in achieving equity in Higher Education | Learning to Reflect in the First Year of Legal Education: The Key to Surviving Legal Education and Legal Practice | Supporting Large First Year Cohorts through Selection & Skilling Sessional Tutors | Ascertaining the development of graduate attributes: the student perspective through self-assessment. | Diploma to Degree: Managing the VET student experience | |
| Speaker | Judy Skene & Sarah Evamy (UWA) | Rachael Field (QUT) | Belinda Johnson & Cathryn Kriewaldt (RMIT) | Muriel Strahm (CQU) | Janelle Davis (UWS) | |
| Theme | Invited Paper | Monitoring & intervention processes | Teaching &/or supporting large FY cohorts | Building learning communities in FY | Institutional transformation & the FYE | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | |||||
| 2:25pm | Concurrent 6 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Engaging first year students now and in the future:Reviewing a conceptual organiser for student engagement | Why do they come?: A review of individual student learning appointments | Operationalising first year curriculum principles | Social skills for new students: Giving students the skills today to make friends tomorrow | Can't I just google? | |
| Speaker | Linda Leach & Nick Zepke (Massey) | Natalie Brown (UTAS) | Margot Duncan (QUT) | Scott Morgan (Curtin) | Claire Brooks (Latrobe) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Teaching &/or supporting large FY cohorts | Best practice in peer to peer interaction in the FY | Institutional transformation & the FYE | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 3:00pm | Aftrnoon Tea | |||||
| 3:30pm | Concurrent 7 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Orientation Online: a new program at James Cook University to help commencing students prepare for university study | iDeaL: Deakin's English language diagnostic tool | Foundations - supporting FY medical students @UNSW | Implementing and sustaining successful Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) programs: Insights into practice - DOUBLE SESSION | Preparing tomorrow's lawyers today: graduate attributes in first year law | |
| Speaker | Elizabeth Smyth (JCU) | Lynn Morrison (Deakin) | Sophie di Corpo (UNSW) | Michelle Sanson (UWS) | ||
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Teaching &/or supporting large FY cohorts | Institutional transformation & the FYE | ||
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Ibis | ||
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| 5 mins | Room Change | |||||
| 4:05pm | Concurrent 8 | A | B | C | D - continued | E |
| Title | Emotional wellbeing of first year university students: Critical for determining future academic success | Breaking Down Barriers: Language and Spaces. Relationship Based Preparation for Humanitarian Entrant Students Entering University | The evolution of a community of practice at the Queensland University Of Technology for lecturers involved in large first year units | 'In the Eye of the Beholder': Exploring first year students' motives for choosing a particular foundation course. | ||
| Speaker | Libbie Douglass (CSU) | Matthew Hingston (UTAS) | Carol Quinn & Judith Smith (QUT) | Jane Skalicky (UTAS), Sally Rogan (Wollongong), Kylie Austin (Wollongong), Dennis Farrugia (Deakin) & Viola Rosario (Deakin) | Martina Muller (Murdoch) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Monitoring & intervention processes | Teaching &/or supporting large FY cohorts | Best practice in peer to peer interaction in the FY | Building expectations through marketing & recruitment strats | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | |||||
| 4:05pm | Concurrent 9 | A | B | C | D | E |
| Title | Strategically enhancing student engagement in the first year: focusing on sustainable interventions | Share a space for some thought: The dynamics of a learning space | Sweetening a bitter pill: Educational strategies supporting the foundation sciences in first year nursing. | The development of a structured Peer Assisted Study Program with required attendance | Turning today’s dreams into tomorrow’s reality: breaking down barriers and building aspiration for low-income students | |
| Speaker | Jacques Van Der Meer & Carole Scott (Uni of Otago) | Alan Calder & Bhama Daly (JCU) | Bernadette McCabe (USQ) | Karen Burke Da Silva (Flinders) | Gabrielle O'Brien (QUT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Design of learning space to develop community | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Best practice in peer to peer interaction in the FY | Building expectations through marketing & recruitment strats | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | Ibis | |
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| 5:10pm | End of Day 1 Program | |||||
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| Registration Open | |||||
| 8:45am | Keynote 2: Trevor Gale Room: Raffles 2 |
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| 9:45am | 2010 Conference Announcement | ||||
| 10:00am | Morning Tea | ||||
| 10:30am | Concurrent 10 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | Assisting transition through an Honours College program: An Australian perspective | Identifying the six principles in the first year essay feedback/assessment cycle | Building solid foundations: Developing literacy skills for life through a new Learning Progressions initiative | Developing a composition textbook and course for the Australian context | |
| Speaker | Ron Fisher & Jeanne McConachie (Griffith) | Gerry Rayner & Colleen Cridland (Monash) | Robyn McWilliams (AUT) & Margaret Wilson (Unitec) | Winifred Belmont (UNE) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | ||||
