Achieving success in industrial training
- Authors: Martin, Peter
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, ICOTS-7, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil : 2nd-7th July 2006
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- Description: The teaching of statistical techniques to people in industry, as part of quality control or process improvement programs, can be a rewarding but somewhat daunting process for academics. Whilst the spin-offs for undergraduate teaching are numerous, and will be explored in a future paper, the biggest gains include the co-operation between the specific industry and the academic institution concerned. This paper explores some of the requirements and conditions that go towards enhancing successful industrial consultancies involving statistically based training programs provided by academics.
- Description: 2003001820
Behavioural economic models of household electricity decision making: An application to energy efficiency program evaluation
- Authors: Lynch, David , Martin, Peter
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2013 International Energy Program Evaulation Conference: Getting it done! Evaluation today p. 1-12
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Effect of a nurse back injury prevention intervention on the rate of injury compensation claims
- Authors: Martin, Peter , Harvey, Jack , Culvenor, John , Payne, Warren
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Safety Research Vol. 40, no. 1 (2009), p. 13-19
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- Description: Problem: This study evaluated the effect of introducing a No Lifting policy on back injuries to nurses, across an entire health care system. Methods: Methods included: analysis of the data for all public health agencies in the Australian state of Victoria; compensation data from the Victorian Workcover Authority; data about workforce and program implementation from a retrospective survey of agencies; longitudinal analysis of standardized workers compensation claim rates for back injuries before, during and after the intervention. Results: A statistically significant decline in back injury claim rates during implementation contrasted with no statistically significant trends within the periods before and after the intervention. A statistically significant reduction occurred in mean quarterly standard back injury claim incidence rates per 1,000 equivalent fulltime nursing staff (EFTNS), representing a 24% reduction in standard back injury claims/1000 EFTNS. Discussion: Ergonomics principles encourage changing the work environment to suit the worker. This approach delivered a significant improvement in the immediate term. Impact of industry: The substantial decline in back injury rates signifies a major improvement in the safety of a critical aspect of the work environment for nurses. © 2009 National Safety Council and Elsevier Ltd.
Enhancing effective communication of statistical analysis to non-statistical audiences
- Authors: Martin, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at International Association for Statistics Education, Proceedings of the IASE/ISI-Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics, Sydney : 4th - 5th April, 2005
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- Description: This paper explores the potential of enhancing effective communication of information arising from statistical analyses to a non-statistical audience using various graphical forms. In this regard we can learn a lot from the business world where often senior management don’t have the time to wade through complex summary tables of statistical analyses. It is far more efficient to use good graphic displays in order to communicate the essential ideas. Modern computer software packages offer a goldmine of opportunities to present statistical information to non-statistical audiences. As communicators we need to provide appropriate experiences within the structure of our teaching and/or consulting programs. The importance of context in understanding graphical output is discussed as well as examples of a few of the many and various graphical options available in several commonly used software packages.
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Evaluation of an energy efficiency program in a regional context
- Authors: Martin, Peter , Lynch, David , Ali-Alkadiri, Mohammad , Lowe, Julian
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2011 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference: Impact through evaluation Boston, Massachusetts 16th-18th August, 2011
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- Description: The Central Victoria Solar City (CVSC) research trial is part of the Australian Government’s $94 million Solar Cities program. Managed by renewable energy company, Sustainable Regional Australia (SRA), the program encourages residents to test energy efficiency technologies and services designed to reduce energy use and reliance on non-renewable energy sources. The trial involves collecting data from over 3,500 households (including a control group of 750) across central Victoria and recording changes to their energy consumption until 30 June 2013. CVSC is in its early stages of implementation, with about one third of participants recruited. In energy program evaluations,much of the data is hierarchical in nature (e.g. household energy readings over time). An issue with such data is that conventional statistical methods (e.g. OLS or Logistic regression) assumeindependency between observations, which is likely to be violated by longitudinal data. Techniques to address this problem have been a major area of research during the past 10 years. Such developments have led to analytical tools (e.g. Linear Mixed Models), which allow for modeling of dependencies between measures. Early analysis has confirmed the hierarchical nature of the data, with 76% of the variance in pre-program energy consumption occurring between (rather than within) households. A preliminary baseline model based on regional, climatic and household characteristics explains 40% of variation in household electricity consumption. Initial findings suggest that household electricity consumption is most strongly influenced by regional factors (e.g. climate, reticulated gas availability), number of occupants, house size and income.
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How energy efficiency programs influence energy use: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
- Authors: Lynch, David , Martin, Peter
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: European Council for an an energy efficient economy 2013 (eceee) summer study: Rethink, Renew, Restart p. 2037-2048
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Local environmental knowledge of school students
- Authors: Martin, Peter
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Experiencing the outdoors- Enhancing strategies for wellbeing p. 193-206
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- Description: Place, it is acknowledged by many, is a social construction, imbued with meaning and located in both time and space by the people that interact with that space (Vanclay, 2008, p. 17). Our understanding of this and how people create a meaningful world and understand their place has been a central theme in geography typified by the foundational work of Yi-Fu Tuan (1974, 1977) and Edward Relph (1976). © 2015 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved.
