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Maria

Northcote

Position: Adjunct Professor

Biography

Career

Supervision

Outputs

Professor Maria Northcote’s is a researcher and educator who has worked in the higher education sector for almost 30 years. Her most recent academic role was the Director of Higher Degree Research at Avondale University. During her career she researched assessment design, professional learning, researcher education, mathematics education, pre-service teaching and online learning. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Avondale University.

Education

Diploma of Teaching, Primary
Catholic College of Education
Bachelor of Education
Western Australian College of Advance Education
PhD
Edith Cowan University

Supervision

  • Assessment in higher education
  • Education studies
  • Information/communication technologies and development
  • Learning design and learning support
  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Threshold concepts

Journal articles

  • 2024
    Investigating the effect of enhanced cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on health-care-associated infections in Australia (CLEEN): a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised, controlled trial Browne, Katrina et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 24, Issue 12, 1347 - 1356
  • 2024
    Oral care practices and hospital-acquired pneumonia prevention: A national survey of Australian nurses
  • 2023
    Where to go for a Christian Research Degree? Part 2
  • 2023

    Hattingh, S., & Northcote, M. (2023). Personalising online assessments: A systematic literature review. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(10), 1420-1436. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2023.2250743

  • 2022
    Where to go for a Christian Research Degree [Part 1]
  • 2022
    An Evaluation of Teacher Stressors in an era of COVID-19
  • 2021

    Morton, J., Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., & Jackson, W. (2021). Sharing the construction of assessment rubrics with students: A model for collaborative rubric construction. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 18(4), 9. https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol18/iss4/9

  • 2021

    Morton, J., Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., & Jackson, W. (2021). Sharing the construction of assessment rubrics with students: A model for collaborative rubric construction. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 18(4), 9. https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol18/iss4/9

  • 2021
    Disruptive Changing Higher Education Ecosystems: Have University Academics Been Gazumped?
  • 2021

    Morton, J., Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., & Jackson, W. (2021). Sharing the construction of assessment rubrics with students: A model for collaborative rubric construction. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 18(4), 9. https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol18/iss4/9

  • 2021

    Renfrew, M. E., Morton, D. P., Northcote, M., Morton, J. K., Hinze, J. S., & Przybylko, G. (2021). Participant perceptions of facilitators and barriers to adherence in a digital mental health intervention for a nonclinical cohort: Content analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(4), e25358. https://doi.org/10.2196/25358

  • 2020

    Long, W., Barnes, L., Northcote, M., & Williams, A. P. (2020). Accounting academic workloads: Balancing workload creep to avoid depreciation in the higher education sector. Education, Society and Human Studies, 1(2), 55-83. doi:10.22158/eshs.v1n2p55

  • 2020

    Barnes, L., Northcote, M., Rickett, C., Lounsbury, L., Arasaratnam-Smith, L. A., Josey, K., & Obers, N. (2020). Women in higher education: The challenge remains, who wears the "pants". Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(12), 6885 - 6892. doi: 10.13189/ujer.2020.081254.

  • 2020

    Joseph, S., Rickett, C., Northcote, M., & Christian, B. J. (2020). Who are you to judge my writing?: Student collaboration in the co-construction of assessment rubrics. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 17(1), 31-49. doi:10.1080/14790726.2019.1566368

  • 2020

    Kilgour, P., Northcote, M., Williams, A. P., & Kilgour, A. (2020). A plan for the co-construction and collaborative use of rubrics for student learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(1), 140-153. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2019.1614523

  • 2019
    A professional learning program for novice online teachers: Application of professional development guidelines using threshold concepts and online learning perceptions
  • 2019
    Peripheries and praxis: the effect of rubric co-construction on student perceptions of their learning
  • 2019
    A professional learning program for novice online teachers using threshold concepts
  • 2019
    A professional learning program for novice online teachers: Application of professional development guidelines using threshold concepts and online learning perceptions
  • 2019

    Kilgour, P., Reynaud, D., Northcote, M., McLoughlin, C., & Gosselin, K. (2019). Threshold concepts about online pedagogy for novice online teachers in higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 38(7), 1417-1431. doi:10.1080/07294360.2018.1450360

  • 2019

    Mitchell, B. G., Northcote, M., Cheng, A. C., Fasugba, O., Russo, P. L., & Rosebrock, H. (2019). Reducing urinary catheter use using an electronic reminder system in hospitalized patients: A randomized stepped-wedge trial. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 40(4), 427-431. doi:10.1017/ice.2019.31

