Teaching and Learning Unit

We regret to announce the 2012 Forum has been CANCELLED.

The Quantitative Forum in Commerce disciplines is a joint initiative of the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. It is now in its 8th year and regularly attracts between 80 and 100 participants from around 38 universities in the Australasian region.  Accepted papers are published in the refereed Forum proceedings.  The standard of presentations is typically very high.

Authors of accepted abstracts will receive free registration, but will be required to fund their own flight and accommodation.

Full papers due:	Friday 4 November 2011
Notification of acceptance of papers:	Friday 18 November 2011
Deadline for author registration:	Friday 27 January 2012
Other participants register by:	Friday 3 February 2012

 

Accepted papers will be presented on the following topics

PAPER TITLE	PRESENTERS	INSTITUTION
Does collaborative learning improve student performance: Attending to student learning styles and alternative instructional approaches in a post graduate quantitative business unit	Patrick Chamberlain	Edith Cowan University, WA
	Mark Waring	Edith Cowan University, WA
Measuring the effects of peer learning on students' academic achievement in Business Statistics	Kellie Morrison	University of Sydney
	Diane Dancer	University of Sydney
	Garth Tarr	University of Sydney
Enhancing student learning in negotiation skills through using in-authentic together with authentic assessment tasks	Peter Sheldon	University of New South Wales
	Julian Ehrlich	University of New South Wales
	Janis Wardrop	University of New South Wales
An evaluation of the use of intersemester data for exam aegrotat prediction when exams are cancelled	Paul McKeown	Lincoln University, NZ
	Gills Maclean	Lincoln University, NZ
Exploring the need for quantitative literacy support: surprising findings from a first year numeracy intervention.	Craig Taylor	La Trobe University, Victoria
	Linda Wannan-Edgar	La Trobe University, Victoria
The quality of teaching across Faculties at the University of Melbourne.	Joe Hirschberg	The University of Melbourne
	Jenny Lye	The University of Melbourne

 

A full program of the event can be downloaded here.

 

See the Teaching and Learning Forum archive page for details of past forums. Copies of previous Forum proceedings are available for purchase. Please click here for an order form.

For more information, contact:

Ms Sonia Puglielli
Forum Organiser
E: sonia.p@unimelb.edu.au

ph: 8344 3645

 

 

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