Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Automated Essay Scoring in Australian Schools: Collective Policymaking - Policy Brief
Published 2022-11-29This policy brief outlines critical issues associated with policy and the use of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) technology in the Australian education system. The brief outlines recommends multi-scalar policy development ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Good teachers and counter conduct
Published 2022Research on policy enactment has explored tensions created by accountability approaches associated with new forms of management under neoliberalism. These approaches generate particular discursive constructs of the ‘good ...Open AccessArticle -
Schema abstraction with productive failure and analogical comparison: Learning designs for far across domain transfer
Published 2020Although there has been considerable research into knowledge transfer for over a century, there remains a need for specific, validated techniques for teaching for transfer. This article reports on classroom-based research ...Open AccessArticle -
Designs for learning about climate change as a complex system
Published 2017This paper reports on a study in which students used agent-based computer models to learn about complex systems ideas of relevance to understanding climate change. The experimental condition used a Productive Failure (PF) ...Open AccessPreprint -
Computational scientific inquiry with virtual worlds and agent-based models: new ways of doing science to learn science
Published 2015In this paper, we propose computational scientific inquiry (CSI) as an innovative model for learning important scientific knowledge and new practices for “doing” science. This approach involves the use of a “game-like” ...Open AccessPreprint