Grants

Improving learning outcome for First Year Experience students: Can teaching and learning interventions improve student performances in written tasks?

Dipu Sebastian

$4657.50

The objective of this study is to improve student learning outcomes in the First Year Experience Program by implementing strategies and interventions which are based on sound theoretical frameworks.  It is also envisaged the results of the study will be used to develop recommendations for enhancing the business curriculum.

The effectiveness of alternative tutorial preparation assessment methods

Gerry Gallery, Janet Mack, and John Sweeting

$4869.00

The objective of this study is to empirically examine the effectiveness of alternative methods of assessing students’ preparedness for tutorials in the School of Accountancy that currently includes: in-class ‘show and mark’ of assignment attempt; ‘collection and grade’ of assignment attempt and an in-class quiz.  This project will principally involve a survey of students in relation to tutorial preparation assessment which will assist in the development of enhanced learning outcomes.

Embedding a ‘critical thinking’ process throughout the learning and teaching of Management and Organisation theory (MGB222)

Erica French and Noel Tracey

$4753.10

This project aims to develop an integrated approach to teaching management discipline knowledge using a critical thinking framework throughout the lecture/tutorial delivery and a student project book within the second year of MGB222. The student project book will form part of the unit’s assessment.

Exploring the tensions between the use of group work within postgraduate business courses and the individual aspirations of students

Lyndal Drennan

$4914.86

This project aims to investigate the extant expectations of lecturers and students for group work, to ascertain to what extent they might be accommodated within existing assessment regimes, or conversely, if expectations need to be managed and practice altered.

Embedding information literacy into a postgraduate business unit via a collaborative framework

Edwina Luck and Maria Thompson

$4818.60

This project will reconceptualise the postgraduate unit AMN400 as a blended curriculum which develops information literacy capacity within the context of the discipline of consumer behaviour.

Real-world learning: Enriching the learning experience for current and potential QUT advertising students

Gayle Kerr

$4780

This project aims to strengthen QUT’s real-world positioning by enriching the learning environment of two very different student cohorts through partnerships with industry and the integration of learning technology.  In doing so, it seeks to reinforce our reputation for quality teaching in the minds of current and potential students.

Embedding information literacy through an integrated virtual case study

Chrys Gunasekera and Sue Collins

$4928

The project will develop a virtual case study in operations management within the MGB210 units that integrates the assessment of core discipline concepts and principles, and information literacy using a platform of secondary date sources and specific inputs from the lecturer, a Business Faculty Liaison Librarian, senior industry representatives and the TALSS unit.

BGSB Toastmasters Club

Caroline Hatcher

$4480

The objective of this project is to create a Toastmasters Club that provides QUT Faculty of Business postgraduate students and alumni the opportunity to develop communication, presentation and leadership skills.

Development of a Student Workbook for BSB122

Tommy Tang

$5024.11

This project aims to develop a detailed analysis of student’s written response to an essay question in the 1998 Economics 1 final examination.  A phenomenographical method will be used to analyse the data.

Creating and evaluating a support scheme for developing students’ literature review

Kerrie Unsworth

$3624.38

This project aims to develop a traditional workbook-type resource to be used as a guide for students in writing literature reviews which has often been a struggle for some students with the concepts and methods involved.  It will develop and evaluate a support scheme package incorporating peer feedback, expert help, and workbook resources to provide the best learning outcomes from student literature reviews.

The first year university campus learning experience: student expectations and social needs

Dipu Sebastian and Glen Murphy

$4657.50

The aim of the first year experience (FYE) program is to support students in their learning by giving them additional assistance to ensure a successful transition into the university environment.    To make this initiative a success the project will conduct research on expectations of students in the FYE program.

Maths Refresher Classes

Adam Clements

$2055.20

This project will assist with fulfilling the University and Faculty Learning and Teaching strategies associated with the continued improvement of OLT resources and will be an important tool in seeking further university funding for future OLT developments.  The project will aim to identify where OLT resources could be improved within units and areas which will aid student learning outcomes for the future.

Mapping of Faculty of Business Online Learning and Teaching sites to the University Framework for Learning Design

Sherrena Buckby

$3722.55

This project will assist with fulfilling the University and Faculty Learning and Teaching strategies associated with the continued improvement of OLT resources and will be an important tool in seeking further university funding for future OLT developments.  The project will aim to identify where OLT resources could be improved within units and areas and this will aid student learning outcomes for the future.

The integration of financial modelling and finance theory in the unit EFB307 Finance 2

Dr Michael Drew

$4000

The project is intended to provide finance students (and associated majors) with the opportunity to apply the central tenets of finance theory using Microsoft Excel. This project was motivated by the need for students to have sufficient opportunities to apply finance theory to practical problems.  Excel provides a useful tool to operationalise such theories and test important ideas.

