Rick Cummings

Publications

1.1 Monographs

English, B., Straton, R.G. & Cummings, R. (2002) Principles for evaluating community crime prevention projects. Canberra: Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.

1.1.1 Chapters in Monographs

Cummings, R., Ballantyne, C. & Fowler, L. (2001) Online student feedback surveys: encouraging staff and student use. In E. Santhanam (Ed) Student Feedback on Teaching: Reflections and Projections, Evaluation of Teaching Unit, UWA: Perth WA.

1.2 Conference Proceedings

Cummings, R. (Ed) (1999) Evaluation: Challenging Boundaries. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Australasian Evaluation Society. Perth: Australasian Evaluation Society.

1.3 Evaluation and Research Reports

Cummings, R., Aquilina, H. & Coldrick, B. (2005) Evaluation Study of the CIP2 Professional Learning Program: Final Report. Prepared for the Department of Education and Training.

Cummings, R.J., Aquilina, H. & Bridge, K. (2005) Review of the Aboriginal School Based Traineeship, Final Report for the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R. (2005) Operation Burglary Countdown: Evaluation Study Final Report. Prepared for the Office of Crime Prevention, Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Aquilina, H., Cummings, R. & Kapiteyn, A. (2005) Evaluation Study of the Early Years Strategy: Final Report. Prepared for the Department of Community Development.

Lake, D., Phillips, R., Lowe, K., Cummings, R., Schibeci, R. & Miller, E. (2004) Report of Field Review Stage 1: The Le@rning Federation Pilot Field Review. Melbourne: The Learning Federation, [Online] Available at http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/repo/cms2/tlf/published/8620/tlfwa_report_final.pdf

Cummings, R.J. & Aquilina, H. (2004) Evaluation Study of the Quality Teacher Program in Western Australia, Final Report for the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Aquilina, H. (2003) Evaluation Study of the Quality Teacher Program in Western Australia, 2002 Annual Report for the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Aquilina, H. (2003) Evaluation of the use of the 2002 Western Australian Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (WALNA). A report for the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Aquilina, H. (2003) Evaluation of the Standards and Teachers Judgements Trial. A final report for the Western Australia Department Education and Training, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J., Ballantyne, C. & Hobson-Mabbs, S. (2003) Evaluation of the Leadership Enhancement Program 2002. Final Report for the WA Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Cummings, R.J. & Moir, S. (2003) Evaluation Study of the Implementation of Initiatives in the Government's Response to the WA State Homelessness Taskforce. A report for the Department of Community Development of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Aquilina, H. (2002) Evaluation Study of the Quality Teacher Program in Western Australia, 2001 Annual Report for the Education Department of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Cummings R. & Bennett, K. (2000) Evaluation Study of Local Management of Schools Pilot Program – Interim Report. Education Department of Western Australia.

Cummings R. & Bennett, K. (2000) Evaluation Study of Local Management of Schools Pilot Program – Final Report. Education Department of Western Australia.

English, B., Cummings, R. & Straton, R.G. (1999) Evaluation models for community crime prevention Final Report. Institute for Social Programme Evaluation, Murdoch University.

English, B. & Cummings, R. (1997) Survey of Vocational Education and Training Services in Rural and Remote Western Australia. Institute for Social Programme Evaluation, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R. & Ho, K. (1997) Survey of Graduates of Biology Undergraduate and Honours Programmes at Murdoch University from 1990 to 1994. Academic Services Unit, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R. & Ho, K. (1997) Survey of Employers of Graduates of Biology Undergraduate and Honours Programmes at Murdoch University from 1990 to 1994. Academic Services Unit, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R. & Fritz, P. (1996) Survey of Employers of Graduates of Environmental Science Undergraduate and Honours Programmes at Murdoch University from 1990 to 1994. Academic Services Unit, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R. & Fritz, P. (1996) Survey of Graduates of Environmental Science Undergraduate and Honours Programmes at Murdoch University from 1990 to 1994. Academic Services Unit, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R. & Ho, R. (1996) Survey of Key Competencies in Selected Industries in Western Australia. Academic Services Unit, Murdoch University.

Cummings, R.J. (1995) Managing the External Evaluation Process: A Practical Guide. Public Sector Management Office, Western Australian Government,.

Stanley, G. & Cummings, R.J. (1991) Review of the Pilbara Colleges: Report on Hedland and Karratha Colleges Report to the Minister for Employment and Training.

Stanley, G. & Cummings, R.J. (1991) Review of the Pilbara Colleges: Report on Pundulmurra College Report to the Minister for Employment and Training.

