2010 Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University and Melbourne will hold the 6th annual forum entitled:
“The Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce” on 12 February 2010.

THE FEBRUARY 2010 CONFERENCE WILL HOST PAPERS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

• Who is Afraid of Business Statistics?
• Student Performance in a Large First Year Economics Subject: Which Variables are Significant?
• Innovative Teaching Practices to Produce Innovative Graduates: A Framework
• Rubric-based assessment and academic performance: The roles of approaches to learning and academic self-efficacy
• The Importance of Prior Knowledge of the Subject Studied in Explaining the Academic Outcomes of First-Year Commerce Students
• Teaching Management Mathematics
• A Causality Test of the Learning Approach and Students’ Perception of Learning Context in Economics Education
• Do Prerequisites Matter? Analysis of Economic Modelling
• Post-graduate student engagement with the subject: revelation of factors influencing student success
• How effective are in-semester tests in predicting final examination results? A case study from Econ 101.

Please note that a parallel forum will be held on Thursday 11th February, 2010 entitled: Measuring the Student Experience. This half-day forum will feature quantitative papers on the Course Experience Questionnaire and institutional teaching evaluation surveys/teaching quality instruments (TQIs).

We invite papers for both forums. Please indicate which forum you wish to present at.

The quantitative forum in commerce disciplines is a joint initiative of the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne. It is now in its fifth year and regularly attracts between 80 and 100 participants from around 38 universities in the Australasian region. Presenters have their accommodation and airfare paid, and accepted papers are published in the refereed Forum proceedings.  

Register for the Forum here

Schedule of dates:
Abstracts due (200-300 words):                       31/07/09
Notification of acceptance of abstracts:            28/08/09
Full papers due:                                                04/12/09
Notification of acceptance of papers:                18/12/09
Deadline for author registration:                       29/01/10
Other participants register by:                          29/01/10

Copies of previous Forum proceedings are available for $30. Cheques should be mailed to :

The University of Melbourne,

C/- Sonia Pugelli
Forum Organiser
TLU, Faculty of Economics & Commerce
6th Floor, 198 Berkeley Street
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Vic 3010
Fax: 61 3 8344 8597

2009 Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University and Melbourne held the 5th annual forum entitled:
“The Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce” on 6 February 2009.

THE FEBRUARY 2009 CONFERENCE HOSTED PAPERS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

• What Explains Student Performances in Introductory Economics Subjects in Australian Universities?: A Case Study
• The Impact of Peer Assisted Study Sessions on Academic Performance
• Do Foreign Students Perform Worse at University than Domestic Students? New Evidence Using Panel Micro-Data from the Australian Technology Network
• Overseas Student Commencements and the Real Exchange Rate
• The Ability of Economic Thinking – the Nature versus Nurture Debate
• Comparison of Local and Offshore Student Experience in Microeconomic Principles
• What Matters Most: Understanding Student Satisfaction with Group Work Assessment
• An Investigation of the Influences on Course of Study Questionnaires Using Student Record Data
• Multiple Measures of the Improvement of Research Skills in Business Ethics and Business Law

Abstracts for all of these presentations are available for download from here (PDF 36Kb)

The forum will be of interest to academics teaching and researching in higher education in commerce disciplines as well as academics in related areas.

See the Teaching and Learning Forum archive page for details of past forums.