Completed theses

Conferred in 2009

Name	Degree awarded	Thesis title	Supervisor	Keywords
Bennie, Andrew	PhD	Effective coaching in cricket, rugby league and rugby union: a qualitative investigation involving professional coaches and players from Australia. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Associate Professor Donna O'Connor	– training of (athletics) coaches – coach characteristics – coach leadership – coach-athlete relationships – effective coaching in the professional sport environment – coaching role, knowledge and skills
Campbell, Victoria	MEd(Research)	Tales from the liminal classroom: preservice teachers and oral storytelling. view the abstract	Associate Professor Michael Anderson	– preservice-teacher education – storytelling – primary-school teachers – skill development – intervention – education majors – higher education – interviews – professional identity
Chrisman, John Eugene	MEd(Research)	Harbinger of change!: study abroad students control their destiny through an enhanced Web2.0-based program.	Dr Nigel Bagnal	– instructional systems design – computer-assisted instruction – audio-visual education – individualised instruction
Chung, Dau-Chung	PhD	Struggles for recognition: the development of HIV/AIDS curricula in schools of social work in Taiwan. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Dr Ruth Phillips	– curriculum development – social work – community attitudes – health education – content analysis – discourse analysis – genealogy – Foucault (M) – HIV/AIDS education – people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) – Taiwan
Crawford, Shauna	PhD	Braille analysis of phonemes, graphemes, onset & rimes, and words in young children and adults. view the abstract	Professor Robert Elliott	– study and teaching of Braille – English language – study and teaching of phonology
Deerajviset, Poranee	PhD	eLearning in English as a Foreign Language Education in Thailand’s higher education context. view the abstract	Associate Professor Lesley Harbon	– computer-assisted instruction – ICT in higher education – internet in higher education – student attitudes – Thailand
Economou, Dorothy	PhD	Photos in the news: appraisal analysis of visual semiosis and verbal-visual intersemiosis. view the abstract	Professor Peter Freebody	– photojournalism in Australia – mass media – semiotics
Fielding, Ruth	PhD	Speaking two languages is a gift: a study exploring how young bilingual students identify with being bilingual.	Associate Professor Lesley Harbon	– bilingualism in children – Australia
Gonzalez, Carlos	MPhil	University teachers' experiences of teaching in blended learning environments. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Professor Peter Goodyear	– blended learning – academic staff attitudes – eLearning – ICT in education – teaching methods – teaching styles – interviews – online surveys
Green, Jasmine	PhD	The roles of academic motivation, self-concept, and cognitive and behavioural action in predicting educational outcomes: findings from large-scale, cross-sectional, and longitudinal modelling.	Professor Andrew Martin	– cognition – learning – motivation (psychology) – self-perception
Gunawardena, Harshi	PhD	Colonial institutions: postcolonial identities: the experiences of international students from the Indian subcontinent at an Australian university. view the abstract	Dr Nigel Bagnall	– attitudes of foreign students – evaluation of higher education – Indian college students – Australia
Hasler, Jane Belinda	PhD	No bloody wonder: exposing the relationship between postnatal depression (PND) and the gender order.	Dr Susan Goodwin	– psychological aspects of postpartum depression – social aspects of postpartum depression
Howard, Sarah	PhD	Teacher change: individual and cultural risk perceptions in the context of ICT integration. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Professor Peter Goodyear	– risk perceptions – school culture – teacher change – technology
Hwang, Yoon Suk	PhD	Mind and autism spectrum disorders: a theory-of-mind-continuum model and typology developed from theory-of-mind as subjectively experienced and objectively understood. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Associate Professor David Evans	– Autism Spectrum Disorders – Theory-of-Mind– mind – objectivity – subjectivity – Republic of Korea
Masroori, Neika	MEd(Res)	Higher-order and lower-order questioning in private and state school classrooms.	Dr Nigel Bagnall	– language education – interpersonal communication – questioning – secondary study and teaching – NSW
McMullan, Nola Anne	MEd(Res)	An investigation into teaching morphological spelling strategies to secondary students with literacy support needs.	Associate Professor David Evans	– English language – study and teaching of English – orthography and spelling – psychology of spelling – secondary education
