Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): 2015 STARS Conference Special Issue

STARS Conference Melbourne 2015

Published: 2015-08-21

Editorial

Volume 6, Issue 2

Tracy Creagh, John Clarke, Karen Nelson

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Articles

"Are we there yet?": Making sense of transition in higher education

Jeannette Stirling, Celeste Rossetto

9-20
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Ups and downs in mood and energy: Associations with academic outcomes in higher education

Ben Bullock

21-31
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Navigating VET to university: Students’ perceptions of their transition to university study

Tracy Barber, Clare Netherton, Alicia Bettles, Amanda Moors-Mailei

33-41
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Identity theory as a theoretical framework to understand attrition for university students in transition

Robert Whannell, Patricia Whannell

43-52
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Talking about the elephant in the room: Improving fundamental assessment practices

Betty Gill

53-63
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Feature

Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention, Success: STARS Invited Panel

Karen Nelson, John Clarke

1-8
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Emerging Initiatives

Inquiry-based learning to improve student engagement in a large first year topic

Masha Smallhorn, Jeanne Young, Narelle Hunter, Karen Burke da Silva

65-71
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Putting transition at the centre of whole-of-curriculum transformation

Marcus O'Donnell, Margaret Wallace, Anne Melano, Romy Lawson, Eeva Leinonen

73-79
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Going “old school”: From bedside manner to deskside manner

David Fleischman, Oscar Imaz-Marial

81-86
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Work Integrated Learning: What do the students want? A qualitative study of Health Sciences students’ experiences of a non-competency based placement

Elizabeth Abery, Claire Drummond, Nadia Bevan

87-91
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An analysis of user engagement in student Facebook groups

Murray Lane, Victoria Menzies

93-98
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