Assessment of experiential learning: the MIB Internship

Gary Chittick, Tom Cronk, and Rob O’Donovan

$5676

This project is an initial step in the evaluation of the internship program.  Within the framework of the existing delivery structure and learning objectives it will assess whether or note the current means of collecting the evidence to demonstrate the accomplishment of the learning objectives.

A comprehensive tutor training program

Neal Knight-Turvey

$4931.57

The aim of the project is to develop and provide a comprehensive Tutor Training Program in the School of Management with the goal of implementing this program within the Faculty.  The program aims to develop the pedagogical skills and confidence in new tutors and will enhance undergraduate students’ learning and demonstrates the School and Faculty’s commitment to developing quality teaching at all levels.

The virtual consultancy – providing an authentic learning and assessment environment for the capstone unit in the public relations major

Elizabeth Macpherson, Robina Xavier, and Ingrid Larkin

$5590.24

This project involves developing a fully functioning online consultancy for students in the public relations major to reflect consultancy practice in industry.  The goal of this project is to significantly increase the site functionality for 2005.

The sound of data: using multimedia enforce key learning concepts in data analysis

Rodney Wolff

$4738.30

The project aims to deliver ‘talking solutions’ for substantial components of tutorial work in BSB122 and EFB101.

Improved reporting of multiple-choice exam results

Ralf Becker

$3193.12

The purpose of this project is to provide an automated improved feedback to students, which points each individual student to the areas of content, in which they make mistakes. 

A model for the use of criterion referenced assessment (CRA) in the context of developing graduate capabilities in the HR major

Lisa Bradley, Clare Gardiner and Amanda Gudmundsson

$4597.68

The aim of the project is to develop a model of CRA within the HR major.  The anticipated outcomes of the project include; a literature review of CRA; the development of a model for the implementation of CRA in the HR major; the development of a framework for application of CRA in the broader Faculty teaching, learning and assessment process; a report of the results of using the developed model to introduce CRA within the extended HR major unit.

An inventory of assessment regimes in undergraduate units

Tim Robinson

$4470.36

This proposal seeks to enable the compilation of an inventory of the assessment used in all undergraduate units offered by the Faculty of Business.  At a later stage, the inventory could be extended to include all coursework postgraduate programs.

From passive learning to critical and creative thinking: the journey of a group of business students in Hong Kong

Jennifer Radbourne

$4319.68

This project investigates the learning styles, learning environment and learning outcomes of Chinese students in Hong Kong studying an Australian university course in their own country.

Implementation of Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) in the Public Relations major

Robina Xavier

$1610

This project aims to ensure the methods used to introduce CRA to the Public Relations major are tested and discussed as widely as possible.  A research project tracking the implementation has been designed for this purpose and follows the design of O’Donovan, Price and Rust which tracked CRA implementation at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

Is the use of computer-mediated communication for developing critical thinking an effective method to facilitate the discursive multi-cultural classroom?

Kate Whitely-de Graaf and Meredith Godat

$959

Paper missing – have asked her to email

Introduction and evaluation of Australian case studies to Management Research Methods (MGB220) teaching program

Naomi Maierhofer

$4972.80

The aim of the project is to develop case examples of the research process and practical demonstrations of statistical analysis.  In addition an evaluation process will be conducted with students throughout the course of the teaching semester to evaluate the changes.

Maths Refresher Classes

Ralf Becker

$2269.20

This project will assist with fulfilling the University and Faculty Learning and Teaching strategies associated with the continued improvement of OLT resources and will be an important tool in seeking further university funding for future OLT developments.  The project will aim to identify where OLT resources could be improved within units and areas which will aid student learning outcomes for the future.

The creative responsibility of personal values: the integration of advertising, marketing and public relations in AMB231 Marketing Communications Regulation and Ethics

Elizabeth Cranley

$1990

The aim of the project is to explore the connection between one’s personal ethical stance and one’s ability to respond creatively to professional demands that compromise the ethic.

Investigating methods for improving the teaching of quantitative aspects in introductory undergraduate level operations management units

Prakash Singh and Peter Mansour

$4800

The aim of the project is to achieve an improvement in the level of the quantitative content of MGB210 and develop knowledge of teaching related ‘best practice’ in the area of study.  It also aims to assess if students will be able to cope with more advanced quantitative tools and techniques and determine the best ways in which more advanced quantitative tools and techniques can be included.

The use of an audience response system to enhance student learning

Jeremy Williams, Joanne Jacobs and Carol Dalglish

$4972

The main aims of the project are to investigate the efficacy of an audience response system in the enhancement of student learning outcomes of the BGSB and to publish a jointly authored paper in a leading higher educational journal.

Learning that lasts – immersing advanced undergraduate business students in high-level generic skills through a virtual workplace experience such that the learning provides effective transition from university to employment and beyond (a pilot study)

Jennifer Radbourne, Kerry Brown, Meredith Godat, Terry Eular, Prakash Singh, Sam Buccolo, Andrew Peterson, Mark Barry, and Bernadette Savage

$7995

This project involves students in the second and third year of their undergraduate business degree in the disciplines of management and accountancy being exposed to real time decision-making, problem-solving, creative thinking and risk-taking in virtual corporations set up online for use in the classroom.