Namgung, Sang Un	PhD	Returning scholars in Korean higher education: a case study of internationalisation of higher education. view the abstract	Professor Anthony Welch	– education and globalisation – education and state – economic aspects – social aspects – returned students – South Korea
Nockles, David Peter	EdD	Student perceptions of effective schooling. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Dr Kevin Laws	– effective teaching – learning – motivation in education
O'Shea, Sarah Elizabeth	PhD	Choices, challenges and changes: exploring transition, persistence and engagement for first generation, female university students.	Dr Lesley Scanlon	– attitudes of students – women college students – New South Wales – University of Sydney
Peng, Jian E	PhD	Exploring willingness to communicate (WTC) in English in Chinese EFL university classrooms: a mixed methods approach.	Dr Lindy Woodrow	– classroom management – communication – social aspects – second language acquisition – study and teaching of English Language – Chinese speakers – China
Perkins, Susan Margaret Beaton	PhD	A self study of a teacher's empathic attunement.	Dr John Hughes	– attitudes of students – empathy in study and teaching – female offenders – juvenile delinquents – teacher-student relationships
Punmongkol, Piyawan	PhD	The regulation of academic emotions.	Associate Professor Richard Walker	– adjustment (psychology) – college students – personality assessment
Quinn, Catherine	DSW	Social worth with people who have dementia: an exploration of practice in New South Wales	Dr Lindsey Napier	– dementia patients – care – services – Alzheimer's disease – psychiatric social work – New South Wales
Raffaele, Martin Paul	MPhil	An exploration of the psychosocial effects that school-age children with Child Absence Epilepsy (CAE) experience when their condition is misdiagnosed as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Professor Robyn Ewing	– attention deficit disordered children – epilepsy in children – diagnostic errors
Sainsbury, Erica Jane	PhD	A sociocultural approach to conceptual change learning in first year pharmacy students. view the abstract	Associate Professor Richard Walker	– case studies – change (psychology) – educational sociology – learning – social change
Shih, Jen Hwa	PhD	The causal and mediating influences of knowledge and experience of mediation on learning processes. view the abstract	Associate Professor Richard Walker	– experiential learning – psychology of learning – Philosophy of learning – knowledge management – mediation
Sinthunava, Kittiwan	PhD	Change and change management in higher education in Thailand: a case study of six Rajabhat Universities in Bangkok. Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Dr Kevin Laws	– case studies – organisational change
Spencer, John Andrew	EdD	Evaluating TRIAGE methodology as a means of planning for an evaluation of staff training within an Australian government agency.	Dr Kevin Laws	– civil service personnel management – training of employees – triage (medicine) decision making – Australia
Stewart, Miranda Kaye	MPhil	Expectations, perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the life education program among students, teachers and parents.	Associate Professor Jennifer O'Dea	– Life Education – drug abuse – drug use – school children – Australia
Stone, Catherine	DSW	The second chance journey ... or ... "How did these oldies get to be uni students?" Click on the appropriate link below to view the: abstract complete thesis	Dr Zita Weber	– non-traditional students – open learning – pathways – adult students – feminist criticism – higher education – undergraduate students – narrative inquiry – transformational education – University of Newcastle
Webster, Dianne Robin	PhD	The impact of take-home family oriented science activities on primary school students' science learning: the SAKs project.	Professor Robyn Ewing	– science – study and teaching – primary education – methodology – Australia
Wong, Monica May Dze	PhD	Assessing students' knowledge and conceptual understanding of fraction equivalence.	Associate Professor David Evans	– fractions – decimal fractions – study and teaching – primary education
Xun, Feng	PhD	The impact of school culture on the adoption of an innovation: case studies of four secondary schools in China.	Dr Kevin Laws
Yuwono, Grace Ika	PhD	Indonesian EFL teacher professionalism: a case study in the Salatiga Municipality. view the abstract	Associate Professor Lesley Harbon	– English as a second language – English as a foreign language – teacher attitudes – professionalism – primary education – secondary education – case studies – Indonesia

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