Australian Catholic University

When opposition leaders speak: personalisation and question time in Australia

Question Time is a highly visible and adversarial parliamentary arena central to executive accountability, yet increasing personalisation may redirect scrutiny from collective party actors to individual leaders. This article analyses personalisation in Australian Question Time us...

Is Set for Variability Performance Dependent on Prior Successful Decoding Attempts for Certain Items? An Item-Level Examination

Purpose: The relationship between the set for variability (SfV) task and various isolated word reading measures in developing readers is high (ranging from .60 to .80 across studies). Elbro et al. (2012) offered that SfV skill serves as a second step in the decoding process allow...

Beyond the protocol: navigating ethics and governance in the multicentre implementation trials – the QASC Australasia and T3 Trials

OBJECTIVE: To describe and compare ethics and governance approval timelines for the Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) Australasia Trial (2021-present) and Triage, Treatment, and Transfer of Patients with Stroke in Emergency Departments (T3) Trial (2012-2014), benchmarking again...

Skill acquisition specialists in coach learning systems: Coach developer perspectives on roles and tensions

Coaches often rely solely on experiential knowledge to facilitate skill acquisition. Coach developers may offer unique insights on the role of skill acquisition specialists in supporting coach learning in this area. This study explored high-performance coach developers’ reflectio...

From Gradual Release of Responsibility to Gradual Release of Technology: A Case for the Staged Use of AI in Formal Education

Debate over the role of generative artificial intelligence in formal education is marked by sharply divergent claims about its effects on student learning. Much of this disagreement reflects a failure to distinguish immediate performance gains from durable learning. This article...

Information environments, epistemic selves, and life’s end

Abstract This paper examines how information environments shape individuals in the construction of what we dub epistemic selfhood. Using euthanasia as an illustration, we argue that end-of-life decision-making potentially suffers from this process when epistemic selfhood is malfo...

Defining and Measuring Developmental Regression During Childhood: A Scoping Review

ABSTRACT Developmental regression during childhood is inconsistently defined and measured, resulting in delayed diagnostic discovery and intervention. This study aimed to examine published definitions and measures for developmental regression. A comprehensive search strategy was...

Head Acceleration Event Probabilities During Standardised Contact Drills in Academy Men's Rugby League

ABSTRACT This study investigated head acceleration event (HAE) probabilities between common contact‐drills in rugby league. Fifteen professional male academy players participated in three training sessions, completing standardised contact‐drills while wearing custom‐fitted iMGs,...

Theophilus of Antioch’s Gospel Harmony: Jerome, the Book of Saint James , and Canon Formation

Enigmatic passages in Jerome’s Letter to Algasia and the 12th century Book of Saint James have led scholars to attribute a Gospel harmony to Theophilus of Antioch. This lost harmony has played an increasingly important role in recent attempts to date the four-Gospel canon to the...

Terminology for describing the 24-h cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep: a scoping review

Abstract Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep are three behaviours which occupy the 24-h cycle and interact to influence a multitude of health outcomes. Different terms are currently used to describe these behaviours collectively (e.g., movement behaviours...