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A model for team research projects and a conference poster session for students transitioning to maths at university

A model for team research projects and a conference poster session for students transitioning to maths at university

Date

Wednesday 24 July 2019, 1:00pm (AEST)

Speakers

Glen Wheeler (Wollongong)

Abstract: After a curriculum transformation, a new subject was created in the transition space from high-school to university for mathematics and cognate degrees. This new subject is compulsory and serves many purposes. The centrepiece event in the subject is a team poster presentation event at the end of the semester. Teams present not only their research project, but also individual projects that have been honed through two iterations earlier in the semester. These two iterations are partially anonymously peer-graded, and reflected upon as an assessment task. In this talk I will describe the current scaffolding, support and layering of assessment that facilitates teams in being able to present a research project at the end of semester. I will then use Brookfield’s four critical reflective lenses to analyse the process, and identify several open problems.

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