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Download full textLikourezos, Vicki; Kalyuga, Slava – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
The variability effect occurs when learners' exposure to highly variable tasks results in better learning. It was hypothesised that learners who studied high variability worked examples would obtain higher post-test scores compared to learners who studied low variability examples, and learners who self-generated problem solutions for the same high…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability, Pretests Posttests, Learning Theories
Hine, Gregory – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
This research paper examines the perspective of the Heads of Learning Area: Mathematics (HOLAMs) within all Western Australian secondary schools as to why they felt capable students were not enrolling in the two higher-level mathematics courses of study. All HOLAMs were invited to participate in a single, anonymous online survey comprising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students
Sharp, Sue; O'Rourke, John; Iane, Jenny; Hays, Anne Maree – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
Recent Australian government policy has focused on attracting students from under- represented and diverse groups to tertiary education with university enabling courses one pathway for these students. This trend towards broader participation has altered traditional perceptions of a typical university student and raised delivery challenges. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Curriculum Design, Access to Education
Ellis, Bronwyn; Cooper, Nancy; Sawyer, Janet – 2001
Bridging courses are courses that prepare adult and other nontraditional students for undergraduate study. Focus groups examined the strengths, limitations, and impacts of bridging courses offered at a rural university campus in South Australia. A survey based on their responses was returned by 12 current students in bridging courses and 2 who had…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Courses, Educational Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged
Treagust, David F.; And Others – 1987
Most Aboriginal people in Australia lack the background qualifications to enter higher education courses in science and mathematics. In 1984, the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) (now Curtin University of Technology) developed a project which created and evaluated bridging courses for Aboriginal people seeking to gain access into…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Preparation, College Science, Foreign Countries
Chapman, Anne; Pyvis, David – 2000
Rural Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students making the transition from rural and remote areas of Australia to urban university environments are likely to face educational challenges. Different understandings of literacy and numeracy held by the TAFE and tertiary sectors intensify these challenges. Case studies of four Western Australia…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Adult Education, Case Studies, College Bound Students