| 11:05am | Concurrent 11 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | Interventions to enhance the student experience of a first year Law degree: what they really wanted | Expanding staff repertoires of 'fit-for-purpose' assessment practices in first year subjects | Making the Connection: using on-line technologies to determine the learning needs of first year students in a human biology program | Becoming a First Year: When Expectations and Reality Collide ' reality realignment for enhanced transition to University. | |
| Speaker | Susan Armstrong & Marnie Campbell (UWS) | Maree Dinan-Thompson (JCU) | Catherine Snelling (Adelaide) | Ruth McPhail (Griffith) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | ||||
| 11:40am | Concurrent 12 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | Primoris humanus vita scientia: Engaging Human Life Science Students in the First Year Experience | Feedback to first year students in accounting: what they perceive and prefer | Using wikis to help first year students develop collaborative knowledge management skills for tomorrow | Navigating the culture of the faculty: Discovery Week in Art & Design at Monash University | |
| Speaker | Tracy Douglas (UTAS) | Ben Jacobsen (JCU) | Pierre Benckendorff (JCU) | Ed Irons (Monash) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
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| 12:15pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1:15pm | Concurrent 13 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | facebook ': engagement for transition and retention beyond the curriculum. | The online Diagnostic Academic English Language Test: enhancing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) First Year students' access to English language support mechanisms | IT Supported Lectures: Do students think they are worth it? | Biting Off More Than You Can Chew! Can First Year Programs Successfully Meet the Challenge of the Current Emphasis on Education Best Practice | |
| Speaker | Pamela Martin-Lynch (Murdoch) | Julia Dennis & Andrew Yardy (Newcastle) | Helen Cameron (UniSA) | Gary Hamlin & Nick Szorenyi-Reischl (JCU) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
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| 5 mins | Room Change | ||||
| 1:50pm | Concurrent 14 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | Mini Nuts and Bolts | Embedding Information Literacy in Commencing Student Assessment Tasks as a Foundation for Generic Skills | Hiccups and Hurdles: A Warts and All Look at the Online Revolution | AUT University FYE Programme...A systematic, intervention and monitoring programme. | |
| Speaker | Stephen Parsons (UniSA), Felicity Orme (UWS), Sandra Gault (Adelaide) and June Frost (RMIT) | Kym Cowley (Newcastle) | Lynne Zeldenryk (JCU) | Gema Carlson (AUT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
| [top] | Details (PDF) | Sandra Gault PPT & Handout , Felicity Orme, | View PDF | View PDF | View PDF |
| 5 mins | Room Change | ||||
| 2:25pm | Concurrent 15 | A - continued | B | C | D |
| Title | Mini Nuts and Bolts | Constructive guidance and feedback for learning: The usefulness of exemplars, marking sheets and different types of feedback in a first year Law subject | Initiating the use of e-Portfolio technology to enhance awareness of Graduate Attributes | Isolation and Integration: International Student Support ' Applying the Research | |
| Speaker | continued… | Susan Armstrong (UWS) | Lester Jones (Latrobe) | Louise Cooper (RMIT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Assessment of FY students | Innovative technology to enhance FY engagement | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
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| 2:55pm | Aftrnoon Tea | ||||
| Special Poster Session | |||||
| 3:50pm | Concurrent 16 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | The implementation of a principal tutor for first year psychology subjects at James Cook University Cairns Campus to increase student engagement. | Appreciating Difference: Transforming Learning Communities | Mini Nuts and Bolts | Intentional First Year Curriculum Design as a Means of Facilitating Student Engagement: Some Exemplars | |
| Speaker/s | Jason Lodge (JCU) | Dianne Kirby & Teresa Dluzewska (Newcastle) | Ingrid Wijeyewardene & Helen Patterson (UNE), Emma Maslen (Monash), Elizabeth Dlugon (UWS), Julie Grove (UNSW) & Audrey Stratton (Adelaide) | Rachael Field & Sally Kift (QUT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Enhancing equity & participation | Multiple themes | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Savoy | Portside | |
| [top] | Details (PDF) | View PDF | View PDF | View PDF | View PDF |
| 5 mins | Room Change | ||||
| 4:25pm | Concurrent 17 | A | B | C | D |
| Title | Using a networking engine such as Facebook, to enhance the feeling of social belonging, within the Nursing First Year cohort of a large University | Are the changing discourses of lifelong learning and student-centred learning relevant to considerations of the first year experience as foundation? | Mini Nuts and Bolts | How can teachers evaluate the language demands of texts? | |
| Speaker/s | Christine Howard (QUT) | Ann Luzeckyj (Flinders) | continued… | Alison Kirkness (AUT) | |
| Theme | Engagement & belonging - outside formal curriculum | Enhancing equity & participation | Multiple themes | Exemplar practice in reaching out to FY students | |
| Room | Raffles | Kingston | Portside | ||
| Details (PDF) | View PDF | View PDF | View PDF | ||
| 5:00pm | End of Day 2 program | ||||
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