Day 1 - Sunday 27 June 2010 |
| 10:00am
- 3:00pm |
Pre-conference optional
Adelaide Tours |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Pre-Conference
Workshop
Professor Sally Kift & Assoc. Professor Karen Nelson |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Welcome to Adelaide Social Event |
Day 2 - Monday 28 June 2010 |
| 7:30am |
Registration
open |
| 9:00am |
Conference
opening
Official conference open & keynote introduction -
Professor Joanne Wright,
Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic,
University of South Australia |
| 9:30am |
Keynote Session #1
Professor
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Keynote text |
| 10:30am |
Morning
Tea
Proudly sponsored by
The Group of Eight |
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1B |
1C |
1D |
1E |
1F |
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A Multi-faceted Approach to Enhance
the First Year Experience and Professional Skills of Computer and
Information Science Students |
Online Campus Navigation Tool for Mobility Challenged
Students |
Course diversity
within South Australian secondary schools as a factor of successful
transition and retention within Australian Universities |
An ethnographic approach to studying
the student experience : The student perspective through free form
video diaries |
Formally calling the CoPs for staff
working with first year students |
Supporting Academic Success: A
strategy that benefits learners and teachers |
| Nina Evans & Kathy Darzanos -
University of South Australia |
Brett Wilkinson & Paula Williams - Flinders University |
Scott Wright -
National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education |
Annette Cashmore, Paul Green &
Jon Scott - University of Leicester |
Ann Luzeckyj, Karen Agutter, Regina
Sliuzas, Lisa Schmidt & Louise Reynolds - Flinders University |
Helen Johnston, Diana Quinn,
Syed Mahfuzul Aziz & C. Yalçın Kaya - University of South
Australia |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Equity Issues facing FY students |
Accomm Diversity
Through Curriculum&Co-Curricular Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Academic & Professional
Partnerships To Enhance FYHE |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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| 11:35am |
2A |
2B |
2C |
2D |
2E |
2F |
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Evidence into practice: evaluation
of an innovative information literacy model for first year Health
Sciences students |
Ensuring successful pathways in law: evaluation of
alignment of assessment tasks for VH-HE articulating students studying
law subjects at VU. |
Diverse Transitions |
Academic support for first year
students transferring to other programs |
An on-line resource to support first
year students' psychosocial and academic transition |
Perceptions and Decision-Making: The
Usefulness of the English for Academic Purposes Program for Foundation
Year International Students |
| Jenny Corbin & Sharon Karasmanis
- La Trobe University |
Tao Bak, Peter Moraitis & Helen Murphy - Victoria
University |
Elizabeth Reid & Ian Solomonides
- Macquarie University |
Louise Reynolds & Salah Kutieleh
- Flinders University |
Dianne Kirby, Teresa Dluzewska &
Dr Jill Scevak - The University of Newcastle |
Frank Sanders & Elizabeth Jane
Garton - The University of Melbourne |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Accomm Diversity Through
Curriculum&Co-Curricular Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Academic & Professional
Partnerships To Enhance FYHE |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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3A |
3B |
3C |
3D |
3E |
3F |
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A 3-Tier Model for Supporting
Reading Literacy among First Year Students |
Supporting FY student achievement in
assessments in an interdisciplinary programme |
Catering for the language needs of
diverse first year science students |
Getting personal with marketing
research: A first year teaching innovation |
An exemplar academic &
professional partnership: Evidence of collaboration to enhance
institutional practice |
Broadening the appeal of a mentoring
program to first year students in a science research culture |
| Charl Nel & Carisma Nel -
North-West University |
Irshad Ali, Graeme Davis &
Brendan McLister - AUT University |
Felicia Zhang & Brett Lidbury -
University of Canberra, Jurgen Schulte - University of
Technology, Sydney, Adam Bridgeman - The University of Sydney, Brian
Yates - University of Tasmania & John Rodger - University of
Newcastle |
Mary FitzPatrick, Janet Davey &
Monica van Oostrom - University of Waikato |
Catherine Howlett, Deanna Tomerini
& Laura Chandler - Griffith University |
Misha Donohue & Charlotte Taylor
- University of Sydney |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Accomm Diversity Through
Curriculum&Co-Curricular Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Academic & Professional
Partnerships To Enhance FYHE |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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| 12:40pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30pm |
Keynote Introduction - Professor Andrew Parkin,
Deputy Vice Chancellor:
Academic, Flinders University |
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Keynote Session #2
Professor Ruth
Pickford
Keynote text |
| 2:30pm |
Afternoon
Tea |
| 3:00pm |
4A |
4B |
4C |
4D |
4E |
4F |
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StudyLink: A case study of an
