Grants

  • 2008 EPSA Faculty Teaching and Learning Strategic funds
    Title: Developing innovative approaches to learning mathematics in a new environment
    Amount: $18,060
    Applicants: Michael Jennings, Joseph Grotowski, Peter Adams

  • 2008 EPSA Faculty Teaching and Learning Strategic funds
    Title: Embedding MATLAB across the UQ undergraduate science and engineering curriculum
    Amount: $25,040
    Applicants: Diane Donovan, Murray Elder, Joseph Grotowski, Phillip Isaac, Anthony Roberts, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Victor Scharaschkin, Bevan Thompson

  • 2008 SPS Teaching and Learning Grant
    Title: A module for an undergraduate research-type experience for second-year students in Mathematics
    Amount: $4203
    Applicants: Katrina Hibberd, Phil Isaac, Sue Worsley
    Details: In progress.

  • 2008 UQ TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIC LARGE GRANT
    Title: First Year Engineering Competency Testing - Addressing the Changing Cohort
    Amount: $89,500
    Applicants: Lydia Kavanagh, Liza O’Moore, Peter Halley, Paul Lant (Engineering), Peter Adams (Mathematics), Lawrie Gahan (Chemistry), Michael Jennings (Mathematics), and Anton Rayner (Physics)
    Aims: This project will design a competency test for first-year engineering students to assess knowledge and application of high school level maths, physics, and chemistry. Results will be used to identify students at risk of failure and in need of support; provide feedback to students regarding possible weaknesses and potential study problems, and feed forward knowledge of the cohort’s strengths and weaknesses to teaching academics to allow them to provide additional tutoring/resources where necessary.

  • 2008 SPS teaching initiative
    Title: Investigating first-year students’ mathematical abilities to support course redevelopment
    Amount: $3500
    Applicants: Michael Jennings and Peter Adams
    Aims: This project is for development of an online diagnostic test with automatic correction and feedback to students and staff. The system was used in two first-year courses to test threshold concepts and is easily modified to apply to other courses in any year.

  • 2007 EPSA Teaching and Learning Grant
    Title: Development of Interactive web-based Tutorials for service teaching in Statistics
    Amount: $14,834
    Applicants: R.J. Wilson
    Objective: To enhance the teaching and learning of statistics in undergraduate courses through the creation of interactive web-based tutorials and associated materials.

  • 2007 SPS Teaching and Learning Grant
    Title: Enhancing the student experience in MATH1050 through the use of a group project
    Amount: $2000
    Applicants: Katrina Hibberd, Barbara Maenhaut, Peter Adams, Michael Bulmer
    Details: Poster project .

  • 2006 CARRICK INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    Title: A new enabling technology for learning and teaching quantitative skills
    Amount: $134,749
    Applicants: Peter Adams (Mathematics), Jamie Alcock (Business School), Michael Bulmer (Mathematics), Joseph Grotowski (Mathematics), Min-Chun Hong (Mathematics), Michael Jennings (Mathematics), Valda Miller (SMMS), Mia O'Brien (TEDI), Victor Scharaschkin (Mathematics)
    Aims: The project’s goal was creation of a flexible electronic framework through which students have access to a very large number of illustrative examples, problems and questions that cover a wide range of fundamental mathematical, statistical and quantitative skills.

  • 2006 SPS TEACHING INITIATIVES
    Title: Using PASS to address issues of diversity and access in first-year Mathematics
    $3500
    Applicants: Michael Jennings and Peter Adams
    Aims: This project will develop a PASS workbook to help students develop a greater understanding of mathematics through carefully designed questions and activities. Instead of learning a rule by rote and applying it incorrectly as many students do, the workbook investigates why rules work and the mathematics involved.

     

     

    Past projects

  • 1997 TEDI Teaching and Learning Development Grant
    Title: Australian Data Sets for Teaching Statistics
    Amount: $1,000
    Applicants: G.K. Smyth, R.J. Wilson, M.J. Faddy, J.A. Eccleston
    Objective: To make available on a WWW site, a bank of interesting data sets with an Australian context.


  • 1996 The University of Queensland's Quality Funds - Program L2/95
    Title: Using Statistical Packages in Statistics Service Courses
    Amount: $10,000
    Applicants: M.J. Faddy, G.J. McLachlan, R.J. Wilson
    Objective: To develop modules for using statistical packages (MINITAB) to teach students statistical concepts and methods in large service courses.

     

     

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