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Projects
Our researchers aim to enhance the quality of teaching learning practices through various projects and programs encouraging active involvement with the community and fellow academics. Below is a list of our current projects from across the school and related research centres.
Centre for Higher Education Learning and Teaching Research
- Employability and transfer of non technical skills across different contexts
- Engaging students in affect: an evaluation of learning through simulation and active recall in teacher education lectures
- First year experience
- Internationalising the curriculum
- Sense of community/sense of belonging
Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies
- Digitising portfolios for assessment
- Interactive whiteboards in science teaching
- Learning with the Nintendo DS
- Mount Lawley SHS TEE scores review
- Nanotechnology online game
- One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Organisation
- Teaching teachers for the future
Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research
- Advanced technologies for leading teaching and education practice
- An immersive approach to developing reflective practice in teacher learning using 3-dimensional video
- Artworks in residence: Young children’s responses to adult created visual artworks as viewed first-hand within the classroom context
- Developing preservice teachers’ understanding of positive classroom environments through the use of immersive video
- Developing social skills through music: The impact of general classroom music in a lower socio-economic area primary (elementary) school
- Exploring quality primary education in different cultures: A cross national study of teaching and learning in primary science classrooms (Equalprime)
- Identifying effective interactions, including language and visual representations, that develop number sense in primary classroom
- Learning and teaching science in an online world
- Optimisation of STEM education support in Western Australian schools
- Professional development program to embed inclusive and explicit teaching practices in higher education first year units
- Semiotic resources in the kindergarten mathematics classroom
- The impact of music looping technologies upon pre-service generalist teachers’ self-efficacy to teach music in primary schools after pre-service training and in school practicum situations
- The role of embodied representations in the construction of meaning in the primary science classroom
- TPACK iPad project in schools (TIPS)
- TPACK iPad project in schools: Phase 2 professional growth (TIPS-2) The effectiveness of self-tracking video technology and professional learning networks to promote changes in teachers’ practice to comply with National Standards for ICT Integration
- Using video to support the training of student teachers
Fogarty Learning Centre
- Focused intervention in early literacy development - Association of Independent Schools in Western Australia
- Improving transitions to teaching through reciprocal mentoring residencies
- Principals as literacy leaders - Association of Independent Schools in Western Australia
- Principals as literacy leaders - Australian Primary Principals Association
- Principals as literacy leaders - South Australia Department of Education and Children’s Services - 1
- Principals as literacy leaders - South Australia Department of Education and Children’s Services - 2
- Targeting resources in primary schools
- The responsive school support study
- Unlocking phonemic awareness: A pilot study of an intervention to improve an essential, foundational literacy skill among pre service teachers