  • 2018
    Transforming Assessment feedback design: students' responses to Adaptively-Released Assessment Feedback (ARAF) Strategies
  • 2018
    An initiative to support first year students and students at risk: The Virtual Mentor Programme
  • 2018
    A health check of Avondale’s distance education program: Where have we been? Where are we going next?
  • 2018

    Fasugba, O., Cheng, A. C., Russo, P. L., Northcote, M., Rosebrock, H., Mitchell, B. G. (2018). Reducing urinary catheter use: A protocol for a mixed methods evaluation of an electronic reminder system in hospitalised patients in Australia. British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open, 8(5): e020469. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020469

  • 2018
    Australian Studies of Videoconference and Video-Assisted Instrumental Music Teaching: What Have We Learned?
  • 2018

    Anderson, M., Mitchell, B. G., Northcote, M., Williams, A., Petrie, K., de Waal, K., . . . Lemke, G. (2018). The construction of a postgraduate student and supervisor support framework: Using stakeholder voices to promote effective postgraduate teaching and learning practice. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 15(2), Article 6. doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0128-y.

  • 2018
    The Virtual Mentor Program: An Initiative to Support First-year Students and Students at Risk
  • 2018
    A Health Check of Avondale's Distance Education Program
  • 2018

    Fasugba, O., Cheng, A. C., Russo, P. L., Northcote, M., Rosebrock, H., Mitchell, B. G. (2018). Reducing urinary catheter use: A protocol for a mixed methods evaluation of an electronic reminder system in hospitalised patients in Australia. British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open, 8(5): e020469. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020469

  • 2018

    Anderson, M., Mitchell, B. G., Northcote, M., Williams, A., Petrie, K., de Waal, K., . . . Lemke, G. (2018). The construction of a postgraduate student and supervisor support framework: Using stakeholder voices to promote effective postgraduate teaching and learning practice. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 15(2), Article 6. doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0128-y.

  • 2018

    Anderson, M., Mitchell, B. G., Northcote, M., Williams, A., Petrie, K., de Waal, K., . . . Lemke, G. (2018). The construction of a postgraduate student and supervisor support framework: Using stakeholder voices to promote effective postgraduate teaching and learning practice. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 15(2), Article 6. doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0128-y.

  • 2018

    Anderson, M., Mitchell, B. G., Northcote, M., Williams, A., Petrie, K., de Waal, K., . . . Lemke, G. (2018). The construction of a postgraduate student and supervisor support framework: Using stakeholder voices to promote effective postgraduate teaching and learning practice. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 15(2), Article 6. doi:10.1007/s10734-017-0128-y.

  • 2017
    Community in online higher education: Challenges and opportunities
  • 2017
    Transforming Assessment Feedback Design: Students' Responses to Adaptively-Released Assessment Feedback (ARAF) Strategies
  • 2017
    Learning thresholds: A journey in online learning and teaching
  • 2017
    Transforming assessment feedback design: Students’ responses to adaptively-released assessment feedback (ARAF) strategies
  • 2016

    Northcote, M., & Marshall, L. (2016). What mathematics calculations do adults do in their everyday lives? Part 1 of a report on the Everyday Mathematics project. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 21(2), 8-17.

  • 2016
    The alchemy of facilitation revealed through individual stories and collective narrative
  • 2016
    Underachieving gifted students: Two case studies
  • 2016

    Gosselin, K. P., Northcote, M., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P., Anderson, M., & Boddey, C. (2016). Development of an evidence-based professional learning program informed by online teachers' self-efficacy and threshold concepts. Online Learning Journal, 20(3), 178-194. doi:10.24059/olj.v20i3.648

  • 2015
    Reynaud, Daniel & Northcote, Maria, ‘The World Wars through tabletop wargaming: An innovative approach to university history teaching,’ Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 2015, 349-367
  • 2015

    Northcote, M., Gosselin, K. P., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P. & Anderson, M. (2015). Navigating the learning journeys of online teachers: Threshold concepts and self-efficacy. Issues in Educational Research, 25(3), 319-344. Retrieved from http://www.iier.org.au/iier25/northcote.pdf

  • 2015

    Sher, W., Williams, A., Northcote, M. (2015). The lived experience of online educators: Insights from construction management. Construction Economics and Building, 15(2), 49-62. doi:10.5130/AJCEB.v15i2.4398

  • 2015

    Northcote, M. (2015). For the technologically challenged: Four free online tools to liven up a mathematics classroom. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 20(2), 22-33.