enabling program supporting the transition to the first year of
University |
First Year at Risk Intervention
Pilot Project: An intervention to support first year students
experiencing early assessment failure |
Engaging first year students with
diverse mathematics background |
tUNEup from Home University
Preparation Course: An innovative practice to support first year
students |
An Orientation Program for First
Year International Students in the Faculty of Health at the University
of Newcastle |
Developing productive relationships
with partner schools to widen participation |
| Liz Smith - Charles Sturt University |
Anna Potter & Anne Parkinson -
University of the Sunshine Coast |
Kam-Moon Liu, Wing-Cheong Ho &
Kwok-Chi Chim - City University of Hong Kong |
Helen Pendreigh & Ingrid
Wijeyewardene - University of New England |
Judith Scott, Ruth Gresham &
Julia Dennis - The University of Newcastle |
Judy Skene - The University of
Western Australia |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Accomm Diversity Through
Curriculum&Co-Curricular Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Academic & Professional
Partnerships To Enhance FYHE |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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| 3:30pm |
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| 3:35pm |
5A |
5B |
5C |
5D |
5E |
5F |
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First Year Student Resilience as a Factor in Retention and
Engagement |
Addressing the high levels of psychological distress in
law students through intentional assessment and feedback design in the
first year law curriculum |
Transformative learning in first year Indigenous
Australian studies: Posing problems, asking questions and achieving
change |
Off-Campus Orientation Vodcast Project |
Engaging Students by Monitoring Attendance and
Participation |
‘It was all too much.’ The vulnerability of vocational
education entrants in their first year of Bachelor of Early Childhood
Education studies |
| Merrelyn Bates & Toby Miles-Johnson – Griffith
University |
Rachael Field & Sally Kift - Queensland University of
Technology |
Elizabeth Mackinlay & Katelyn Barney - The University
of Queensland |
Alison Whitley, Jill Falkland & Jude Little - Monash
University |
Phil Schneider - James Cook University |
Victoria Whitington & Carol Thompson - University of
South Australia |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Accomm Diversity Through Curriculum&Co-Curricular
Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
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Strategies For Supporting And Widening Participation... |
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| 4:05pm |
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| 4:10pm |
6A |
6B |
6C |
6D |
6E |
6F |
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Scaffolding key academic skills in a Bachelor of Health
Science program |
Using dimensions of teaching practice to contextualise
equity and transition: A case study in first-year Human Biology |
Crediting Academic Skills: The design and implementation
of a first year academic skills subject |
An economic case for systematic student monitoring and
intervention in the first year in higher education |
Supporting and challenging first year students: Evaluation
of an embedded peer tutoring model in three disciplines |
Integrated Learning Engineering – Taking First Year
Engineering into Secondary Schools |
| Yvonne Parry & Louise Reynolds - Flinders University |
Kelly Matthews & Karen Moni - The University of
Queensland & Roger Moni - Griffith University |
Andrew Johnson, Matthew Piscioneri & Jim Hlavac -
Monash University |
Andrew Marrington, Karen Nelson & John Clarke -
Queensland University of Technology |
Andrea Chester, Sophia Xenos, Rick Ryan, Karen Elgar,
Andrew Telley & Jie Li - RMIT |
Richard White - University of the Sunshine Coast |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Accomm Diversity Through Curriculum&Co-Curricular
Activities |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
Pedagogies For Social Inclusion In Higher Education |
Strategies For Supporting And Widening Participation... |
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| 4:40pm |
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| 4:45pm |
7A |
7B |
7C |
7D |
7E |
7F |
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Mapping Graduate Qualities in an undergraduate Health
Science program |
The development over two years of an online formative and
summative writing tool used by first year biology students |
Recruiting Rural and Remote Law Students: Creating
Aspiration and Support in Transition at Newcastle Law School |
Using technology to support student transition into higher
education |
The expectations-reality interface: Visual literacy
levels, predominant learning modalities and preferences among first year
design students |
Bridges and barriers to success for Pacific Islanders
completing their first year at an Australian university |
| Louise Reynolds & Yvonne Parry - Flinders University |
Osu Lilje & Mary Peat - The University of Sydney |
Sher Campbell & Kate Lindsay - Newcastle Law School |
Chris Cane, Annette Cashmore, Sam Nikoi & Palitha
Edirisingha - University of Leicester & Robert Cane - University of
Oxford |
Zena O'Connor - The University of Sydney & Arianne
Rourke - The University of New South Wales |
Judith Kearney & Martina Donaghy - Griffith University |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality Mismatch |
