Rate My Professor Joanne Dargusch

At CQUniversity, she has held positions including lecturer, Head of Course, Unit Coordinator, acting Deputy Dean Research for the School of Education and the Arts, and Postgraduate Research Coordinator. As the university's lead in a national consortium implementing the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment, coordinated by Australian Catholic University, she advances initial teacher education standards. Her research informs curriculum in CQUniversity's Graduate Certificate in Tertiary and Adult Education and Bachelor of Education (Secondary), and she disseminates findings via publications, conference presentations, and workshops. Notable works include "Catering for 'very different kids': distance education teachers’ perspectives on technology’s affordances and constraints when supporting distance education learning" (2021), "Re-imagining exams: How do assessment adjustments impact on inclusion?" (2022), "Low socioeconomic status students transitioning from Vocational Education and Training to university: Examining definitions of success" (2023), and leading the ACSES Small Grant project "Time for a rethink: Assessment policy to enable equity" (2023). She received the 2017 Dean's Research Award for Early Career Researcher from the School of Education and the Arts.