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Day 1 Thursday 18 November 2010

Time Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D
08:00 Registration opens
09:00 Conference Opening: Professor Shirley Alexander – DVC Teaching Learning and Equity
Acknowledgement of Country
Keynote: Assessing the 21st-century Graduate: Seven Challenges
Professor Dai Hounsell
10:45 Morning Tea
11:15 Parallel Session One - Papers and Workshops
Facilitating the learning of clinical examination skills through online assessment
P.Hay, C. Engstrom, S. Dickens, A. Green, P. Friis 		Assessing students in Second Life with scripted chat-bots
G. Crisp, S. Joarder, M. Hillier 		Designing progressive assessment tasks that scaffold and stage student learning
Workshop 60mins
C. Hughes 		Unleashing the imagination in learning, teaching and assessment
Workshop 90mins
T. Swirski
11:45 Developing students' capacity for innovation, creativity and critical thinking through contemporary forms of assessment: A case study in progress
S. Kearney, T. Perkins 		The final examination: a squandered opportunity for big-picture feedback to students?
G. Fyfe
12:15 The dilemma of engagement and ownership in a portfolio for sustainability
E. Jones 		Education quality and exam hurdles: a flawed relationship
D. Cahill, P. Myers, L. Robinson 		Assessing for futures - Can professionally relevant learning provide an environment to support learning beyond graduation?
R. Lawson, E. Fallshaw, M. Zanko, T. Taylor, T. Papadopoulos
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Parallel Session Two - Papers and Workshops
Improving the Standard and Consistency of Multi-Tutor Grading in large Classes
K. Willey, A. Gardner 		Attaining sustainable assessment practice in Transnational Education by achieving equivalence and comparability
T. Palaskas, S. Gopal, J. Richardson, R. Smith 		Adopting new practice: Using feedback to develop a university-wide moderation process that closes the assessment loop
N. Brown 		 
14:15 Towards sustainable marking practices and improved quality of feedback in short answer assessments
J. Yorke, W. Gibson, H. Wilkinson 		The eight minute milestone - from assessment to learning in 500 seconds
J. Price 		Sustainable assessment change: Where are the program leaders starting from?
K. Readman, W. Allen, D. Heck 		Assessing architectural design activities of diverse learners
P. Crowther
14:45 Building team capacity:Sustaining quality in assessment and moderation practices in a fully online unit
S. Kuzich, R. Groves, S. O'Hare, L. Pelliccione 		A demonstration of SPARK and ReView - two technologies for supporting sustainable assessment
S. Housego 		Supporting student learning throughout a three year program: Using ePortfolio technology and assessment for sustainable learning
A. Wyllie 		The challenges of nurturing and sustaining curriculum innovation: One university's experience in implementing team-based learning
G. Pretto, C. Hall-van Elsen
15:15 Afternoon Tea
15:45 Panel Session:
Academic standards in the disciplines: Challenges and possibilities for assessment - ALTC Discipline Scholars
17:00 Day 1 Sessions Close
18:00 Drinks, Canapes and Poster Gallery
Posters
19:00 Conference Dinner
22:00 Dinner venue closes

Day 2 Friday 19 November 2010

Time Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D
08:30 Day registration opens
09:00 Keynote: Assessment in First-Year: Staff and Student Perceptions of Appropriate and Effective Practice
Professor Keithia Wilson and Associate Professor Alf Lizzio
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 Parallel Session Three - Papers and Workshops
Feedback on Feedback: Student and academic perceptions, expectations and practices within an undergraduate pharmacy course
N. Di Costa 		Institutional policies on assessing group work: Cautions, caveats and constraints
P. Donnan 		Educating for sustainability in business: Challenges in designing assessment in work-integrated learning
Workshop 60 mins
L. Treleaven, A. Masters, P. Seltisikas, J. Oakeshott, J. Ormiston, N. Smith, S. Fletcher 		Students’ use of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education: Good practice in assessment and academic integrity - What does it take?
Workshop 90mins
M. Hamilton, J. Richardson
11:30 An assessment regime for geographical information systems to promote deeper learning among students of diverse disciplines
S. Srivastava 		By Degrees: The introduction of national benchmarking statements into a university department
C. Hughes, A. Fairbairn, A. Bennison
12:00 Leaping over the perceptual threshold barrier in traditional accounting courses: Embracing sustainable assessment and learning design
N. McGuigan, T. Kern 		SOS – a tool to support assessment practice across degree courses
R. Lawson, C. Bajada, J. Lee 		Words within worlds: theorising simulation, role play, and genre in university assessment
T. Moore, A. Johnson
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Parallel Session Four - Papers and Workshops
Optimising automated feedback systems to motivate students
P.Mansfield, D. Boase-Jelinek 		From theory to practice: Implementing innovative and authentic assessment tasks within pre-service teacher education courses
M. Gallagher, T. Shellshear 		How do you know I've changed?: Assessing changes in thinking
Workshop 60mins
C. Cottman 		Assessing Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Videos
Workshop 60mins
W. Rifkin, N. Longnecker, J. Leach, L. Davis
14:00 Changing practice, changing attitudes: Using an integrated assessment approach to make intercultural teams work
G. Donnar, G. Pretto 		Assessment for learning and accountability: An integrated approach
Shukri Sanber
14:30 Keynote: Sustainable Assessment for Long-term Learning
Professor David Boud
15:45 Conference Close
16:00 Day Two Ends with Afternoon Tea