Publications by authors named "Robyn M Gillies"
Background: Australia hosts over 680,000 international students, contributing $47.8 billion to the Australian economy in 2023, and Chinese students rank first among all nationalities. However, despite their considerable numbers, research focusing on their access to healthcare services is scant.
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- This study focused on the specialty choices of international medical students in China, primarily from low- and middle-income countries, and how their migration plans affect these choices.
- A questionnaire was distributed to 452 students from five universities, examining their demographic info, migration intentions, and specialty preferences; general surgery was the most chosen specialty, while physical medicine and rehabilitation was the least preferred.
- Results indicated that half of the students did not intend to return to their home countries; gender influenced specialty choices, with male students favoring generalist specialties and female students leaning towards non-generalist ones.
Teachers' and students' verbal behaviours during cooperative and small-group learning.
Br J Educ Psychol
June 2006
Background: Teachers play a critical role in promoting interactions between students and engaging them in the learning process. This study builds on a study by Hertz-Lazarowitz and Shachar (1990) who found that during cooperative learning teachers' verbal behaviours were more helpful to and encouraging of their students' efforts while during whole-class instruction, their verbal behaviours tended to be more authoritarian, rigid, and impersonal.
Aim: This study seeks to determine if teachers who implement cooperative learning engage in more facilitative learning interactions with their students than teachers who implement group work only.