Week 7: Authors

Associate Professor Beatrice Tucker, Curtin University & Associate Professor Phillip Dawson, Deakin University

Associate Professor Beatrice Tucker is the Director of the Curtin Learning Institute, Curtin Teaching and Learning at Curtin University, and has been integral to the development, validation, implementation and evaluation of two evaluation systems; a school (1999 to 2005), and later the university’s online student evaluation system (called eVALUate) since 2005. She has also developed and embedded Teaching Excellence at Curtin – a framework outlining criteria and standards for academics; provides leadership for the area; and is responsible for professional learning for staff, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Learning Spaces and the educational guidance and support at all levels for academic staff at Curtin. Beatrice is also a physiotherapist who has specialist skills and knowledge in cardiopulmonary physiotherapy science. Her research publication areas include the evaluation of teaching and learning, University Teaching Excellence Criteria and Standards, undergraduate sources of stress, cardiopulmonary science and its clinical education.

Associate Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson is Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. His research focuses on assessment design, feedback, educational technology and academic integrity. Phill was co-lead of the Assessment Design Decisions Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) project, which developed extensive resources to support assessment designers. He is currently working on the Feedback for Learning OLT project, which seeks to share effective feedback designs from across the sector. Phill is particularly interested in understanding how academics manage to implement effective assessment, despite the many challenges they face. Phill has a decade of teaching experience across three universities, for which he has received multiple Vice-Chancellors’ awards and a Citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.