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Good CoP: What Makes a Community of Practice Successful?
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Baker, Anthony; Beames, Stephanie – Journal of Learning Design, 2016
We have established a community of practice focussed on student learning in first-year science. It is recognised that transition, whether from school to university or other possible transitions, is an issue that is a concern for the entire sector, and this is acknowledged both at Faculty and University level. One of the factors to which we…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, College Science
Benefit of the Doubt Approach to Assessing the Research Performance of Australian Universities
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Szuwarzynski, Andrzej – Higher Education Quarterly, 2019
This paper proposes a benefit of the doubt (BoD) approach to assess the research performance of 37 public Australian universities based on data from 2015. The primary activities of Higher Education institutions are teaching and research, but the prestige of a university depends mainly on the results of its research activities. The BoD method is…
Descriptors: State Universities, Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Reputation
In the Shadow of Sputnik: A Transnational Approach to Menzies Support for Science Education in Australia, 1957-1964
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Clark, Jennifer – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
This paper examines prime minister Robert Menzies decision to support science education in Australian schools in 1963. This was a landmark shift in policy for the federal government, but in many ways mirrors the decision of Eisenhower who brought down the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958. The paper uses a transnational approach to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Public Officials
Mathematics Education as a Field of Research: Have We Become Too Comfortable?
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Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
Mathematics education is highly regarded as a research field within our region, especially when compared to other fields within the broader education discipline. The field has been relatively cohesive, well organised and internationally influential in a universally strong field. Mathematics education research has developed and evolved in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Research Problems
Learning and Teaching Initiative Grants: 2012-2013. A Review
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Pearce, Jon; Kennedy, Gregor – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2014
The "Learning and Teaching Initiative Grants" scheme has funded about 120 projects with an "eLearning" focus during the past three years. Project leaders from twenty-nine completed 2012/2013 projects were interviewed with an aim of ascertaining innovative ideas that were successful, and unsuccessful, and exploring ways in which…
Descriptors: Grants, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Computer Uses in Education
Improving the Peer-Review Process for Grant Applications: Reliability, Validity, Bias, and Generalizability
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Jayasinghe, Upali W.; Bond, Nigel W. – American Psychologist, 2008
Peer review is a gatekeeper, the final arbiter of what is valued in academia, but it has been criticized in relation to traditional psychological research criteria of reliability, validity, generalizability, and potential biases. Despite a considerable literature, there is surprisingly little sound peer-review research examining these criteria or…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Psychological Studies, Validity, Social Sciences