Category Archives: Industry specific resources

This Synthesis report provides a summary of Ako Aotearoa-funded projects that explore approaches to educating and assessing health practitioners. Continue reading →

Research on how accounting and finance academics can improve their proficiency and effectiveness as teachers. Continue reading →

Research to identify effective methods of disseminating non-technical capabilities to veterinary students in New Zealand. Continue reading →

Research to better prepare built environment professionals to work and engage with Māori, through developing resources for teaching and learning in the planning, architecture, engineering and landscape architecture disciplines. Continue reading →

Research aimed to develop a professional capabilities framework, clarifying the capabilities of newly qualified social workers and social workers at experienced and advanced levels of practice. Continue reading →

Research to develop an online resource for health students about recovery from addiction from a service user perspective. Continue reading →

A project to evaluate the benefits for medical students of an Interprofessional Dedicated Education Unit at Middlemore Hospital and Manukau Surgery Centre. Continue reading →

Research to develop a framework (SCAN) to provide a structure for explicitly improving clinical feedback processes. Continue reading →

A project to investigate the lack of a pedagogical and professional development model for teaching Telehealth to healthcare workers. Continue reading →

Research to update the RESIST Earthquake Design software and enhance its effectiveness as a design and teaching tool. Continue reading →

Research to better understand the development of reflective practice skills of clinical psychology students. Continue reading →

Research on implementing a pilot programme of public drop-in, community-based Medicines and Health Literacy Clinics. Continue reading →

A longitudinal project to develop a New Zealand law student profile. Continue reading →

Research to identify barriers to, and opportunities for, providing Primary Health Care clinical placements throughout NZ. Continue reading →

A project to produce training resource for motivational interviewing (MI) and brief intervention (BI) counselling skills designed to highlight the nature of the interpersonal interactions and in particular the portrayal of empathy. Continue reading →

This report reviews assessment practices used by four industry training organisations (ITOs) to identify models of good practice. Continue reading →

Research examining the application of mathematics knowledge to industry orientated problems in classroom teaching. Continue reading →

A project to understand the way in which practice-based learning operates across three different occupational fields General Practice (GP) medicine, building and engineering. Continue reading →

Research to evaluate the effectiveness of simulation in the teaching of clinical skills to first year nursing students. Continue reading →

Research to develop guidelines for improving hospitality students’ reflective practice and digital evaluation skills. Continue reading →

Research on developing workplace tutors in the health sector to help support workers develop critical thinking skills. Continue reading →

Research on the merits of Dedicated Education Units for nursing students. Continue reading →

This report explores ways in which creating digital stories can support the development of vocational literacy skills.  Continue reading →

Research to test whether CLES+T is a valid tool to assess nursing students’ perception of the quality of their learning. Continue reading →

Research to test a tool for assessing nursing students’ perception of the quality of their learning in community settings. Continue reading →

Research evaluating the ‘Hearing Voices’ programme, an innovative simulation programme for mental health workers. Continue reading →

This project explored the value added by field-based teacher education in the early childhood education sector. Continue reading →

This project investigated how employers and Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) could work more effectively together to mentor workplace apprentices and help apprentices stay in work and complete training. Continue reading →

Research to improve the learning experience for apprentice engineering trade students using augmented reality technology. Continue reading →

This project developed an induction pack resource to assist trainers to support early career teachers within their organisations. Continue reading →