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Rachael Hains-Wesson; Kaiying Ji; Eliza Wu; Vikki Pollard – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
In this study, we investigate the benefits and barriers to postgraduate students' employability skill attainment through an in-person, boardroom role play activity titled "Theatre of the Board." We use a case study approach that incorporates mixed methods to analyse 157 pre- and post-survey student responses and twelve reflective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Role Playing, Employment Potential
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Scarparolo, Gemma; Mayne, Fiona – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Communicating effectively with parents and carers is an important skill for pre-service teachers to develop. However, they often graduate underprepared due to limited opportunities for parent interaction during their course. When engaging with parents, pre-service teachers must be able to confidently articulate their pedagogical choices, provide…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Preservice Teachers, Parent Teacher Conferences, Technology Integration
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Bongiovanni, Ivano – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
In this role-playing teaching case, students impersonate Selective Consulting, a fictitious, Australian-based company tasked with assessing the information security practices of SkillPlat, a provider of apprenticeship and traineeship services. The case develops around the one-week visit paid by Selective Consulting to SkillPlat's headquarters,…
Descriptors: Information Security, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Fleer, Marilyn – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Government guidelines are demanding greater educational outcomes and intentional teaching in Australian preschools. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of how children incorporate concepts into child-initiated play. A cohort of 18 children (aged 3.0-5.8, mean age of 4.8) were digitally observed over seven weeks…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Role Playing, Play, Preschool Children
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Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens; Richard Sallis; Annemaree O'Brien – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This paper reports on a major study which examined how middle-primary teachers (of students aged 8-10) in Australia used drama-rich pedagogy in their literacy programs to support the development of academic language proficiency, a critical element of ongoing student progress in literacy beyond the early years. Despite its proven status as a…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education
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Kendall Herbert; Ling Mei Cong; David Goodwin – Accounting Education, 2024
Despite recognition of the high value placed on interpersonal skills (IPS) by education, business and government stakeholders, this area of skills development only has a limited place within MBA programs. This paper introduces and tests the effectiveness of a mock-business simulation named 'Practice Aspects of Management' incorporated into an…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Accounting
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Rachael Hains-Wesson; Kiaying Ji; Eliza Wu – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
In this study, an in-person simulated role play as a worthwhile approach in preparation for work-integrated learning (WIL) through a theater and reality of the board (TROB) pedagogical model is explored. Students participated in a twelve week, in-semester TROB program, acting out in-person board room positions, such as Chair and Secretary before…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Skill Development
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Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Gibson, Jenny Louise – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Backgrounds and aims: Early symbolic play abilities are closely related to long-term language development for both autistic and non-autistic children, but few studies have explored these relations for different dimensions of pretence and of language. The current study explores carer-reported measures of solitary symbolic play, object substitution…
Descriptors: Play, Role Playing, Peer Relationship, Prediction
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Pazell, Sara; Hamilton, Anita – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Undergraduate education is competitive. User experience is important to course design because it can improve user-satisfaction and learning. Action research methodology was used in our practice-oriented case study about the application of human-factors methods to re-design an undergraduate second-year occupational therapy course. A cognitive task…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Undergraduate Students, Occupational Therapy, Curriculum Development
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Scholes, Colin A.; Hu, Guoping – Chemical Engineering Education, 2021
A practical for students to experience a process plant is presented, based on operating a solvent absorption plant for carbon dioxide capture. The student must operate the plant in assigned roles that closely identify with a chemical plant environment, to achieve specific performance targets. Students must overcome technical challenges that…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Facilities, Chemistry
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Collins, Pauline – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
Encouraging life-long learner skills and preparing students for a new style of lawyering in the 21st Century to meet changing needs requires approaching teaching in renewed ways. This paper describes the action reflection learning approach adopted when teaching a mediation law course in an Australian law school. The approach and outcomes are…
Descriptors: Reflection, Conflict Resolution, Lifelong Learning, 21st Century Skills
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Roever, Carsten; Ikeda, Naoki – Language Testing, 2022
The overarching aim of the study is to explore the extent to which test takers' performances on monologic speaking tasks provide information about their interactional competence. This is an important concern from a test use perspective, as stakeholders tend to consider test scores as providing comprehensive information about all aspects of L2…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Tests, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Testing
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Spathis, Jemima G.; Mahoney, John W.; Hoffman, Ben W. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Little is known about the effectiveness of simulation in health professionals who are 'hands-off' practitioners such as, exercise physiologists. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using simulation, towards improving knowledge, confidence and experience in exercise physiology students. Fifty-two (M[subscript age]= 22 years)…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Exercise Physiology, Allied Health Personnel
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Church, Amelia; Bateman, Amanda – Teacher Development, 2020
Here the authors explore everyday teaching strategies that work to implement early childhood curriculum frameworks, using published transcripts of video-recorded data of real-life teacher-child interactions in early childhood centres in Australia and New Zealand. The analysis uses a conversation analysis approach to reveal the sequences of action…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship
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Deejay, Aleks; Rublee, Maria Rost; Zech, Steven T. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
This article details a role-playing "citizenship simulation" used in a large graduate seminar offered by the Masters of International Relations (IR) faculty at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. While recognizing the need for a more systematic analysis of the relationship between class size and active learning strategies, this…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Role Playing, Citizenship Education, Large Group Instruction
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