Strategies For Supporting And Widening Participation... |
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| 5:15pm |
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| 6:00pm |
NCSEHE Panel Session |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
Conference Welcome Reception |
Day 3 - Tuesday 29 June 2010 |
| 8:00am |
Breakfast served |
| 8:30am |
Keynote Introduction - Professor Trevor Gale,
Director,
National Centre for
Student Equity in Higher Education |
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NCSEHE Keynote and Breakfast Session #3
Professor
Bob Lingard |
| 9:30am |
Tea
break |
| 10:00am |
8A |
8B |
8C |
8D |
8E |
8F |
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Identifying and supporting the
‘transition phase’ in the student life-cycle |
Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down! A 5-Step
Assessment Approach to Enhance First Year Assessment Practice |
The development of an on-line module
for students on "Working in Inter-cultural Teams" |
Transforming the first-year learning
experience through research based media practice |
From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Bachelor Boy’ and beyond: Bridging
the gap between expectations and reality for first year students |
Reconnecting Rural and Isolated
Youth with Higher Education |
| Marco Angelini - University College
London |
Claire Macken - Deakin University |
Carole Quinn & Judith Smith -
Queensland University of Technology |
Denise Wood - University of South
Australia |
Sarah O’ Shea & Pauline Lysaght - The University of
Wollongong |
Dianne Bills - University of South
Australia & Adrijana Asceric - National Centre for Student Equity in
Higher Education |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality Mismatch |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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| 10:35am |
9A |
9B |
9C |
9D |
9E |
9F |
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A developing pedagogy for
integrating generic skills in course delivery: a collaborative approach |
Communities of practice:
collaboration between Business School discipline and Communication
Skills staff in a core First-Year unit. |
Giving the edge, getting ahead:
libraries, literacies and learning |
Conceptualising the English language
needs of first year university students |
Managing the expectations–reality
mismatch through aspirations, access and achievement: Engineering a
first year undergraduate student’s habitus |
Don’t ask me what I think of you I
might not give the answer that you want me to: An exploration of 1st
year university students’ expectations and experiences from the
students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. |
| Linda Thies, Claire
Henderson-Wilson, Matthew Ebden & Dionne Holland - Deakin University |
Patricia Dooey - Curtin University |
Judith Peacock, Kathryn Derrington,
Susannah Kate Devitt & Bernadette Willans - Queensland University of
Technology |
Neil Murray - University of South
Australia |
Barnard Janse van Rensburg, Patrick
Danaher & Henriette van Rensburg - University of Southern Queensland |
Ann Luzeckyj & Karen Burke da
Silva - Flinders University, Sheila Scutter - University of South
Australia & Edward Palmer & Russell Brinkworth - University of
Adelaide |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality
Mismatch |
Strategies For Supporting And
Widening Participation... |
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10A |
10B |
10C |
10D |
10E |
10F |
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A Day in the Life of a Manager:
First Year Engagement through Active Learning |
Using choice in assessment to
motivate students: the CSI assignment in a first year biology course |
e-Portfolio, graduate attributes and
first year students: a tricky trio |
The value of an open, early academic
development program to students’ transition and first year experience:
the UTAS UniStart program. |
Evaluating First Year Experiences in Design Education
using 'First Year Attributes' |
Using your powers for good on equity101: a
practical guide to free research and networking tools for equity in
first year higher education |
| Janet Davey, Josef de Jong &
Glyndwr Jones - University of Waikato |
Ann Parkinson, Colleen Kneale &
Leigh Findlay - University of the Sunshine Coast |
Lester Jones –La Trobe University |
Andrea Adam, Cathy Hartigan &
Natalie Brown - University of Tasmania |
Lizzie Muller & Mukti Bawa - University of Technology
Sydney |
Sophie Relf & Jennifer Stokes - National Centre for
Student Equity in Higher Education |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality Mismatch |
Equity101 Demonstration |
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| 11:40am |
Lunch
& Poster Viewing |
Special
Interest Group
Online Orientation Programs
Facilitator: Elizabeth Smyth (JCU) |
| 1:00pm |
11A |
11B |
11C |
11D |
11E |
11F |
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The development of a Good Practice
Guide for first year curriculum development, revision and evaluation - a
moving feast |
Uncovering unit level performance
for first year |
“The Learning Couch”: An online
self-directed tool for supporting students development of effective
approaches to learning |
Improving perceptions of good
teaching in large first year groups through peer assisted learning |
When good mentoring programs seem
bad: Managing expectations for ever-increasing numbers of first years |
Ensuring the Big Splash at
