Andrea Carr

• BA(Hons), GradCert UT&L, PhD
• Head of Faculty at University of Tasmania

Background Formative online multiple‐choice tests are ubiquitous in higher education and potentially powerful learning tools. However, commonly used feedback approaches in online multiple‐choice tests can discourage meaningful engagement and enable strategies, such as trial‐and‐error, that circumvent intended learning outcomes. These strategies wil...

COVID-19 has driven sustained adaptations to learning, particularly online. While the pandemic environment is still shaping current learning and teaching practices, there is an opportunity to reflect on how an increasingly diverse cohort are enabled to succeed in the post-pandemic environment. A transition pedagogy that focuses on an institute-wide...

Aim The aim of this integrative review is to explore how formative online multiple-choice tests used in nurse education promote self-regulated learning and report on pedagogies that support their design. Background Online multiple-choice tests are widely used as learning and formative assessment tools in a range of educational contexts. However, l...

What pedagogical elements of undergraduate curriculum (e.g. learning outcomes, assessments, learning activities, and instruction) predicts positive behavioural development? A quantitative survey (n=46) was delivered at the start and end of two undergraduate business curricula and includes measures of authentic leader behaviours, belonging, psycholo...

COVID-19 has significantly impacted teaching and learning in higher education, leading institutions to embrace Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in response to school and university closure. A systematic review research methodology was used to identify, analyse and synthesise literature on professional development in higher education published betwee...

Students are increasingly diverse, with traditional pedagogies and instructional approaches lacking effectiveness in engaging a variety of student cohorts. This study takes a behavioural approach to examining students in the classroom, seeking to better understand the relationships between authentic leadership, wellbeing, belonging, and engagement...

Immersive learning environments require effective facilitators to enable student learning. In current literature on immersive learning, there is limited insight on the role that teacher behaviors have on fostering learning. Despite this, there is considerable literature on the role of the teacher as a leader in contemporary classrooms. This chapter...

The Curriculum Evaluation Research (CER) Framework was developed as a response to increasing scrutiny and expectations of the higher education sector, including legislated standards for curriculum and professional teachers that explicitly require a systematic and comprehensive approach to evaluating curriculum. The CER Framework is designed to faci...

Development of student behaviours is an important component of creating the conditions for students ready to engage with their post-university personal and professional life; particularly student leadership. This project takes the theories of authentic leadership, wellbeing, engagement, and belonging and seeks to test changes in students’ behaviour...

This article presents a method to evaluate undergraduate and postgraduate course teaching efficiency systematically, alongside measuring effectiveness of curriculum content and delivery. We argue that efficiency is aligned to cost and revenue while effectiveness is a quality-related construct. These potentially antagonistic elements – cost, revenue...

The Higher Education Standards (HES) Framework prescribes the minimum requirements for provision of higher education in Australia. Standard 5.3 in particular functions as a driver for continuous evaluation informing ongoing curriculum transformation. This paper presents a conceptual approach and framework for embedding evaluation into course curric...

The Higher Education Standards (HES) Framework prescribes the minimum requirements for provision of higher education in Australia. Standard 5.3 in particular functions as a driver for continuous evaluation informing ongoing curriculum transformation. This paper presents a conceptual approach and framework for embedding evaluation into course curric...

Emotion regulation deficits have been implicated in anxiety and depressive disorders, and these internalising disorders are more prevalent in women than men. Few electrophysiological studies have investigated sex differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation controlling for menstrual phase. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded...

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A cognitive model of social anxiety predicts that an early attentional bias leads to greater cognitive processing of social threat signals, whereas the vigilance-avoidance model predicts there will be subsequent reduction in cognitive processing. This study tests these models by examining neural responses to social threat stimuli using Event-Relate...

This is a PDF version of the 'Customising PATS' online guide, available at monash.edu/pats, first published October 2015. The guide provides a conceptual framework, design advice and case stories on customising the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme (PATS). It is the output of a multi-university partnership project, funded by the Australian Office for L...

Neuroscience is an important component of STEM disciplines and fundamental to understanding dementia, a growing worldwide public health issue. Understanding the neuropathology and clinical manifestations of dementia is important for those who need to provide effective daily care for adults with dementia. Dementia care workers form a non-traditional...

Event-related potential (ERP) studies have revealed an early attentional bias in processing unpleasant emotional images in women. Recent neuroimaging data suggests there are significant differences in cortical emotional processing according to menstrual phase. This study examined the impact of menstrual phase on visual emotional processing in women...

Dementia prevalence and the demand for dementia care are increasing. Informal caregiving accounts for a large proportion of dementia care, but can come at high cost for caregivers. Informal dementia caregivers are at higher risk for mental health problems than the general population. This study examines whether perceived change in leisure activitie...

Introduction In response to a move towards a deregulated Australian Higher Education environment, the Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, has adjusted its quality assurance and monitoring processes to systematically evaluate course efficiency alongside measuring effectiveness of curriculum content and delivery. Efficiency is a notion related...

This study investigated gender differences in two key processes involved in anxiety, arousal and attentional bias towards threat. Arousal was assessed using salivary alpha-amylase (sAA), a biomarker of noradrenergic arousal and attention bias using a dot-probe task. Twenty-nine women and 27 men completed the dot-probe task and provided saliva sampl...

Research on undergraduate students’ perceptions of palliative care for people with dementia is scant. Most of this research has focused on the views of undergraduate students from nursing, medicine and pharmacy disciplines with a general focus on end-of-life care for older adults, and rarely focus explicitly on palliation in dementia care. The aim...

There have been repeated calls from health professionals and policy-makers to clarify the side-effects of the increasingly popular consumption trend of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED). There is a dearth of research assessing the differential effects of AmED relative to alcohol by comparing self-reported psychological and physiological outco...

The University of Tasmania established a project in 2009 to investigate the particular needs of casual teaching staff, identify strategies to improve access to information, and facilitate a consistent approach to employment, induction, development and recognition. The project was managed by the university learning and teaching centre, and co-ordina...

Difficulties in emotion regulation have been implicated as a potential mechanism underlying anxiety and mood disorders. It is possible that sex differences in emotion regulation may contribute towards the heightened female prevalence for these disorders. Previous fMRI studies of sex differences in emotion regulation have shown mixed results, possib...

The Global Perspectives (GP) program is an evidence-based curriculum initiative that integrates the process of designing and implementing a learning program with a process for developing and implementing a plan to evaluate it for effectiveness and impact. The GP program educational evaluation and research (EER) plan was based on the framework for e...

The Associate Degree in Dementia Care is a course offered by the University of Tasmania, developed in consultation with the Australian aged care industry to support the professional development of its workforce. Aged care workers do not typically possess higher education qualifications and the initial cohort of 180 students, consisted predominantly...

Background: It has been argued that consuming alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED) causes a subjective underestimation of intoxication and an increased level of risk-taking behavior. To date, however, there is mixed support for AmED-induced reductions in perceived intoxication, and no objective assessment of risk-taking following AmED consumpti...

While the performance-enhancing effects of energy drinks are commonly attributed to caffeine, recent research has shown greater facilitation of performance post-consumption than typically expected from caffeine content alone. Consequently, the aim of the present study was to investigate the independent and combined effect of taurine and caffeine on...