  • 2015
    The impact of integrated movement-based activities on primary school aged students in the classroom
  • 2015
    Role-playing as a tool to facilitate learning, self reflection and social awareness in teacher education
  • 2015

    Northcote, M., Gosselin, K. P., Reynaud, D., Kilgour, P. & Anderson, M. (2015). Navigating the learning journeys of online teachers: Threshold concepts and self-efficacy. Issues in Educational Research, 25(3), 319-344. Retrieved from http://www.iier.org.au/iier25/northcote.pdf

  • 2015

    Kilgour, P., Reynaud, D., Northcote, M. T., & Shields, M. (2015). Role-playing as a tool to facilitate learning, self-reflection and social awareness in teacher education. International Journal of Innovative Interdisciplinary Research, 2(4), 8-20.

  • 2015

    Reynaud, D., & Northcote, M. (2015). The world wars through tabletop wargaming: An innovative approach to university history teaching. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 349-367. doi:10.1177/1474022214556899

  • 2015
    Kilgour, Peter, Reynaud, Daniel, Northcote, Maria, and Shields, Marion. ‘Role-Playing as a Tool to Facilitate Learning, Self-Reflection and Social Awareness in teacher Education,’ International Journal of Innovative Interdisciplinary Research, 2(4), January 2015, 8-20
  • 2014

    Northcote, M. (2014). Teaching with technology: Up, up and away with parachutes in primary mathematics. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 19(3), 33-38.

  • 2014

    Northcote, M., Kilgour, P., Reynaud, D., & Fitzsimmons, P. (2014). Engaging in Deep Cultural Learning through the Intersection of Multiple Contexts. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(10), 47-63. doi:10.14221/ajte.2014v39n10.4

  • 2013
    Collaborative mentoring: Reflection on the role of TATAL in the aftershock of a HERDSA Fellowship application
  • 2012
    Mathematics on the move: Using mobile technologies to support student learning (Part 2)
  • 2012
    Teaching the lecturers: Academic staff learning about online teaching
  • 2012

    McQuillan, K., Northcote, M.T., & Beamish, P. (2012). What matters most when students and teachers use interactive whiteboards in mathematics classrooms? Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 17(4), 3-7.

  • 2011
    Reynaud, Daniel & Northcote, Maria. ‘Have Passport, Will Learn: History Study Tours and Student Learning and Development,’ in Krause, K., Buckridge, M., Grimmer, C. and Purbrick-Illek, S. (Eds.) Research and Development in Higher Education: Reshaping Higher Education 34, 2011, 253-262
  • 2011
    Step back and hand over the cameras! Using digital cameras to facilitate mathematics learning with young children in K-2 classrooms
  • 2011

    Northcote, M. T., Reynaud, D., Beamish, P., Martin, T., & Gosselin, K. P. (2011). Bumpy moments and joyful breakthroughs: The place of threshold concepts in academic staff development programs about online learning and teaching. ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies, 30(2), 75-89.

  • 2011
    Mathematics on the move: Using mobile technologies to support student learning (Part 1)
  • 2010

    Northcote, M., Mildenhall, P., Marshall, L., & Swan, P. (2010). Interactive whiteboards: Interactive or just whiteboards? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(4), 494-510. Retrieved from https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/1067/327

  • 2009

    Northcote, M. (2009). Educational beliefs of higher education teachers and students: Implications for teacher education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 34(3), 69-81. doi:10.14221/ajte.2009v34n3.3

  • 2009

    Wren, J., Sparrow, H., Northcote, M., & Sharp, S. (2009). Higher education students' perceptions of effective assessment. The International Journal of Learning, 15(12), 11-24. doi:10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v15i12/46037

  • 2008
    Virtual manipulatives on the interactive white board:
  • 2007

    Northcote, M., Marshall, L., Dobozy, E., Swan, P., & Midenhall, P. (2007). Podcasting: Links to literacy teaching and learning. Practically Primary, 12(2), 17-21.

  • 2003
    Online assessment in higher education: The influence of pedagogy on the construction of students' epistemologies
  • 1999

    Northcote, M., & McIntosh, A. (1999). What mathematics do adults really do in everyday life? Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 4(1), 19-21.

