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Softening the rock and the hard place : First year education practicum and mentoring at the University of Ballarat

- Smith, Patricia, Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Smith, Patricia , Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at the 6th Pacific Rim, First year in Higher Education Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand : 8th July, 2003
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  • Description: In 2001 the School of Education introduced a new P-10 Education course, and a major aspect in this was the introduction of practicum for First Year students within three weeks of starting their course. Evaluations of this have suggested that this is a move that has been enthusiastically embraced by students and in 2002 we have worked on what has been established to extend and develop the experience for First Years by means of systematic construction of a community of practice to support their development as emergent professionals. To build the sort of community of practice that we envisaged, we turned to Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP), action research models, and reflective practice to inform our work to make the practicum as meaningful as possible to First Years as emergent professionals.
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Using digital image analysis to accurately determine the thousand kernel weight of randomly distributed barley, malt and wheat samples

- Armstrong, Bruce, Weiss, M., Greig, Robert, Aldred, Peter

  • Authors: Armstrong, Bruce , Weiss, M. , Greig, Robert , Aldred, Peter
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Cereals Conference 2001, Sydney : 9th September, 2001
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  • Description: Rapid, accurate and non-subjective grain tests help growers and processors agree on a fair price and ensure that the grain is used for the most appropriate purpose. Common tests include protein, moisture, test (hectolitre) weight, screenings and dockages for pests, disease and foreign matter (Vicgrain, 2000). Each test contributes to a more comprehensive assessment of the grain. The tests assist breeders when selecting promising new cultivars. Plant breeders and maltsters also use the thousand kernel weight (TKW) test, which provides additional information on seed morphology. The test indicates the average kernel weight, with the units expressed as grams per thousand seeds. TKWs are valuable to maltsters and millers as high TKW kernels are plumper, malt and/or mill more evenly and have a higher proportion of endosperm than small kernels. The high TKW grains also produce more attractive malt (Stuart, 1998). TKWs assist breeders in selecting large kernel cultivars and permit growers to calculate their optimum sowing rates (Schwarz and Horsley, 1995).
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A global optimisation approach to classification in medical diagnosis and prognosis

- Bagirov, Adil, Rubinov, Alex, Yearwood, John, Stranieri, Andrew

  • Authors: Bagirov, Adil , Rubinov, Alex , Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
  • Date: 2001
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-34, Maui, Hawaii, USA : 3rd-6th January 2001
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  • Description: In this paper global optimisation-based techniques are studied in order to increase the accuracy of medical diagnosis and prognosis with FNA image data from the Wisconsin Diagnostic and Prognostic Breast Cancer databases. First we discuss the problem of determining the most informative features for the classification of cancerous cases in the databases under consideration. Then we apply a technique based on convex and global optimisation to breast cancer diagnosis. It allows the classification of benign cases and malignant ones and the subsequent diagnosis of patients with very high accuracy. The third application of this technique is a method that calculates centres of clusters to predict when breast cancer is likely to recur in patients for which cancer has been removed. The technique achieves higher accuracy with these databases than reported elsewhere in the literature.
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Building partnerships through discovery - collaborative online teaching and learning

- Counsel, Rose

Nonsmooth optimisation approach to data classification

- Bagirov, Adil, Soukhoroukova, Nadejda

Enhancing university students’ spiritual well-being

- Fisher, John

Quality of life in the workplace : Spirituality, meaning and purpose

- Fisher, John, Sellers, Eileen

  • Authors: Fisher, John , Sellers, Eileen
  • Date: 2000
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Mt Helen : Victoria 1st - 4th December 2000
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  • Description: This paper reports on research which aimed to investigate relationships between meaning and purpose in life and workplace expectations. It provides an overview of the methodology and outcomes of a survey conducted at a regional university. Survey methods included the distribution of two valid and reliable instruments to all employees of that university with data analysed using SPSS procedures. Analysis of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), developed by the principal researcher, and a purpose-designed questionnaire pertaining to meaning and purpose in the workplace, provided interesting findings. Overall, participants classified as administrators, professionals, service workers or labourers reported that they feel good about themselves and their relationships with others and the environment. The relationship with a god-type figure was of lesser importance for the spiritual well-being of the majority of participants. The participants do not expect the workplace to provide a major role in their spiritual well-being. They also reported significantly high levels of feelings of turbulence at work, and trends toward high anxiety and discomfort with autocratic managerial practices characterised by a focus on profits over people. The female staff described the workplace as more friendly, warm and caring than the males. The females also reported greater work satisfaction and were less depressed in doing their job than the males. Interpretation of these results indicates that a somewhat anxious and turbulent work place environment prevails. The personal impact of this unrest appears to be mediated by the support of families and friends of employees. The notion that workplace feelings which are negative (eg., anxiety) emanate from administrative practices, while those which are positive are a function of collegial behaviours, merits further exploration.

Rural social welfare : preparing students to work effectively in rural communities : an Australian experience

- Green, Rosemary

  • Authors: Green, Rosemary
  • Date: 2000
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Rural Communities & Identities in the Global Millennium, International Conference, May 1-5, 2000
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  • Description: The complexity of rural practice in rural and remote communities means that higher order skills are required by rural social workers. In 1991, the University of Ballarat in Victoria (Australia) began teaching a course to prepare students for work in rural social welfare. The course was developed partly to meet industry needs, as local agencies were unable to attract qualified staff. While generic skills, such as counseling and group work, are taught, they are taught with emphasis on particular issues likely to occur in rural settings. Contextual issues include the role of the practitioner as a professional and a community member, confidentiality and privacy, and working within and between complex social networks. Existing courses of social work and welfare address rural practice in a peripheral fashion, whereas rural practice is thoroughly integrated into all elements of this course: course philosophy, curriculum design, teaching strategies, and assessment. The course's philosophical approach emphasizes community development principles of engagement and empowerment within communities. A brief framework of the course and evaluations completed by staff and students are provided. (Contains 15 references.) (TD)
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Seeing the wood from the trees

- Borys, David

Developing a spiritual health and life-orientation measure for secondary school students

- Fisher, John

  • Authors: Fisher, John
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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  • Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.

Online Farm Trials (OFT) – the past, present and future

- Robinson, Nathan, Dahlhaus, Peter, Feely, Paul, Light, Kate, MacLeod, Andrew

  • Authors: Robinson, Nathan , Dahlhaus, Peter , Feely, Paul , Light, Kate , MacLeod, Andrew
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Proceedings of the 19th Australian Society of Agronomy Conference,25-29 August 2019, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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  • Description: Online Farm Trials (OFT) (www.farmtrials.com.au) is a free web-based resource and trial discovery system that contains more than 7,100 trials from 76 different organisations from across Australia. Since its inception in 2013, OFT has developed via a collaborative approach with grower groups, research organisations, agricultural experts and grains industry organisations. This ensures the outcomes are highly relevant, practical and beneficial for growers. Users can view, analyse and export grains research data as well as compare trials based upon historical, geographic and crop-specific search filters. Current developments include seasonally relevant collections of trials to highlight priority topics and aid on-farm decision making. To meet the future needs of industry stakeholders, system developments are planned to include expanded trial research information access, foster innovation through publishing and promoting active trials and enhance trial data standards and quality. **Please note that there are multiple Federation University authors for this article, including the name of the first 5 and also including “Rob Milne, Julie Parker, Helen Thompson, Judi Walters and Ben Wills" is provided in this record**