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AHEEF 2012 Program

Monday 8 October 2012

Time
 Practice
 Principles
8:30am - 9:00am
 Registration
9:00am - 9:30am
 Forum Opening by Vice-Chancellor and President of CQUniversity Professor Scott Bowman (32/G18)
9:30am - 10:30am
 Keynote Address by Mr Ian Kimber, Executive Director, Regulation and Review Group, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (32/G18)
10:30am - 11:00am
 Morning Tea
11:00am - 11:45am

Workshop

Session 1: How to meet stakeholders’ expectations, not manage them? (32/LG15)
Lyn Alderman and Larissa Melanie
Queensland University of Technology

Session 2: Embedding a culture of self review and evaluation using evaluative conversations (32/G18)
Glenice Mayo and Stuart Terry
Otago Polytechnic
11:45am - 12:30pm

Session 3: Student evaluation of teaching: The students’ perspective (32/G18)
Trudy Harris and Linda Twiname
University of Waikato
12:30pm - 1:30pm
 Lunch
1:30pm - 2:15pm

Session 4: Embedding the eVALUATE culture: communicating to Curtin stakeholders (32/G18)
Beatrice Tucker and Julie–Ann Pegden

Curtin University

Workshop

Session 5: “It’s not my job”: Promoting ownership in the evaluation process (32/LG15)
Melanie Birks and Ysanne Chapman
CQUniversity
2:15pm - 3:00pm

Session 6: Exploring the relationship between class size and student ratings (32/G18)
Teegan Green, David King and Jon Edwards
The University of Queensland
3:00pm - 3:30pm
 Afternoon Tea
3:30pm - 4:15pm

Session 7: Student surveys and feedback: Strategic solution for all Tertiary education institutions (32/G18)
Mahsood Shah, RMIT University and Chenicheri Sid Nair, University of Western Australia

Session 8: REFRAME: A new approach to evaluation in higher education (32/LG15)
Lyn Alderman and Larissa Melanie
Queensland University of Technology
4:15pm - 5:00pm

Session 9: Exploring the impact on practice of tertiary teachers’ perceptions of student evaluations: A major influence to creating a culture of internal evaluation (32/G18)
Sarah Stein, University of Otago
Dorothy Spiller, University of Waikato
Stuart Terry, Otago Polytechnic
Lynley Deaker, Jo Kennedy, University of Otago
Trudy Harris, University of Waikato

Session 10: Embedding a robust evaluative culture through policy review (32/LG15)
Sara Booth, Cassandra Saunders and Yang Yang
University of Tasmania
5:00pm - 6:30pm
 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Time
 Practice Principles
8:30am - 9:00am
 Tea/Coffee
9:00am - 9:30am
 Welcome and Update by Professor Hilary Winchester, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic & Research (32/G18)
9:30am - 10:30am
 Keynote Address by Mr Phil Aungles, Director, Performance Section, Higher Education Division, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (32/G18)
10:30am - 11:00am
 Morning Tea
11:00am - 11:45am Session 11: Carrots, sticks and academic ethics: The use of incentives to increase evaluation response (32/G18)
Melanie Birks and Marc Broadbent
CQUniversity		 Session 12: What’s wrong with feedback? (32/LG15)
William Ashraf, Sabina Hussain, Sun A. Kyun and Bi-Hui Kwan
University of New South Wales
11:45am - 12:30pm

Session 13: Achieving high student evaluation of teaching response rates through a culture of academic-student collaboration (32/G18)
Diana Knight, Vishen Naidu and Shelley Kinash
Bond University

Session 14: Evaluation today and the creation of a peerless bureaucracy (32/LG15)
Simon Burgess
CQUniversity
12:30pm - 1:30pm
 Lunch
1.30pm – 2.15pm

Session 15: Does the timing of evaluation matter? An investigation into online student feedback and whether timing has an impact (32/G18)
Julie–Ann Pegden and Beatrice Tucker
Curtin University

 Session 16: Tertiary-education-quality perceptions in developed countries, during and after a half-century of internal evaluations (32/LG15)
Samanthala Hettihewa, University of Ballarat
Christopher Wright, University of Adelaide
2.15pm – 3.00pm

Session 17: A descriptive study of the factors involved in obtaining student feedback: Designing practical strategies to increase student response rates (32/G18)
Leone Hinton and Rebecca Shields
CQUniversity

Session 18: Embedding an internal evaluation culture: Critical issues for consideration from an innovative model (32/LG15)
Fay Patel
La Trobe University
3:00pm - 3:30pm
 Afternoon Tea
3:30pm - 4:15pm Session 19: How do we improve response rates? The constant question for online units (32/G18)
Christina Ballantyne
Murdoch University		 Session 20: Using rubrics to assist teachers to embed evaluation feedback in the development of their teaching and learning (32/LG15)
Trudy Harris, Dorothy Spiller, Michele Schoenberger-Orgad and Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten, University of Waikato

 
6:30pm
 Forum Dinner: Lagoon Restaurant, Mercure Capricorn Resort Yeppoon. Bus will depart CQUniversity 6.15 pm (full transport details will be advised closer to the Forum date).

Wednesday 10 October 2012

Time
 Details
 Principles
8:30am - 9:00am
 Tea/Coffee
9:00am - 9:15am
 Welcome
9:15am - 10:00am

Session 22: Engineering education quality enhancement: A case study at the School level (32/LG15)
Arun Patil, CQUniversity
Chenicheri Sid Nair, University of Western Australia
Jo Miller and Fae Martin CQUniversity
Patrick Keleher CQUniversity

Session 24: Intentionally (or not) ignored: Engaging transnational students in surveys and feedback (32/LG15)
Mahsood Shah, RMIT University,
Chenicheri Sid Nair, University of Western Australia and Barbara de la Harpe, RMIT University
10:00am - 10:30am Morning Tea
10:30am - 11:15am

Session 21: On-line, on-target and on-message: Course evaluation enhancements at CQUniversity (32/G18)
Rob Reed, Jo Miller and Jan Thomson
CQUniversity

Session 26: Diagnose e-assessment team practices, before evaluating the intervention! (32/G18)
James Callan, Scott Richardson, Patrick Keleher and Colin Beer
CQUniversity
11:15am - 12:00noon
 Session 27: Course Evaluation Dashboard Demonstration (32/G18)
Ken Diefenbach
CQUniversity
12:00pm - 12:45pm

Panel Forum (32/LG18)
Scott Bowman, Vice-Chancellor and President, CQUniversity
Phil Aungles Director, Performance Section, Higher Education Division, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
Beatrice Tucker, Manager Evaluation, Office of Teaching and Learning, Curtin University
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Forum Close and announcement of AHEEF 2013 by Professor Rob Reed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) (32/G18)
1:00pm - 2:00pm
 Light lunch and farewell