Louisa Tomas
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Does Topic Matter? Investigating Students’ Interest, Emotions and Learning when Writing Stories About Socioscientific Issues Open
This case study of a Year 8 science class in South-East Queensland investigated the affective and cognitive experiences of engaging students in a science-writing project. Building on the work of Tomas, Rigano and Ritchie (2016), students w…
How Well Does the F-10 Australian Curriculum Prepare Students to be Water Literate Citizens? Open
Global water availability and management are persistent challenges to sustainable futures, yet people may have limited understandings of water systems and may hold negative attitudes towards sustainable solutions. With education a mechanis…
Impact through research in education and studies in human society: A review of Australian Research Council ‘high-for-impact’ case studies Open
Research impact is an important measure of the effective transmission and ongoing contribution of research beyond the scope of initial research publication outputs; however, determining what constitutes ‘high-for-impact’ research can be di…
Realising the sustainability cross- curriculum priority through action- oriented and transformative geography education Open
Sustainability is an important cross-curriculum priority in Australian education that is not commonly realised in schools and classrooms. In this article, we discuss the challenges and opportunities to enacting sustainability, suggesting t…
Junior secondary school students' conceptions about plate tectonics Open
There are ongoing calls for research that identifies students' conceptions about geographical phenomena. In response, this study investigates junior secondary school students' (N=95) conceptions about plate tectonics. Student response data…