Thursday, 08 March, 2012

Dr. Payyazhi Jayashree, Associate Professor, UOWD won the Best Paper Award at the ANZAM Conference.Dr Jayashree's award win was in the Management Education and Development Stream at the 25th Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference. The award included a prize of $500, a plaque and a certificate.The Conference theme was ‘The future of work and organizations’ and as per practice all papers went through a rigorous double-blind review process before being accepted.Dr. Jayashree received the Award for her paper titled “Changing mind sets: stimulating learning through innovative case assessment involving peers” co-written with Mitra, S and supported in data collection by Rabah,I.The study examined "the effect of introducing an innovative case challenge component together with conventional case presentation, on student self and deep learning capacity resulting from increased formative self and peer evaluation."