Program

Thursday 24 November

9.00 am Registration

9.30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks – Susie Groves.

9.35 am Item Response Modelling and Its Applications – Margaret Wu.

10.30 am Morning Tea

10.50 am Data Sets and Statistical Analysis Chair: Russell Tytler.

• Statistical Methods When Studying the Relationship Between Reading and Solving Mathematical Tasks – Magnus Österholm and Ewa Bergqvist.
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Students How do They See Themselves as Learners? – Frederick Wright.
• Multi-dimensional Modelling of Mathematical Capability – Brian Doig.
• The Power of the Press Using Newspaper Derived Materials in Historical Science Research – William Palmer.

12.30 pm Lunch

1.10 pm Researching Teachers and Teaching Chair: John Cripps Clark.

• A Community of Practice for Early Career Biology Teachers – Social Networking and Digital Technologies – Jacinta Duncan and Paul Chandler.
• Development of Enhanced Curriculum Through Student-based Research – Coral Campbell and Gaye Williams.
• Teachers Experiences Evaluating an Environmental Education Project in a Primary School in Yucatán, México – Karla Atoche-Rodriguez.
• Capturing the Complexities of ICT Use in a Primary Mathematics Classroom – Esther Loong.
• From Data to Theory to Data: Understanding the Out-of-field Teaching Experience – Linda Hobbs.

3.05 pm Afternoon Tea

Friday 25 November

9.00 am Studying Children: A Cultural-historical Approach – Marilyn Fleer

9.55 am Morning Tea

10.20 am Socio-cultural Perspectives – Chair: Susie Groves.

• Investigating Boundary Crossing in Pre-service Teacher Professional Experience: The Uses of Socio-cultural Theory and Methodology – John Cripps Clark.
• The Cultural-complexity Approach to Researching Mathematical Learning – Wendy Goff.
• Young Children’s Engagement with Environmental Sustainability – Ariel Wadick.
• Using Spatial Thinking to Teach Secondary Science – Dennis Fitzgerald.
• ‘Teach us How to Think About Science’ Developing a Curriculum Framework for a Flexible Learning Centre Conte– Kimberley Wilson.

12.15 pm Lunch

1.00 pm Video Ethnographic Methods Chair: Brian Doig.

• Operationalising Agency for Classroom Research– Jenny Arnold.
• Characterising Reasoning in Science Classrooms – Russell Tytler.
• Through the Viewfinder – Reflecting on Video Ethnography as an Approach to Classroom-based Research – Angela Fitzgerald.
• What are we Looking at? Thinking about the Visual in Video-based Classroom Research – Julianne Moss and Russell Tytler.

2.40 pm Afternoon Tea

3.00 pm Researching Across and Within Cultures Chair: Gaye Williams.

• Post-colonial Influences on Teacher Identity: Approaches to understanding Teacher Educators’ Experiences in Implementing Environmental Education in India – Sylvia Almeida.
• Content Analysis: Important Tool for Curricular Analysis in the Area of Environmental Education – Arely Paredes-Chi.
• Managing an International Research Project – George Aranda.

4.25 pm Closing session

5.00 pm Symposium ends