The integration of business law and business ethics in the revised faculty core unit of BSB111: Business Law and Ethics

Elizabeth Cranley

$5120

The aim of this project was to develop cases that have both legal and ethical aspects in order to familiarise students with the revised course outline  for BSB111 which integrated both disciplines.

On-line teaching strategies to support second language learners with the development of content learning readiness

Caroline Hatcher

$3657

The objective of this project is to explore ways to enhance learning by providing additional content support prior to and during units.  International students and those with second language difficulties can support their own learning in an intensive learning environment that does not require fact-to-face teaching and additional staff contact.

Development of advertising case material

Cheryl Moran and Gayle Kerr

$2429

The teaching of advertising as a discipline is dependent on the study of cases of both effective and not so effective campaigns.  The use of these cases may be simply as examples, or may involve the more detailed analysis of how to improve on a situation.  This grant would facilitate the collection of six contemporary cases of advertising campaigns and the use of a wide range of the media options available.

Part A: Integrating study tours into Faculty Course Program Design

Part B: Development and translation of unit outlines at Suzhou University

Rob McEllister

$3100

The aim of the project was to liaise with those companies who host the QUT study tour in order to increase the learning outcomes for the tour participants.  It includes a summary of the discussions with the various firms involved in hosting the tour.

Symposium for entrepreneurship educations (SEE) at Babson College Price-Babson@University of California, Berkeley, January 8-11, 2003

Michael Christie

$3500

Price-Babson conducts the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educations (SEE_ for the professional development of academic educators in entrepreneurship.  The Price-Babson program provides the opportunity for the professional development in entrepreneurship of an academic and a senior university administrator.  This grant assisted Michael Christie to attend the symposium.

Enhancing Pedagogy through the use of laptops in the classroom

Jeremy Williams

$5000

The main aims of the project are to investigate the current use of laptops in the classroom at leading business schools around the world and evaluate the outcomes of trials using laptops in the classroom within the BGSB’s MBA program.

The use of flexible delivery to deliver Carseldine programs

Andrew Paltridge, Glenda Maconachie, Kate Hutchings, and Amanda Gudmundsson

$4000

This project will investigate the suitability of alternative delivery programs in Management and Human Resource Management at the Carseldine campus to solve the problems identified for students; the viability of implementing such programs; and make recommendations on preferred approaches to delivery of these majors.

Developing a peer review process for the Faculty of Business

Andrew Paltridge and Tommy Tang

$2500

The intention of this project is to investigate the need for, and viability of, a peer review process within the Faculty of Business and if possible develop such an instrument which would allow us to meet the needs identified and to achieve similar outcomes to those identified at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington USA.

Management Research Methods (MGB220) Computer Laboratory Tutorial Program

Naomi Maierhofer

$2471.80

The aim of this project is to introduce a new method of teaching research methods and data analysis to MGB220 students.  In the past, tutorials have been classroom based.  The new tutorial program is designed to be conducted in a computer laboratory.

Pilot study of business graduates (alumni) application of generic skills

Jennifer Radbourne

$1666.00

This project contributes to enhancing the teaching and learning environment in the Faculty of Business by providing outcome evidence for curriculum and instructional design.  It employees scholarship to improve teaching practices and engages the Faculty of Business in further work in generic skills one of the university’s teaching and learning targets.

Assoc Prof Jennifer Radbourne

“Assessment of generic attributes in business studies through a case study learning methodology”

This project builds on existing data and teaching and learning projects in this University (Faculties of built and Environment and Engineering and Law) and other ATN universities to provide a model for teaching and assessing generic skills and competencies such that students of business are able to articulate these for satisfying employment and lifelong learning experiences.

Dr Rumintha Wickramasekera
Dipu Sebastian

Exploration of experiential learning and teaching in international business: The use of audio-visual case studies

The benefit of experiential learning is widely accepted.  Experiential learning is particularly useful in teaching international business, as students can be provided a variety of international business settings to give them an appreciation for grappling with internationalisation problems (an authentic learning experience) and thus better prepare them for the dynamic international workplace.

This project aims to achieve two outcomes:

1. Developing two audio visual case studies and
2. Embedding the cases within the curriculum to enhance student engagement with learning.

Assoc Prof Caroline Hatcher, Ms Ros Kent, Ms Joanne Jacobs
and Ms Meredith Godat

On-line pre-learning and support strategies for international students who experience English language and Australian contextual difficulties in learning subject-specific concepts

Artemis Chang

Learning How to Learn: developing reflective skills in student group assessment

Trevor Stanley

Creating a workplace learning experience program for Accountancy students

A School of Accountancy aim is for graduates to possess skills and knowledge which allow them to achieve excellence in professional accounting practice and lifelong learning.  The school wants to prepare students for the business world by focusing on generic skills/capabilities and providing “real” contact with business.