Postgraduate Supervision

Current Research Students

Anderson, Irene - PhD - Types of feedback
Chen, Jun Jun - PhD - Teacher evaluation
Koefed, Wendy - EdD - School reporting from a school-wide perspective
Lavery, Lyn - PhD - Self-regulated learning and assessment
Leeson, Heidi - PhD - Computer adaptive personality assessment
Main, Squirrel - PhD - Professional teaching in New Zealand schools
Mizutani, Satomi - PhD - Washback effects from NCEA Japanese
Patel-Taylor, Cherie - EdD - School reporting via student-led conferences
Pope, Kevin - EdD - Motivation theory
Smith, Sam - EdD - Value added models
Wardman, Jana - EdD - Acceleration for gifted students
Zwiegelaar, Jeremy - PhD - Music assessment

Completed Dissertations and Thesis

• Coryn, Christian - PhD - 2007 - Evaluation of Researchers and their Research: Toward Making the Implicit Explicit (University of Western Michigan)
• Hope, John - PhD - 2007 - Standard Setting for Information and Communication Technology in Teacher Education
• Croggan, Lawrence - MEd - 2006 - Truancy
• Adair, Allan - EdD - 2005 - Assessing Community Based General Practice
• Coogan, Phil - PhD - 2005 - When worlds collide: ICTs, English Teachers and High-Stakes Assessment
• Plessis, Anna-Barbara - PhD - 2005 - The Academic Self-Concept of Learners with Hearing Impairment in Two South African Public School Contexts: Special and Full-Service Inclusion Schools (University of Pretoria)
• Chen, Jing - MEd - 2004 - Teacher Evaluation in China
• Irving, Earl - PhD - 2004 - The Development and Validation of a Student Evaluation Instrument to Identify Highly Accomplished Mathematics Teachers
• Shulruf, Boaz - PhD - 2004 - The Influence of Individualist and Collectivist Attributes on Responses to Likert-Type Scales
• Rubie, Christine - PhD - 2003 - Expecting the Best : Instructional Practices, Teacher Beliefs and Student Outcomes
• Williams, Janet - MEd - 2003 - The Cummins model: An Adaption to Assist Foreign Nursing Students in New Zealand
• Brown, Gavin - PhD - 2002 - Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment
• Chase, Andrea - MEd - 2002 - A structural model of engagement in science
• Harland, Don - MA - 2002 - Teaching Argumentative Writing to Year 9 Students
• Smith, Richard - PhD - 2002 - Accountability in Education: Reviewing the Reviewers. A Policy Study of the Education Review Office (University of Canterbury)
• Anderson, Angelika - PhD - 2001 - The Effect of Locus of Control and Classroom Climate on Motivation in the Classroom: An Ecological Approach to Personality and Action
• Zwiegelaar, Jeremy - MA - 2001 - The Value of Differential Bundle Functioning Using the PIRLS and SOLO Categories as Organising Principles
• Crosby, Steve - MEd - 2000 - Excellence in outdoor education: A search for X-factor
• Karkee, Thakur - PhD - 1999 - An Investigation if IRT-Adjusted Grade Point Average in the Prediction of College Performance: Applications to Gender and Race Bias (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• Fletcher, Richard - PhD - 1998 - Test Assembly for Polytomous Items: An Application Using the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)