12:00-12:30 pm Late Registration and collection of WAIER forum materials

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Session A

A.1

Personality and beginning teachers: Some correlations and patterns through extensive case studies.

Roger Vallance

ND1/106

33

A.2

How adequate is a science curriculum for environmental education? A study of science teachers' perceptions

Irene Teh-Cheong Poh Ai and David Treagust

ND1/103

TBA

A.3

Teaching practices which significantly improve mathematics learning

Beverley J Webster

ND1/104

35

A.4

Hidden A-Genders

Kai. Chris Somers xxy

ND1/201

TBA

A.5

Instructional Principles for Technology Supported Education

Vanessa Chang

ND1/203

TBA

A.6

The impact of the World Wide Web on the delivery of education at Curtin University of Technology

Kum Leng Chin

ND1/205

TBA

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Session B

B.1

Preventing them from drifting into the ranks of habitual criminals and prostitutes: The girl problem and juvenile delinquency in Western Australia 1907-1950.

Rosemary Kerr

ND1/104

22

B.2

What (some) Pre-primary children know about print: Unlocking the technology of written texts

Sue Beilharz & Janet Hunter

ND1/106

14

B.3

Putting your unit on the web: Research and development issues

Roger Atkinson

ND1/103

13

B.4

Mathematics, multimedia and higher level thinking skills

Martin Cooper and Dr Dorit Maor

ND1/201

17

B.5

Primary visual arts specialist teachers' attitudes to the role of visual art works in their teaching programmes.

Diana Brown

ND1/203

18

B.6

Discoverland at Scitech: Science for the young child

Dr Wendy Speering and Sue Walmsley

ND1/205

29

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Session C

C.1

The 1975 closure of Kobeelya Church of England girls' school: Its origins and outcomes

Ian Melville

ND1/104

25

C.2

Discourse Analysis of Australian Teenage Magazines

See Keen Tan

ND1/106

30

C.3

A model to assist in the understanding of teachers' responses to high access computing environments

Paul Newhouse

ND1/ Lecture Theatre/ 103

26

C.4

Interviewing children: Issues and implications

Anna Sullivan

ND1/201

13

C.5

Principals' perceptions of the introduction of performance management

Gary Clyne

ND1/203

20

C.6

The influence of the teacher's subject matter knowledge and beliefs on teaching practices: A case study of an Indonesian teacher

Theresia Tirta Seputro

ND1/205

31

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Session D

D.1

A few different early twentieth century schools inWestern Australia

Noreen Riordan

ND1/104

28

D.2

The transfer of teaching skills into classroom practice: A follow-up study of newly graduated teachers

Shelleyann Scott & Dr. Rob Baker

ND1/106

28

D.3

Some do, some don't; some will, some won't: Turning teachers on to IT.

Barnard Clarkson

ND1/ Lecture Theatre/ 103

16

D.4

Recycling qualitative data: A proposal for an active exchange

Eva Dobozy and David Tripp

ND1/201

18

D.5

Aboriginal parent participation in school education

Mort Harslett, Bernard Harrison, John Godfrey, Gary Partington, Kaye Richer

ND1/203

21

D.6

Holistic or discrete?: A competency based assessment issue in the certificate of general education for adults reading and writing stream

Julienne van Loon

ND1/205

32

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session E

E.1

Education and Government Development Policy in Narrogin

Joanne Godfrey

ND1/104

33

E.2

Throw them a line: Tips for assisting students to survive their first semester at university

Jennie Bickmore-Brand

ND1/106

16

E.3

Technology and educational research: What path should we take?

Catherine McLoughlin

ND1/ Lecture Theatre/ 103

24

E.4

Teacher-student interactions in science classes: Differences between the perceptions of teachers and their students

Tony Rickards and Darrell Fisher

ND1/201

19

E.5

Learning environment and student attitudes in environmental science classrooms

David G. Henderson, Darrell L. Fisher. Barry J. Fraser

ND1/203

21

E.6

Montessori's Vision of the "freed" child: Issues and Relevancies

Eva Dobozy

ND1/205

34

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Session F

F.1

Murray Little and Western Australian state school policy in the 1940s.

Kaye Tully

ND1/104

31

F.2

The making of a teacher: a narrative study of the impact of an extended practicum on preservice teachers.

Deborah Ingram

ND1/106

17

F.3

Competency Based Education and Training - An International Perceptive

D Veal, S P Maj, T Fetherston

ND1/ Lecture Theatre/ 103

35

F.4

Writing the reality of mathematics teaching/learning

Pat Forster

ND1/201

20

F.5

Keeping up with VocEd in secondary schools

Clare McBeath & Jennie Bickmore-Brand

ND1/203

24

F.6

Bridging the theory/practice divide: Initiatives and responses in undergraduate sociology of education

James Bell

ND1/205

15

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Session G

G.1

Mature candidates for teacher training: A case study.

Roger Vallance

ND1/104

33

G.2

Aboriginal Education Workers and quality schools for Aboriginal students: What counts?

Partington, G., Richer, K.

ND1/106

35

G.3

Laptop computers and students' attitude to class, achievement and perceptions of classroom environment in science

Darrell Fisher and Ed Stolarchuk

ND1/ Lecture Theatre/ 103

19

G.4

Students' perceptions of the role school's policies and procedures played in their alienation from schooling

Karin Oerlemans and Heather Jenkins

ND1/201

26

G.5

A Description of Student Problem Solving Using a Heuristic in a Cooperative Group Setting

Kim Pitts-Hill, Kevin Barry, Leonard King, Scott Zehnder

ND1/203

27

G.6

Social skills development: Research in action

Susan Beltman

ND1/205

15