Australasian Higher Education Evaluation Forum (AHEEF) 2008

TIME

DETAILS

9.00am - 9.30am

Registration, Arrival & Refreshments    

9.30am - 9.40am

Welcome, introductions and house keeping -

A/Professor Sid Nair
Interim Director, Centre for Higher Education Quality
Monash University 

9.40am - 10.00am      

Official Welcome -

Professor Adam Shoemaker
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education)
Monash University 

10.00am - 11.00am        

Keynote Speech -

Professor (Emeritus) Harry Murray
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Student Evaluation of Teaching: Is it valid and does it improve teaching? 

11.00am - 11.30am

Morning Tea

11.30am - 12.00pm

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

12.00pm - 12.30pm

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

12.30pm - 1.00pm

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

1.00pm - 2.00pm

Lunch

2.00pm - 2.30pm

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

2.30pm - 3.00pm

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

3.00pm - 3.30pm

Carmel McNaught
Towards an institutional eLearning strategy: The long journey 

3.30pm - 4.00pm

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

4.00pm - 4.30 pm

Afternoon Tea 

4.30pm

Close of Day 1 

7.00 pm

Conference Dinner 

TIME

DETAILS

9.00am

Registration, Arrival & Refreshments 

9.20am - 9.30am

Announcements and housekeeping

Phillip Adams
Evaluations Manager, Centre for Higher Education Quality
Monash University 

9.30am - 10.00am

Elizabeth Santhanam
Historical Perspective of Evaluation Forum

10.00am - 10.30am

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

10.30am - 11.00am

Morning Tea 

11.00am - 11.30am

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

11.30am - 12.00pm

Karen Ousey
Simulated patients from Black and Ethnic Minority communities – their role in health care education  

12.00pm - 12.30pm

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

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Lunch 

1.30pm - 2.00pm

Lorraine Bennett
‘Leading Excellence’ - A Framework for Leading Evidence-Based Planning and Decision Making to Improve the Quality of the Learning Experience 

2.00pm - 2.30pm

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

3.00pm - 3.30pm

Open Discussion / Closing Comments

3.30pm - 4.00pm

Afternoon Tea