Australasian Higher Education Evaluation Forum (AHEEF) 2008

Evidence based Decision Making: Scholarship and Practice

Thursday 2 & Friday 3 October, 2008

Official Welcome
Professor Adam Shoemaker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education), Monash University, Australia

Keynote Speaker
Professor (Emeritus) Harry Murray, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Note: conference presentations are downloadable pps powerpoint files, all papers are available in the conference proceedings (pdf 285 mb)

Beatrice Tucker & Julie-Ann Pegden
Students’ perceived motivation to learn: consistency across units (Presentation)

Kara Gilbert, Sid Nair & Brett Williams
Acting on unit evaluation data: A strategic development initiative in Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences  (Presentation)

John Ogier
Making summative unit surveys totally summative - risks or opportunities?  (Presentation)

Eva Lui
Evaluating the usefulness of feedback to immersion programme students at the pre-programme and post-programme stages (Presentation)

Leone Hinton & Jo Miller
The Evaluative Event:  A Study of Academics Engaging in Evaluation Practices (Presentation)

CarmelMcNaught
Towards an institutional eLearning strategy: The long journey  (Presentation)

Rachel Symons
Colour coding, KPIs, and the Road to Damascus: shedding new light on reporting the student experience at the University of Sydney  (Presentation)

Elizabeth Santhanam
Historical Perspective of Evaluation Forum (Presentation)

Beatrice Tucker, Julie-Ann Pegden & Beverley Oliver
eVALUate: development and validation of a teaching survey  (Presentation)

Sid Nair, Phillip Adams, Stefano Ferraiuolo & Andrew Curtis
Survey Platform Influences Delivery and Response Rate (Presentation)

Karen Ousey & Lauren Holland
Simulated patients from Black and Ethnic Minority communities – their role in health care education   (Presentation)

Cathryn McCormack
Motivation: An appropriate topic for a teaching evaluation?  (Presentation)

LorraineBennett
‘Leading Excellence’ - A Framework for Leading Evidence-Based Planning and Decision Making to Improve the Quality of the Learning Experience  (Presentation)

Geoff Scott, Leonid Grebennikov & Mahsood Shah
Using qualitative data to prove and improve quality in Australian higher education (Presentation)

Fernando Padró
Shopping for Program Accreditation: Deciding on which accreditation agency to pursue (Presentation)