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Day 1 - Monday 29 June 2009
Time Content
8:30am Welcome to Country & Conference
8:45am Official Opening
Professor Sandra Harding (Vice Chancellor & President, James Cook University)
9:00am Keynote 1
Professor Kethia Wilson
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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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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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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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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Day 2 - Tuesday 30 June 2009
Time Content
  Registration Open
8:45am Keynote 2: Trevor Gale
Room: Raffles 2
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
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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
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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
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5:00pm End of Day 2 program

 

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