This research investigates how students used or “blended ” the various learning resources, includ... more This research investigates how students used or “blended ” the various learning resources, including people,while studying a compulsory, first year accounting unit. The unit design incorporated a blended learning approach. The study was motivated by perceived low rates of attendance and low levels of communication with lecturers which raised concerns that students were not managing their learning in this flexible, resource- and choice-rich environment. Students were surveyed to identify what resources and study approaches they relied on. The results showed that different students used resources and approaches in a diversity of ways to produce individual and distinctive “blends ” even when several core strategies appeared to exist. This research demonstrates (1) that first-year students can choose and utilise resources in a great variety of ways when they control what and how they blend, and (2) the potential importance to students of genuine flexibility in how they interact with the...
This report focuses on two aspects of risk, administrative risk groups based on demographic, cour... more This report focuses on two aspects of risk, administrative risk groups based on demographic, course, admission and prior education information and early academic risk. This is whether a student had failed (and how badly) their commencing semester. The outcomes reported in this study include completion and attrition rates, and broad outcomes, that is, whether a student had completed or was still in study at the end of the time frame of interest. This study compares them for the undergraduate cohorts commencing in summer/semester one of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and includes three year outcomes for the 2008 and 2009 cohorts. In addition, the cohorts are compared to see whether the risk group composition of cohorts and early failure are consistent. The study also examines the major outcomes of the individual risk groups across the three cohorts. These results show that risk is a relatively stable phenomenon, both in terms of the composition of cohorts and in the outcomes of students. The certainty of risk and the relative stability of outcomes have implications for strategies to improve retention and completion rates.
Higher education institutionscollect data during the applications and admissions process that cor... more Higher education institutionscollect data during the applications and admissions process that corresponds directly or indirectly with demographic and background factors, prior educational background and admissions pathways that are known to be associated with lower retention or poorer outcomes in tertiary study. We reported the retention and first semester academic outcomes of groups with these ‘administrative’ risk factors in the cohort who commenced in 2008 (Rienks & Taylor, 2009 ). We found that many of these risk factors were associated with higher attrition and lower performance than their peers who did not have any of these risk factors. The current study reports the longitudinal outcomes for these students, and compares their retention, progression and completion across the three years with those of students who lacked these risk factors.
Eurema sana (Butler) appears to be a seasonal morph of E. laeta lineata (Miskin): offspring with ... more Eurema sana (Butler) appears to be a seasonal morph of E. laeta lineata (Miskin): offspring with the “sana” phenotype were produced from “laeta” mothers by rearing the offspring at high temperatures and long photoperiods. The “laeta” morphs produced by rearing at lower temperatures and or a shorter photoperiod did not show the full range of underwing colour seen in field-caught “laeia”.Field collections over 15 months in Townsville showed that the “sana” morph predominated from midsummer to mid-autumn, the switch to “laeta” occurring in April-May.
... stages of seven pierid butterfly species with diverse feeding habits from the Australian trop... more ... stages of seven pierid butterfly species with diverse feeding habits from the Australian tropics: the grass yellows, E. hecabe phoebus (Butler), E. smilax (Donovan), E. brigitta australis (Wallace), E. herla (WS Macleay) and E. laeta lineata (Miskin); the lemon migrant, Catopsilia ...
This research investigates how students used or “blended ” the various learning resources, includ... more This research investigates how students used or “blended ” the various learning resources, including people,while studying a compulsory, first year accounting unit. The unit design incorporated a blended learning approach. The study was motivated by perceived low rates of attendance and low levels of communication with lecturers which raised concerns that students were not managing their learning in this flexible, resource- and choice-rich environment. Students were surveyed to identify what resources and study approaches they relied on. The results showed that different students used resources and approaches in a diversity of ways to produce individual and distinctive “blends ” even when several core strategies appeared to exist. This research demonstrates (1) that first-year students can choose and utilise resources in a great variety of ways when they control what and how they blend, and (2) the potential importance to students of genuine flexibility in how they interact with the...
This report focuses on two aspects of risk, administrative risk groups based on demographic, cour... more This report focuses on two aspects of risk, administrative risk groups based on demographic, course, admission and prior education information and early academic risk. This is whether a student had failed (and how badly) their commencing semester. The outcomes reported in this study include completion and attrition rates, and broad outcomes, that is, whether a student had completed or was still in study at the end of the time frame of interest. This study compares them for the undergraduate cohorts commencing in summer/semester one of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and includes three year outcomes for the 2008 and 2009 cohorts. In addition, the cohorts are compared to see whether the risk group composition of cohorts and early failure are consistent. The study also examines the major outcomes of the individual risk groups across the three cohorts. These results show that risk is a relatively stable phenomenon, both in terms of the composition of cohorts and in the outcomes of students. The certainty of risk and the relative stability of outcomes have implications for strategies to improve retention and completion rates.
Higher education institutionscollect data during the applications and admissions process that cor... more Higher education institutionscollect data during the applications and admissions process that corresponds directly or indirectly with demographic and background factors, prior educational background and admissions pathways that are known to be associated with lower retention or poorer outcomes in tertiary study. We reported the retention and first semester academic outcomes of groups with these ‘administrative’ risk factors in the cohort who commenced in 2008 (Rienks & Taylor, 2009 ). We found that many of these risk factors were associated with higher attrition and lower performance than their peers who did not have any of these risk factors. The current study reports the longitudinal outcomes for these students, and compares their retention, progression and completion across the three years with those of students who lacked these risk factors.
Eurema sana (Butler) appears to be a seasonal morph of E. laeta lineata (Miskin): offspring with ... more Eurema sana (Butler) appears to be a seasonal morph of E. laeta lineata (Miskin): offspring with the “sana” phenotype were produced from “laeta” mothers by rearing the offspring at high temperatures and long photoperiods. The “laeta” morphs produced by rearing at lower temperatures and or a shorter photoperiod did not show the full range of underwing colour seen in field-caught “laeia”.Field collections over 15 months in Townsville showed that the “sana” morph predominated from midsummer to mid-autumn, the switch to “laeta” occurring in April-May.
... stages of seven pierid butterfly species with diverse feeding habits from the Australian trop... more ... stages of seven pierid butterfly species with diverse feeding habits from the Australian tropics: the grass yellows, E. hecabe phoebus (Butler), E. smilax (Donovan), E. brigitta australis (Wallace), E. herla (WS Macleay) and E. laeta lineata (Miskin); the lemon migrant, Catopsilia ...
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