Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Forum 1996 Program This page is WAIER's official archival copy of the text of a printed document issued by WAIER in 1996.

12.30 pm	Registration: Open area outside LT/3
1.00 pm	Keynote presentation: Dr Anne Bloomfield		LT/3
Time	Session presenters	Title	Room
1.30 pm Session 1	Tony Fetherstone & Ken Knibb	Devising computer based methods to analyse data captured on video
	Clive Whitehead	The Nestor of British Colonial Education: a portrait of Arthur Mayhew (1878-1948)
	Helen Wildy & John Wallace	Professionalism and portfolios: Possibilities and pointers
	Barry Fraser, Campbell McRobbie & Darrell Fisher	Development of personal and class forms of a classroom environment questionnaire
	Bob Peck	Is it fair to assess English with multiple choice items?
	Carolyn Montgomery	What is good for the goose... Different truth games within upper school science classrooms
2.00 pm Session 2	Clare McBeath	A strategy for curriculum dissemination
	Rosemary Kerr	Writing child welfare history: An historiographical jigsaw?
	Desire Mallet	Perceptions of teachers about the design process
	Trudi Cooper	Portfolio assessment in higher education
	Felicity Haynes	Teaching Civics
	Tony Rickards	Associations between teacher-student interpersonal behaviour, cultural background and achievement
2.30 pm Session 3	Catherine McLoughlin	Higher order learning across the curriculum: the WA context
	Michael White	Researching and writing institutional histories
	Denise Chalmers, Richard Fuller & Andrew Guilfoyle	An empirical investigation on the effectiveness of teaching subject content and learning strategies at university
	Jill M. Aldridge & Barry J. Fraser	Interpersonal teacher behaviour in the primary school
	Susan Beltman	Motivation in post-compulsory secondary students: A longitudinal study
	Tony Rickards & Darrell Fisher	Associations between teacher-student interpersonal behaviour, cultural background and achievement
3.00 pm	Afternoon tea: 3.00 pm - 3.30 pm
3.30 pm Session 4	Phillip Cox & John Godfrey	The effect of formal assessment on student outcomes
	John Godfrey	The education of the whole person or the development of a fortress mentality: Carmel College 1960-1962
	Beverley Pascoe	Monitoring standards in education
	Jennifer Pearson	Managing equipment in primary science: New skills for experienced te achers
	Tom O'Donoghue & Ron Chalmers	The education of children with intellectual disabilities in WA: An historical perspective
4.00 pm Session 5	Deidra Young & Darrell Fisher	School effectiveness research in rural school
	Michael White	Researching and writing institutional histories
	Beverley Pascoe	Choosing music studies at high school: The influence of the primary schools years
	Kay Blood	Children without youth: Adult children in the helping professions
4.30 pm Session 6	Felicity Haynes	Mapping outcomes of critical thinking K-12
	Ken Knibb	EdStats: A statistical package for beginning researchers
	Russel Montgomery	Journal writing in Maths?
	Gary Partington	A model of the factors contributing to school retention for Aboriginal secondary students [Archives note: Timing may be incorrect]
	Peter G. Cole	ADD and ADHD: The Prevalence of these conditions and its management in a Western Australian educational context [Archives note: Timing may be incorrect]
5.00 pm	Open area outside LT/3: refreshments

Total number of presentations = 32. Archives note: There is some uncertainty about minor errors in the original document.