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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.

Papers on the following topics were presented:

• Successful Outcomes for Students at Risk
• What can be Done to Improve Student Success in First Year Statistics?
• Improving Student Skills in Essay Writing and Oral Presentations
• Developing Collaboration Skills in First Year Undergraduate Business Students
• Teaching Survey Evaluations as a Performance Evaluation Tool: How Much of a Good Teaching Score is beyond a Lecturer’s Control
• It’s Not as Bad as they Thought: Student Preferences for Teaching Format across Subjects and over Time
• HSC Mathematics Results and Tertiary Success in Quantitative Units: An Australian Experience
• Differential Item Functioning between Domestic and International Students in an Introductory Finance Unit: A Bayesian Analysis
• Does Regular Online Testing Enhance Student Learning?: Evidence from a Large First-Year Quantitative Methods Course
• The Role of Error Matrices in Faciliating Constructive Alignment in Online Multiple Choice Tests: The CSU Experience
• FinanceNow!: An Empirical Analysis of the Usage Impact of Real-Time Information in Finance Education

2007 Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum

The third annual Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum was held in February 2007. Around 70 people attended from more than 24 institutions in the Australasian region.

Papers on the following topics were presented:

• Deterministic Demographic Characteristics in Tertiary Education
• An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Peer-Assisted Study Sessions in a First Year Econometrics Unit
• Alternative Learning Methods in a Business Statistics Course
• An Exploration of the Relationship between the Quality of Teaching Survey and the CEQ
• Educational Implications of the Changing Role of Accountants
• Student Perceptions towards the Role of Economics in Natural Resource Management
• The experience of Microeconomics students at Victoria University
• Exploring Flexible Learning Preferences for Business and Commerce Students using a Market Segmentations Approach.

2006 Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum

In February 2006, The Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne held a workshop: Empirical Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce. More than 100 academics from Australia and overseas attended.

Papers on the following topics were presented:

• The Characteristics of 'Gap-Year' Students and their Tertiary Academic Outcomes
• Tutorial Attendance and Grade Achievement
• A Comparison between International and Australian Students In Commerce: Are There Implications for Teaching?
• Going Flexible!  The Corporate Governance Initiative: The Case of Organisational Risk Management
• The Evolution of WebCT in the School of Economics and Commerce at the University of Western Australia
• Virtual Discussions in Online Accounting Courses: Examining the Relationship between Participation and Learning
• Flexible Teaching and Learning: The Technology Hybrid
• The Application of the Instruments of Strategic Course Analysis to the Evaluation of Business Programs in Austtralian Higher Education
• Do students perceptions matter?  A study of the effect of student perceptions of management accounting on student performance
• Systemic Influences on Teaching Evolutions:  The Case for Caution

Read a full report (PDF, 23Kb) on the 2006 Forum by Dr Martin Davies.

2005 Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Business, Economics and Commerce Forum

Papers on the following topics were presented:

• Modelling students at risk
• Student Attendance and University Performance
• Employer requirements and undergraduate economics programs
• Students’ orientation to learning, learning outcomes and academic performance
• Computer-assisted learning packages and learning outcomes in Accounting
• Interactive online learning systems in Accounting
• Business students’ preferences for modes of delivery
• Flexible Learning and Academic Performance
• Multimedia and developing graduate skills in Management
• Research-Led Teaching