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Funded Research: ARC Grants

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2009

Project Title	Investigators
The influence of evidence-based decisions by collaborative teacher teams on student achievement	Professor Patrick Griffin; AsProf Esther Care; A/Prof ML Wu; Mr WJ Craig; Ms LE Clark; Mr JA Nelson; Mr P Sedunary; Ms L Murray; Ms R McLoughlin
Assessing the effectiveness of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs in Australian communities	Professor Collette Tayler; Prof K Thorpe; Professor Patrick Griffin; Professor Raymond Adams; Prof I Siraj-Blatchford; Prof EB Waters; Dr GH Cleveland; Dr K Ishimine; Dr TD Gilley; Prof AV Sanson; Prof F Oberklaid; Ms L Luxford; Dr J Dungan
Educating the Adolescent: An historical study of curriculum, counselling and citizenship in Australia 1930s-70s	Associate Professor Julie McLeod Dr Katie Wright
Family Violence and Problem Gambling in Help-Seeking Populations: Prevalence, Comorbidity, Impact and Coping	Professor Alun Conrad Jackson Prof SA Thomas Dr N Dowling Dr ME Bellringer Prof MW Abbott A/Prof J Koziol-McLain Dr JL Patford

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2008

Project Title	Investigators
The Young Learners’ Project: Identifying personalised teaching strategies for early literacy in children in preschool and the first year of school	Associate Professor Margaret Brown, Dr Esther Care Professor Bridie Raban Professor Field Rickards Mr Terry O’Connell (from ASG)
Supporting personalised learning in secondary schools through the use of specific mathematics assessments that reveal thinking	Professor Kaye Stacey Dr Helen Chick Dr Vicki Steinle
Youth-led learning: local connections and global citizenship	Dr Ani Wierenga Professor Johanna Wyn Dr Jose Guevara and Professor Annette Gough (RMIT University) Ms Sarah Dyer (Plan International Australia)
An investigation of causal relations between complex classroom practices and science learning using high capacity new research technologies and multiple theory-testing	Professor David Clarke Professor Russell Tytler (Deakin University)
Success despite learning difficulties: The effectiveness of a coping program for adolescent students	Dr Lyndal Bond (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences) Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg Ms Nola Firth
University position-taking strategies in the global environment: a cross-country study of the Asia-Pacific region	Professor Simon Marginson
Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations	Professor Simon Marginson Professor Mark Considine (Faculty of Arts)
International Classroom Research Collaboration	Professor David Clarke Professor Christine Keitel‑Kreidt (Berlin); Associate Professor Yoshinori Shimizu (Tsukuba); Professor Ference Marton (Göteborg); Dr Jonas Emanuelsson (Göteborg); Associate Professor Fritjof Sahlström (Uppsala); Professor Frederick Leung (Hong Kong); Associate Professor Rongjin Huang I (Macau); Professor Zhongdan Huan (Beijing); Professor Jarmila Novotna (Prague); Dr Berinderjeet Kaur (Singapore); Associate Professor Kyungmee Park (Korea); Dr Floranda Gallos (Philippines)

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2007:

Project Title	Investigators
Accessing the cultural conversation: investigating participation and non-participation of young people as audiences of live theatrical performances in Australia	Professor John O'Toole Assoc. Prof. Angela O'Brien Dr Kate Donelan Dr Christine Sinclair Professor Bruce Burton and Asoc. Prof. Penelope Bundy (Griffith University) Assoc. Prof. Robyn Ewing, Dr Michel Anderson and Dr John Hughes (University fo Sydney)
An Investigation into Strategies for using Information and Communication Technologies to Address Educational Disadvantage Resulting from Prolonged School Absence	Dr Tony Jones Associate Professor Anne McDougall Mrs Margaret Robertson (Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute)
Creating culturally respectful primary schools: Enhancing relationships through strategic professional learning	Professor Glenda MacNaughton Professor Eleanor Wertheim Ms Liz Freeman
Strengthening standards of teaching through linking standards and teacher learning: The development of professional standards for teaching school geography	Dr Dianne Mulcahy Dr Jeana Kriewaldt Professor David Clarke; Mr John Hutchinson (Australian Geography Teachers Association); Ms Anne Dempster (Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria); Ms Frances Cosgrove (Victorian Institute of Teaching)
Vocational Education and Training in Schools: Cultural Resistance and the Academic Tradition	Associate Professor John Polesel Professor Jack Keating Professor Richard Teese
The Shallow Teaching Syndrome in School Mathematics ­ towards practical ways that will engage students more deeply	Professor Kaye Stacey
School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: a review of state curriculum policies 1975-1005	Professor Lyn Yates
Profiling developmental standards of learning for students with intellectual disabilities	Professor Patrick Griffin Professor Ray Adams Dr Charles Parsons Mr J J Allman Mr I J Claridge Ms K Underwood
Mapping and augmenting engagement, learning and cultural belonging for children undertaking ArtPlay workshops	Professor John O'Toole Dr Neryl Jeanneret
Developing methods for benefit measurement in health-related economic analyses and their use in selecting public health promotional programs *administered by Monash University	*Professor Jeff Richardson, (Monash University) Dr R Borland Professor RA Cummins Professor HE Herrman Associate Professor Ros Hurworth Professor BA Swinburn Associate Professor ET Vos
Education Investment in Australian Schooling : Serving Public Purposes * administered by the University of South Australia	* Professor Alan Reid (UniSA) Associate Professor NC Cranston Professor Jack Keating Professor WR Mulford

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2006

Project Title	Investigators
Enhancing Wellbeing and Learning in Middle Years Classrooms	Dr Erica Frydenberg Liz Freeman Dr Esther Care Ms M Tobin (Catholic Education Office) Mrs B Begg (Catholic Education Office)
Staff Parent Relations in Culturally Diverse Early Education Settings	Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton Dr Patrick Hughes
A multi‑disciplinary investigation of how Trauma and Chronic Illness impact on Schooling, Identity and Social Connectivity	Professor Lyn Yates Dr Julianne Moss Dr Julie White Dr Trevor Hay Dr Peter Ferguson Dr Mary Dixon Dr L Bond Dr SE Drew Dr Pam St Leger

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2005

Project Title	Investigators
International comparative study of successful school leadership: Successful school leadership in Australia	Professor Brian Caldwell Professor WR Mulford Dr David Gurr Dr Lawrie Drysdale Dr RS Swann
The influence of disciplinary cultures on approaches to undergraduate teaching and learning: extending higher education theory and practice	Professor Richard James Associate Professor Gay Baldwin Dr Kerri-Lee Krause
Responsibility for knowledge generation in Australian and Korean mathematics classrooms: Beyond the teacher-centred/student-centred dichotomy	Professor David Clarke Professor F Leung
The work and workings of the Masson family	Professor Richard Selleck
Pathways then and now: new student transitions to adulthood in a comparative context	Professor Johanna Wyn Associate Professor L Andres
Academic Curriculum and School Setting : How school subjects live different lives in different schools	Professor Richard Teese Associate Professor Stephen Lamb
Modelling person and item parameters of computer administered problem solving strategies	Professor Patrick Griffin Mr Andy Mak and Dr Margaret Wu
Transformative arts education partnerships: a creative approach to whole school renewal	Dr Kate Donelan Associate Professor AM O'Brien Mr B New Mr D Everist
Youth civic participation and social connection in post-industrial society: a comparative analysis	Associate Professor Anita Harris Professor Johanna Wyn

 

ARC success for funding commencing in 2004

Project Title	Investigators
Enhancing mathematics achievement and engagement by using technology to support real problem solving and lessons of high cognitive demand	Professor Kaye Stacey Dr Gloria Stillman Dr RU Pierce (Texas Instruments Australia)
Conceptual complexity and student engagement with science in secondary school	Dr Christina Hart
Preschool children's constructions of cultural and 'racial' diversity	Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton
Young people, preventive health discourses and self care	Dr Mary O'Brien

 

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