APERA-WERA Keynote Presentations
APERA 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Eva L. Baker

Changing Learning through Invention, Research, and Connection (November 23, 2010)

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Eva L. Baker is Distinguished Professor in the divisions of Psychological Studies in Education and Social Research Methodology at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and has directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) since 1975. She is also Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). Her research is focused on the integration of instruction and measurement, including design and empirical validation of principles for developing instructional systems, and new measures of complex human performance. She is presently involved in the design of technologically sophisticated testing and evaluation systems of assessment in large-scale environments for both military and civilian education. Baker is the President of WERA. E-Mail: baker@cse.ucla.edu

Sari Lindblom-Ylänne

Student Learning in Higher Education: Approaches to Learning, Teaching-learning Environments and Study Success (November 23, 2010)

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Sari Lindblom-Ylänne is Professor of Higher Education, Deputy Head, Department of Education and Director of the Centre for Research and Development of Higher Education, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She is also President of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). Her research interests include: selection of students for universities and the predictive value of entrance examinations; the relationship between the learning environment and the student; orientations to studying and study orchestrations; conceptions of knowledge and learning; assessment and evaluation; problem-based learning; technology, learning and teaching; scholarship of university teaching; and counselling and supervision. E-Mail: sari.lindblom-ylanne@helsinki.fi

Jo-Anne Reid

Sustainability and Educational Research: Working with Teachers for Curriculum Relevance and Intergenerational Justice (November 24, 2010)

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Jo-Anne Reid is Professor of Education and Associate Dean, Teacher Education in the Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University. She began her career teaching Secondary English, and has a long-standing involvement in teacher education. She is interested in the potential of post-structuralist theories of practice for rethinking education and diversity in post-modern society. She has been continuously in receipt of research funding for the past fifteen years (through University and National Competitive Grants) over the past fifteen years, several of which have focused on English teaching, and teacher education, including overseas-born and educated non-native English-speaking teachers, and the career pathways of indigenous teachers, literacy and the environment and rural teacher education. Reid is Vice President of WERA. E-Mail: joreid@csu.edu.au