Rate My Professor Arpana Dhar

Dr. Arpana Dhar is a Lecturer in the Curtin School of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She is also part of the teaching staff at Curtin Medical School. Dhar earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Curtin University in 2019, with her thesis titled "Co-Teaching in Health Sciences in Higher Education" supervised by Professor David Treagust and Dr. Georgina Fyfe in the Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Faculty of Humanities. Her doctoral research investigated students' and co-teachers' perceptions and experiences of co-teaching in higher education environments, focusing on health sciences programs. She developed the Co-teaching Perception and Experience Survey (CPES) instrument to evaluate co-teaching settings and enhance collaborative teaching practices. Early in her academic career, Dhar collaborated on research exploring the influence of teachers' beliefs on student outcomes, presenting a case study at the 7th SMTE Conference in 2012 with Rekha Koul.