Professor Ian Macdonald
Education
1976-79 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Monash University
1983-84 Post Graduate Diploma in Education. Monash University
1985-1990 Master of Education Studies. Monash University. Major project title "Student Awareness of Learning Strategies", dealing with the enhancement of student learning within a school environment by educating the learner about the processes involved, and so being more purposeful.
1990-93 Ph.D, Monash University. Studied part time during the research phase in 1990-91, and full time while writing up in 1992-93. The thesis was in the cognitive psychology domain, dealing with metacognition in learning: title "Enhancing Learning by Informed Student Decision Making on Learning Strategy Use". A brief overview of the research and its outcomes was published as Self directed student learning: No longer a dream? in The Journal of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia.
[The Victorian chapter of the Australian Council of Education listed my Ph.D. thesis as one of its outstanding theses of 1995]
1995-96 Completed four undergraduate Psychology subjects at Swinburne University as part of the psychology major (HD, D, D and Credit), but became too busy to finish the sequence required to gain registration with the APS (I already have a Masters and Doctorate in psychology supervised by a psychologist, but the APS requires the undergraduate sequence as well).
AVCC Senior Leadership Course, Mt Eliza Business College, September 2006.
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