Abstract Guidelines & Resources

Examples of Types of topics/abstract topics

Assessment is a broad topic encompassing much of what we do as educators. It involves using feedback, evidence of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to inform development of curriculum, activities, teaching, supports and evidence of progression.

It could include any of the following:

  • peer feedback opportunities amongst students, mentoring, ongoing feedback in response to clinical assessment/pre-clinical assessment,
  • how we prepare students for assessment, what activities we do to engage students with content to prepare for assessment/clinical practice, assessment design, rubric design, examples of what didn’t work well, what did, how we had tried to address problems, course feedback,
  • how we use reflection and feedback to shape and develop our teaching- materials and programs, evaluation surveys, SES data, what assessments people are doing in other programs- (what work, what don’t),
  • how can we collaborate to address some of these challenges, benchmarking, have we kept any changes that were implemented during covid, innovations in simulation and student experiences with this, OSCEs, portfolios, clinical assessments,
  • how do we give feedback? How do we handle assessment when students are on clinical placement to ensure goals of course are being met, how do we store the feedback data we collect and what do we do with it? Are we evaluating are teaching? How are we evaluating it?

Almost all of our teaching and learning activities would fit well into any of these categories! 

There will be awards and prizes for Oral and Poster presentations! We are excited to hear what the Universities are doing in this space- and encourage everyone to submit an abstract.

There are 3 categories:

  1. Workshops (90 Minutes)

    This category is for interactive sessions with participants that focus on developing skills in a particular area of assessment. Please submit an EOI by following the Guidelines for submission of an EOI for workshops attached.

  2. Oral Presentations

    For this category, abstracts topics must be in accordance with the COHA program ‘Focus on Assessment, what, why and how?’ Please see abstract format and layout guidelines attached.

    5 minute rapid fire presentation:

    • This format is similar to a three-minute thesis (3MT) style of presentation, that builds on a classic “elevator pitch”. This presentation follows different rules to traditional scientific presentations, and should be focused around communicating several key messages. The challenge in this type of presentation is to explain your research clearly and concisely to an intelligent non-specialist audience in under 3 minutes. You can only have 1-3 slides for this type of presentation.

    15-30 minutes presentation:

    • This format follows a more traditional style of scientific presentation. On notification of outcome, applicants will be advised if they have a 15 minute or 30 minute length.
  3. Poster Presentations
    • For this category abstracts can be research that does not fit with the conference theme. The purpose of the posters is to showcase the breadth of activities amongst COHA members. You may want to present a poster created by students you have supervised to showcase student work. Please see abstract format and layout guidelines below.

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Instructions for Submission of Abstracts and EOI Submission

  1. Abstracts must be submitted by a COHA member.
  2. Read the submission guidelines for your chosen category below carefully.
  3. Submit your abstract by clicking on this link- COHA 2022 Abstract and EOI Submission Form or click on the QR code
  4. Abstract Submission will close on the 21st of October 5pm.
  5. Notifications of outcomes will be distributed via email by on the 28th of October.

For any questions regarding the above process, please contact Bree Jones

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Presentation Guidelines

1. Workshops EOI Guidelines

Workshop Title

The workshop title should be within a maximum of 120 characters. The title should be informative and contain the major key words.

Presenters 
The format for authors (including co-authors) is first name, then surname. The presenting author should be listed first and underlined. Affiliations of authors should be included using superscript numbers. Author's institution should be specified indicating the name of the institution, followed by city, state, and country. Do not include degrees or professional titles (E.g. Dr., Prof., etc.)

Body

This section must include the overall purpose/aims of the workshop with justification for how it relates to the conference theme. Please provide 3 objectives and an overview of proposed workshop activity/ies.

2. Oral Presentation & Poster Guidelines

Title

The abstract title should be within a maximum of 120 characters. The title should be informative and contain the major key words.

Presenters
The format for authors (including co-authors) is first name, then surname. The presenting author should be listed first and underlined. Affiliations of authors should be included using superscript numbers. Author's institution should be specified indicating the name of the institution, followed by city, state, and country. Do not include degrees or professional titles (E.g. Dr., Prof., etc.)

Body
The body of the abstract should be no more than 250 words. This should be a summary of the research to be presented. Abstracts must include background, methods, results/outcomes and conclusion. Abstracts may include original research and results, protocols, quality improvement project, innovation, project design & implementation, case/reports.

COVIDSafe plans

  • Face masks

    The University continues to follow Victorian public health orders for face masks. You must carry a face mask at all times and wear one as required under current COVIDSafe Settings.

    The Victorian Department of Health strongly recommends wearing a mask indoors and whenever you cannot physically distance. The University encourages everyone to follow this advice to help reduce the transmission of airborne viruses (all existing exemptions continue to apply).

    Face masks will no longer be expected in classroom settings, however they continue to be strongly recommended indoors and whenever people cannot physically distance.

  • Cleaning and sanitising

    The University has implemented enhanced infection control and cleaning measures across all facilities, including:

    • More frequent cleaning and disinfection by professional cleaning staff
    • Self-service infection control measures, such as 2500+ touch-free hand sanitiser dispensers and 3000+ alcohol wipe dispensers
    • Additional deep cleaning, disinfection and site closures as needed in response to a confirmed case of COVID-19
  • Physical distancing
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    The University has reviewed buildings for adequacy of ventilation capacity and introduced a variety of measures to reduce the risk of indoor transmission of COVID-19, including:

    • Increasing ventilation by mechanical or natural means where necessary
    • Where the system is unable to ensure to adequate air intake and exchange, other mitigations, such as portable air purifiers have been deployed
    • Real-time monitoring of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels as a proxy to evaluate airborne virus risk and adequate fresh air supply – monitors have been installed in teaching spaces and some other spaces to actively monitor air quality
    • Encouraging greater use of outdoor spaces

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Refund, Cancellation and Substitution Policy

  • Cancellation Policy
    • All registrations are subject to the cancellation policy. Cancellations must be made in writing by the deadline date; telephone cancellations will NOT be accepted. Refunds or credits will not be given for failure to attend events. Refunds will be processed no later than 8 weeks after the meeting.

      DEADLINE DATE:

      On or before November 4th 2022: Refund less $50 AUD cancellation fee.

      All refund requests and requests must be completed by emailing mds-researchsupport@unimelb.edu.au with header COHA 2022 REFUND REQUEST

  • Refund Policy

    Refunds will be processed no later than 8 weeks after the meeting.

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