Making statistics relevant for undergraduate nurses
- Authors: Martin, Peter , Pierce, Robyn , Giri, Jason
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Cape Town, South Africa 7th - 12th July, 2002
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- Description: In this paper we will explore the challenge of making statistics more meaningful to future nurses. In the fast moving undergraduate student world the expectations we place upon nursing students are considerable. Typically they experience high class-contact hours in addition to their clinical placements. Compounding the problem, undergraduate nursing students have diverse mathematical backgrounds and seldom perceive statistics as being relevant for them. Given these constraints we have adopted the relatively modest aim of producing informed and discriminating consumers of statistics and research, rather than skilled statistical practitioners or researchers. With a focus on computer output rather than by-hand calculations, we have made use of strategic examples, appropriate journal articles and an historical hypothetical. This approach has both relieved the anxiety and distraction associated with calculations and increased students’ engagement in the learning process.
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Physical Education & Outdoor Education: complementary but discrete disciplines
- Authors: Martin, Peter , McCullagh, John
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education Vol. 2, no. 1 (2011), p. 67-78
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- Description: The Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) includes Outdoor Education (OE) as a component of Physical Education (PE). Yet Outdoor Education is clearly thought of by many as a discrete discipline separate from Physical Education. Outdoor Education has a body of knowledge that differs from that of Physical Education. This in turn has mandated that OE teachers be trained differently to PE teachers. Some teacher registration boards acknowledge this. Most importantly, the socio-cultural imperatives that are shaping the contributions of Physical Education in schools differ from those of Outdoor Education. In this paper we examine the differences between Outdoor Education and Physical Education. We argue that an inclusion of Outdoor Education as a component of Physical Education is misleading and demonstrates a lack of contemporary understanding of the distinctive contributions made by these two separate disciplines to education. In light of Physical Education's inclusion in the Australian National Curriculum, clarity of the respective contributions of PE and OE is even more compelling. Clarifying the respective roles of PE and OE will ultimately benefit curriculum planners, teachers, students and the wider community.
The role and place of outdoor education in the Australian National Curriculum
- Authors: Gray, Tonia , Martin, Peter
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Outdoor Education Vol. 16, no. 1 (2012), p. 39-50
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- Description: As Australia heads into a new era of implementing a National Curriculum, the place of Outdoor Education in Australianschools is under question. In the initial drafts of the National Curriculum, Outdoor Education has been marginalised. Theauthors propose that Outdoor Education should maintain a strong role, especially as processes of experiential learning are applied across the curriculum. Moreover, Outdoor Education oers distinctive content and learning experiences that would be lost in the current draft framework. This paper considers the role and place of Outdoor Education in the NationalCurriculum and frames possible considerations, challenges and risks
Turfgrass education, research and information in Australia : History, development and implications
- Authors: Loch, Donald , Aldous, David , McMaugh, Peter , Colmer, T. , Martin, Peter , Ford, Phillip , Neylan, J. , Burrup, David , Dempsey, F
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1122: XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes (IHC2014): III International Conference on Turfgrass Management and Science for Sports Fields; Brisbane, Australia; 17th-22nd August; published in Acta Horticulturae Vol. 1122, p. 9-17
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- Description: The modern Australian turfgrass industry developed from the period between World Wars I and II, in response to increasing urbanisation and construction of more sophisticated, higher quality sporting facilities. Its development intensified from the 1960s onwards with selection of the first widely used local varieties and import of new US-bred greens hybrids. This timetable, together with its underlying drivers, is similar to that in other developed countries in North America, Europe and southern Africa. However, supporting turfgrass education and research have developed very differently in Australia. Vocational greenkeeper training started in the 1940s with instructors from the NSW agriculture department, but moved into the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system in the 1950s and has developed from there in all states. University-based training at post-graduate, and now undergraduate, level has become more available in the past 20-30 years, but is still a relatively small component within the overall tertiary education sector for agriculture and environmental science. In Australia, food-and fibre-based industries have been backed by strong, stable government research for over 100 years, in contrast to turfgrass (and lifestyle horticulture generally) where formal research support from state government departments has been limited, sporadic and lacked continuity. University research initiated in the past 20-30 years remains limited but is increasing in response to industry funding. Research into specific turfgrass problems has also been conducted over the past 50-80 years by private industry-funded providers, which have come and gone at regular intervals. Australia lacks a numerically strong nucleus of technically competent scientists and educators to provide independent advice to the turfgrass industry. The implications of this in terms of the quality of information accessed by practitioners are explored.