Louise Horstmanshof
Biographic Data
| ID | 2746360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Horstmanshof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Horstmanshof |
| SIGNATURE | HORSTMANSHOF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0749-1231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Building and examining research capability in Australian health students
Research honours programs are traditionally used in Australian universities to build and evaluate research capacity in undergraduate health students.The effectiveness of such programs in achieving this in the current higher education landscape has not recently been explored.This mixed methods study examined 66 health research honours programs.Webpage, survey and interview data were gathered to examine the learning outcomes, pedagogical approaches…
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions
The Australian honours research degree plays an important role as a pre-requisite for direct entry into doctoral research programmes. The honours degree training is particularly important to health disciplines where there is a growing recognition of the importance of research training to embed evidence-based approaches to practice. This study explored current availability and uptake, delivery features and resourcing of the Australian health honou…
A realist evaluation of a regional Dementia Health Literacy Project
BACKGROUND: A Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Australia, after it was identified as having a high prevalence of dementia. A Dementia Support Kit was produced with service user engagement to provide useful information to people with dementia and their families. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Dementia Health Literacy Project using a realist evaluation framework. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The setting was…
A scaffolded approach to Discussion Board use for formative assessment of academic writing skills
Mastery of academic writing skills remains one of the greatest challenges for university students, especially in the first year. Amongst the reasons offered for the challenges are lack of clarity about the university’s expectations and low levels of teacher feedback on work submitted, a failure to engage, and low levels of contact with teaching staff and other students. Academic staff are challenged by increased class numbers and increased studen…
Future time orientation predicts academic engagement among first-year university students
Background. Enhancing student engagement is considered an important strategy for improving retention. Students' Time Perspective is an under-researched factor that may significantly influence student engagement.Aims. This study examines interrelationships between elements of student engagement and relationship with Time Perspective. We propose that there are significant relationships between psychological and behavioural elements of student engag…
Deaf People Communicating via SMS, TTY, Relay Service, Fax, and Computers in Australia
Despite the expansion of Deaf people's use of communication technology little is published about how they use electronic communication in their social and working lives and the implications for their concepts of identity and community. Australia is an ideal research base because the use of a range of technologies is widespread there. To gain access to a wide age range of people who identify as Deaf, members of the national organization, the Austr…
Future time orientation predicts academic engagement among first-year university students
Background. Enhancing student engagement is considered an important strategy for improving retention. Students' Time Perspective is an under-researched factor that may significantly influence student engagement.Aims. This study examines interrelationships between elements of student engagement and relationship with Time Perspective. We propose that there are significant relationships between psychological and behavioural elements of student engag…
Deaf People Communicating via SMS, TTY, Relay Service, Fax, and Computers in Australia
Despite the expansion of Deaf people's use of communication technology little is published about how they use electronic communication in their social and working lives and the implications for their concepts of identity and community. Australia is an ideal research base because the use of a range of technologies is widespread there. To gain access to a wide age range of people who identify as Deaf, members of the national organization, the Austr…
Future time orientation predicts academic engagement among first-year university students
Background. Enhancing student engagement is considered an important strategy for improving retention. Students' Time Perspective is an under-researched factor that may significantly influence student engagement.Aims. This study examines interrelationships between elements of student engagement and relationship with Time Perspective. We propose that there are significant relationships between psychological and behavioural elements of student engag…
A scaffolded approach to Discussion Board use for formative assessment of academic writing skills
Mastery of academic writing skills remains one of the greatest challenges for university students, especially in the first year. Amongst the reasons offered for the challenges are lack of clarity about the university’s expectations and low levels of teacher feedback on work submitted, a failure to engage, and low levels of contact with teaching staff and other students. Academic staff are challenged by increased class numbers and increased studen…
A realist evaluation of a regional Dementia Health Literacy Project
BACKGROUND: A Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Australia, after it was identified as having a high prevalence of dementia. A Dementia Support Kit was produced with service user engagement to provide useful information to people with dementia and their families. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Dementia Health Literacy Project using a realist evaluation framework. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: The setting was…
Challenges of delivering Australian research honours programmes for healthcare professions
The Australian honours research degree plays an important role as a pre-requisite for direct entry into doctoral research programmes. The honours degree training is particularly important to health disciplines where there is a growing recognition of the importance of research training to embed evidence-based approaches to practice. This study explored current availability and uptake, delivery features and resourcing of the Australian health honou…
Building and examining research capability in Australian health students
Research honours programs are traditionally used in Australian universities to build and evaluate research capacity in undergraduate health students.The effectiveness of such programs in achieving this in the current higher education landscape has not recently been explored.This mixed methods study examined 66 health research honours programs.Webpage, survey and interview data were gathered to examine the learning outcomes, pedagogical approaches…
Psychology (6 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Health and Medical Research Impacts (2 works) · Health care (2 works)