  • 1998
    Teaching strategies

Chapters

  • 2021
    Heutagogy and researcher education: Unleashing the power of the novice researcher’s agency
  • 2020
    At the troublesome edge of recognising threshold concepts of online teachers: A proposed learning threshold identification methodology
  • 2020
    At the Troublesome Edge of Recognising Threshold Concepts of Online Teaching
  • 2018
    Integrating the scholarship of teaching, learning and assessment into one institution's homegrown professional learning resources
  • 2018
    How are they going?: A project to monitor student engagement
  • 2018
    Getting on the online education train: The journey of a small higher education institution
  • 2018
    Integrating the scholarship of teaching, learning and assessment into one institution’s homegrown professional learning resources
  • 2016
    From dream to reality. Sustaining a higher education community of practice beyond initial enthusiasm
  • 2016
    Reversing the Tyranny of Distance Education
  • 2009
    The state of pre-service teacher education in the Asia-Pacific region

Conference Publications

  • The sound of _____: The role of pedagogical silence in higher education learning
  • Using the perceptions of online university students to improve the pedagogy and practice of distance educators: Them helping us to improve IT
  • 2022
    Patient perspectives of healthcare associated infection
  • 2021
    TATAL communities of practice support learning for personal/professional growth
  • 2021
    “I have my Fellowship, now what?” Supporting post-award teaching and learning practice, reflexivity and planning
  • 2021
    Learning to be a postgraduate supervisor: A revised professional learning framework
  • 2021
    Learning to be a Postgraduate Supervisor: A Revised Professional Learning Framework
  • 2020
    Is role conflict creating the "nocebo" effect on Accounting education?
  • 2019
    A model of collaborative rubric construction: Lecturers and students learning in partnership
  • 2019
    The challenges of being an accounting academic: What we can learn from the literature bricolage
  • 2019
    Owning the Rubric: Facilitating Rubric Co-construction
  • 2019
    A Model of Collaborative Rubric Construction: Lecturers and Students Learning in Partnership
  • 2018
    Not just a bunch of acronyms: Teaching HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) using PBL (Project Based Learning) in HE (Higher Education)
  • 2018
    Accounting academic workloads in the higher education sector: Balancing workload creep to avoid depreciation
  • 2018
    How engaged are our students? Using analytics to identify students-at-risk
  • 2018
    Online learning in higher education: Comparing teacher and learner perspectives
  • 2018
    The disruptive changing accounting university environment: How accounting academics have been gazumped
  • 2018
    Are they ready? Accounting academics' perspectives of the preparedness of new student cohorts
  • 2018
    Supervising higher degree students: Lecturers learning from their students
  • 2018
    How Engaged are Our Students? Using Analytics to Identify Students At-risk
  • 2018
    How Engaged are our Students? Using Analytics to Identify Students-at-Risk
  • 2018
    Online Learning in Higher Education: Comparing Teacher and Learner Perspectives
  • 2017
    Towards engaging students in curriculum transformation: What are the effective characteristics of rubrics?
  • 2017
    What skills do I need to teach online? Researching experienced teacher views of essential knowledge and skills in online pedagogy as a foundation for developing professional development for novice teachers
  • 2017
    Using threshold concepts about online teaching to support novice online teachers: Designing professional development guidelines to individually assist academic staff (“me”) and collectively guide the institution (“us”)
  • 2017
    Towards engaging students in curriculum transformation: What are the effective characteristics of rubrics?
  • 2016
    Engaging students in the use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): The development of a framework
  • 2016
    Supporting construction management education: Examining the impact of leadership, management and staff development
  • 2016
    Designing an innovative system to evaluate a postgraduate supervision support and development framework
  • 2015
    Pre-service teachers' reflections on critical incidents in their professional teaching experiences
  • 2015
    Research-informed guidelines for the development of adaptively-released assessment feedback (ARAF) strategies in higher education
  • 2015
    Professional development of research supervisors: A capacity-building, participatory approach
  • 2015
    Higher education students' use of technologies for assessment within Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
  • 2015
    Pre-Service Teachers' Reflections on Critical Incidents in their Professional Teaching Experiences
  • 2015
    Does the Type of Assessment Feedback I Give Make a Difference?
  • 2014
    Poetic threshold moments: From fledgling to published author
  • 2014
    Threshold concepts about online teaching: Progress report on a five year project Threshold Concepts in Practice
  • 2014
    Threshold concepts and attitudes in mathematics education: Listening to students' past, present and projected stories
  • 2014
    Opening doors for improved doctoral student progress: Thresholds concepts for crossing the research barrier
  • 2014
    Does the type of assessment feedback I give make a difference?: The impact of qualitative and quantitative assessment feedback
  • 2014
    The Researcher’s Little Helper: The design of an enabling online resource for postgraduate students and their supervisors
  • 2014
    Using the self-determined learning principles of heutagogy to support academic staff who are learning to teach online
  • 2014
    If ‘poetry is more a threshold than a path’ then what should students unlearn to help with crossing over?
  • 2014
    Threshold Concepts about Online Teaching: Progress Report on a Five Year Project
  • 2013
    Highlighting heutagogy in self-directional online resources for professional learning
  • 2013
    Dreams, hiccups and realities: What happens when lecturers and students co-design an online module?
  • 2013
    Cross-continental research collaborations about online teaching
  • 2013