Orientation makes long-lasting ripples: Connecting Innovative Practices
from Curtin's retention plan |
| Tracy Creagh, Karen Nelson &
John Clarke - Queensland University of Technology |
Dennis Bryant & Felicia Zhang -
University of Canberra |
Debra Bath & John Bourke -
Griffith University |
Paul Myers, Daryll Cahill, Lila
Kemlo, Sonia Magdziarz & Joan Pagonis - RMIT University |
Katharine Slattery & Nerida
Jarkey - University of Sydney |
Jim Elliott, Betty Verhelst &
Ebonee Lynch - Curtin University |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Assessment & FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality
Mismatch |
Mini Nuts and Bolts |
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| 1:30pm |
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| 1:35pm |
12A |
12B |
12C |
12D |
12E |
12F |
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Enhancing learning experiences to
improve outcomes through sessional tutor conceptual expansion |
A threshold concepts focus to first
year law curriculum design: supporting student learning using variation
theory |
How do podcasts influence the
transition to first year university study? |
Strengthening commencing students'
sense of purpose: Integrating theory and practice |
Softening the culture shock for
International Students entering Australian Universities |
I am Sam, Sam I am: Online
orientation for off-campus students |
| Toomas Truuvert - Macquarie
University |
Gerlese Akerlind &
Judith Jones - Australian National University, Susan Carr-Greg, Leanne
Houston & Jo McKenzie - University of Technology Sydney &
Rachael Field, Mandy Lupton & Cheryl Treloar - Queensland University
of Technology |
Sheila Scutter & Sharron King -
University of South Australia |
Alf Lizzio & Keithia Wilson -
Griffith University |
Helen Cameron - University of South
Australia & Catherine Kirkman - University of Tasmania |
Andrea Nazzari – Deakin University |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Managing The Expectations - Reality
Mismatch |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
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| 2:05pm |
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| 2:10pm |
13A |
13B |
13C |
13D |
13E |
13F |
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Indigenous Knowledges: informing and
supporting Indigenous students during their first year at University |
A threshold concepts
focus to first year law curriculum design: supporting student learning
using variation theory (cont') |
Games students play: Engaging first
year undergraduate students in foundation material through the use of a
digital game |
Supporting academic honesty in first
year students through the embedding of VPASS |
A Transition Pedagogy: Third Generation FYE - A case study
of policy and practice for the Higher Education sector |
To-day's School-Leavers: The 'Me'
Generation or the 'We' Generation |
| Melanie Syron & Juliana
McLaughlin - Queensland University of Technology |
Susan Salter, Tracy Douglas, Jane
Pittaway, Karen Swabey & Mike Capstick - University of Tasmania |
Nadia McDonagh & Maree Stenglin -
The University of Sydney |
Sally Kift, Karen Nelson & John Clarke- Queensland
University of Technology |
Jeanne McConachie & Kim Holmes -
Griffith University |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Invited Paper |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
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| 2:40pm |
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| 2:45pm |
14A |
14B |
14C |
14D |
14E |
14F |
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Scaffolding transition into higher
education: The Pod experience |
TLC: A Marketing Orientation to take
students from Aspiration and Access to Achievement |
Communicating with first year
students; so many channels but is anyone listening? |
People Prepared to Make a Difference
- tanga tu, tangata ora |
A Transition Pedagogy:
Third Generation FYE - A case study of policy and practice for the
Higher Education sector (cont') |
Student transitions – an embedded
skills approach to scaffolded learning in a nursing curriculum |
| Sharn Donnison & Jennifer
Masters - La Trobe University |
Pamela Martin-Lynch - Murdoch
University |
Jason Lodge - Queensland University
of Technology |
Jeni Moir - University of Canterbury |
Angie Cassar - Victoria University |
| Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Institutional Transformation For
FYHE |
Innovative Technologies For
Enhancing FY Engagement |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
Exemplar & Innovative Practices
to support FY Students |
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| 3:15pm |
Afternoon
Tea |
| 3:45pm |
Keynote Introduction - Professor James McWha,
Vice Chancellor,
University of Adelaide |
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Keynote Session #4
Professor
Marcia Devlin
Keynote Text |
| 4:45pm |
Conference
Close & 2011 Conference annoucement |
| 7:00pm - late |
Conference Banquet |
| Day 4 -
Wednesday 30 June 2010 |
| 9:00am -
10:30am |
ALTC Award Winners Panel
Facilitator: Claire Macken (Deakin University) |
| 10:30am |
Morning
Tea |
| 11:00am |
Workshops:
Workshop 1 - Professor Ruth
Pickford
Workshop 2: Associate
Professor Karen Nelson |
| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
| 1:15pm |
Workshops:
Workshop 3 - Professor Ruth Pickford (repeat of Workshop 1)
Workshop 4: Assoc. Professor Karen Nelson (repeat of Workshop
2) |
| 2:45pm |
Afternoon
Tea / Workshop end |
