Forum 2011

AAIR 21st Annual Forum

Rain, floods, cyclones - welcome to Queensland! The start to 2011 was challenging, but now we've 'let the sunshine in'.

On behalf of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) Forum Organising Committee a sunny thank you is extended to all who participated in the 21st Annual AAIR Forum, which was held at the Sea World Resort, on the beautiful Gold Coast from 9–11 November 2011. Pre-Forum workshops were held on Tuesday 8 November.

We are pleased to publish Powerpoint presentations from the 2011 Annual Forum below. Refereed papers will be available in early December.  For additional information pertaining to this Forum, please visit the official Forum website.

Papers and Presentations

Program

Author(s)	Title	PPT	PDF
Arthur, Julie & Johnston, Don	Australian university staff data: A comparison of data collection and reporting
Bailey, Andrew	Operational reporting in a business intelligence environment
Bradshaw, Andrew & Sieniarski, Alex	Macquarie University generates new insights with business intelligence
Byrne, Alison & Harrison, Sandra	Igniting the SPARC: A new approach to student load projections (case study)
Carroll, David	An analysis of mode effects in the 2010 Course Experience Questionnaire (Awarded 'Best Paper')
Caruso, Catherine / Phil Aungles	Higher education performance funding
Clermont, Roslyn	Sunny prospects: the non-school leaver segment
Craig, Philip	Using predictive models to enhance university communication: starting and continuing the conversation
De Bellis, David	A model for considering the financial sustainablity of learning and teaching programs: concepts and challenges
Holmes, Jeff	Which preference matters?
Jeffreys, Andrea	2012: A brave new world (Awarded 'Best Presenter' and 'Best New Presenter')
Mackay, Alan	Educational status and other dimensions of life - shining the light on some of the data
Marr, David	What-the!! How-did? Oh-no!! Shining a bit of light on the allocation of fields of education to courses and units of study in Australian universities
Martin, Yew-May	The DEEWR higher education data cube (uCube)
Morahan, Brid, Young, Anne & McConkey, Kevin	Helping students find their place in the sun: improving the non-academic student experience
Naiyapatana, Ong-Art	Reengineering of a faculty of education using institutional research data: A case study in Thailand
Palermo, Josephine, Marr, Dave, Oriel, Jennifer, Arthur, Julie & Johnston, Don	Tracking student success: using an action learning approach to better understand the how, what, where and why
Ravindiran, Ravi	Characteristics of direct applications, applications, offers and acceptances, 2010 and 2011
Rowley, Sara & Nurbasari, Leone	Looking into higher degree cohort analyses: a competing risks analysis
Rowley, Sara & Nurbasari, Leone	Shining new light on course evaluations
Saab, Samar	Taking advantage of technology convergence in surveys and teaching evaluation implementations
Seidel, Ewa	An application of predictive modelling of undergraduate student intake
Teece, Mike	Demand-driven supply and supply-driven demand: likely responses to uncapped university places and budget implications
Thompson-Whiteside, Scott	Who sets the standards in higher education?
Vyas, Immanual	Attracting international students - some implications for consideration with changing immigration criteria
Ward, Dean & Banks, Nathan	Putting the spotlight on identifying students at risk of attrition: a case study in applied data analytics
Young, Anne	Data governance and data quality: is it on your agenda or lurking in the shadows?
Young, Anne	What's hot on the international IR scene?