    Anderson, A., Barham, N. & Northcote, M (2013). Using the TPACK framework to unite disciplines in online learning. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 29(4), 549-565. doi:10.14742/ajet.24

  • 2012
    Separating the chaff from the wheat: Threshold concepts in higher education assessment
  • 2012
    I hate maths and maths hates me! Analysing the development of threshold concepts and attitudes in preservice mathematics teacher education
  • 2012
    Selecting criteria to evaluate qualitative research
  • 2012
    The World Wars through Wargaming: An experiment in university History teaching
  • 2011
    MOOBRIC: A rubric of Moodle skills and knowledge
  • 2011
    Mixing it up: Informal and formal strategies for teaching, research and professional learning in Moodle
  • 2011
    Benchmark yourself: Self-reflecting about online teaching
  • 2011
    Have passport, will learn: History study tours and student learning and development
  • 2010
    Transforming online curricula, transforming staff.
  • 2010
    Bumpy moments and joyful breakthroughs: The place of threshold concepts in academic staff development programs about online learning and teaching
  • 2010
    Online teacher presence: Walking the tightrope between pedagogical and technological concerns
  • 2010
    Lighting up and transforming online courses: Letting the teacher’s personality shine
  • 2009
    From small to large hits: Spreading the online message to academic and administrative staff via strategically-targeted development activities
  • 2008
    Higher education students’ perceptions of effective assessment
  • 2008
    Sense of place in online learning environments
  • 2007
    Tuning into podcasts: Collaborative research into the value adding nature of podcasts in teacher education
  • 2006
    New metaphors for teaching and learning in a university context
  • 2003
    Assessment online: New horizons and blue skies
  • 2003
    The development of an Educational Belief Inventory for university students and teachers: Construing each others' beliefs
  • 2002
    On-line journeys: The story of construction of on-line units in an Indigenous University Orientation Course
  • 2002
    Devising strategies for enhancing quality staff development in embedding ICT in teaching and learning
  • 2001
    Informal online networks for learning: Making use of incidental learning through recreation
  • 2001
    Online assessment criteria in action: Task design in contrasting tertiary education contexts
  • 2001
    Design influences in the creation of an online mathematics unit for Indigenous adults
  • 2001
    Communication skills for online students: An evaluation of a website
  • 2001
    Use of cognitive tools as support mechanisms for adult Indigenous learners in an online mathematics unit
  • 2001
    Instructional design partnerships across universities: Motivations, methods and measures
  • 2001
    A model for online unit development: Necessity, the catalyst for invention
  • 2000
    Written communication skills for online learning
  • 2000
    Interface design for better learning: How to minimise navigational problems and impenetrable screen design in online learning environments
  • 2000
    The struggle for balance in the use of quantitative and qualitative online assessment tasks
  • 2000
    Online assessment techniques for Indigenous learners

Creative Works

Research Report for External Bodies

  • 2019
    Owning the Rubric: Student engagement in rubric design and use: Project ID16-5374 (Final Report)
  • 2019
    Owning the Rubric: Student engagement in rubric design and use
  • 2017
    Using online teaching threshold concepts in transformative professional learning curricula for novice online educators: Final report [Project SD15-5203]

Other

  • 2016
    Designed and Delivered Avondale’s First Online Webinar on ARAF Strategies (Innovative Assessment) - Webinar
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