Cummings, R. (1988) A Review of Evaluation Studies in the Australian Traineeship System. WA Department of Employment and Training.

1.4 Commissioned Reports

Cummings, R.J. & Robertson, R. (2002) International Literature Review of Lifelong Learning Policies and Frameworks. A report for the Western Australian Department of Training, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Robertson, R. (2002) International Literature Review of Attitudes to Learning in Vocational Education and Training. A report for the Western Australian Department of Training, Perth, WA.

Cummings, R.J. & Bennett, K. (2000) Review of Selected Literature Relevant to Local Management of Schools, Education Department of WA, Perth.

English, B., Straton, R.G. & Cummings, R. (1998) Evaluation models for community crime prevention: conceptual foundations. Institute for Social Programme Evaluation, Murdoch University.

1.5 Refereed Publications

Cummings, R. (2006) 'What if': the counterfactual in program evaluation. Journal of the Australasian Evaluation Society. Australasian Evaluation Society Inc., 6(2), pp. 6-15.

Schibeci, R., Lake, D., Phillips, R., Lowe, K., Cummings, R. & Miller, E. (2006) Evaluating the use of learning objects in Australian and New Zealand schools. Computers & Education: In Press.

Cummings, R., Phillips, R., Tilbrook, R. & Lowe, K. (2005) Middle-Out Approaches to Reform of University Teaching and Learning: Champions Striding between the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Special volume, March 2005. Available at: http://www.irrodl.org/content/v6.1/cummings.html.

Cummings, R. & Angwin, T. (2005) Putting Burglary Down for the Count: How Operation Burglary Countdown is dramatically reducing residential burglary in Perth's burglary hot spots. Submitted to the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Cummings, R. & Angwin, T. (2005) Burglar Beware: WA's response to the challenge of being the Burglary Capital of Australia Submitted to the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Phillips, R. A., Cummings, R., Lowe, K. & Jonas-Dwyer, D. (2004) Rethinking Flexible Learning in a Distributed Learning Environment: A university-wide initiative. Educational Media International, 41(3), 195-205.

English, B.J., Cummings, R. & Straton, R.G. (2002) Choosing an Evaluation Model for Community Crime Prevention Programs. In: N. Tilley(ed.), Evaluation for Crime Prevention, (Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 14) Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

Cummings, R., Stephenson, K. & Hale, L. Using program theory in an educational setting: What can we learn from it? Evaluation Journal of Australasian, vol 1 No 1, (new series), April 2001

Cummings, R. & English, B. A framework for selecting an appropriate design for a program evaluation study. Evaluation News and Comment, vol 7 No 2, Melbourne, December 1998.

1.6 Conference Papers

Cummings, R. & Lowe, K. (2005) Assessing Graduate Attributes to Enhance Teaching and Learning. Paper presented at the 1st Conference on Assessment for Enhancing Teaching and Learning, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Cummings, R. & Angwin, T. Putting Burglary Down for the Count: How Operation Burglary Countdown is dramatically reducing residential burglary in Perth's burglary hot spots. Paper presented at the 2005 Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Wellington NZ.

Cummings, R. & Angwin, T. (2005) Burglar Beware: WA's response to the challenge of being the Burglary Capital of Australia. Paper presented at the 2005 Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Wellington NZ.

Cummings, R., Gougoulis, J. & Aquilina, H. (2004) Understanding Partners: the basis of a sustainable evaluator-client relationship. Paper presented at the 2004 Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Auckland, NZ.

Cummings, R.J. (2003) Rethinking Evaluation as a Learning Process: Potential Benefits for All. Keynote Address, 2003 Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Auckland, NZ.

Cummings R.J., Ballantyne, C. & Collings, D. (2003) Evaluating the Experience of University Graduates: What is the use? Paper presented at the 2003 Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Auckland, NZ.

Cummings, R.J. (2003) Equivalent assessment: achievable reality or pipedream. Paper presented at the 2003 Evaluations and Assessment Conference, Adelaide, South Australia.

Cummings, R.J. (2002) Rethinking evaluation use. Paper presented at the 2002 Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Wollongong, NSW.

Cummings, R.J. (1999) Stakeholder involvement: a foundation for evaluation use. Paper presented at the American Evaluation Association Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Cummings, R. How should we assess and report student generic attributes? An Assessment Dilemma. Teaching and Learning Forum, University of Western Australia, 4-5 February 1998.

Cummings, R. Policy issues related to flexible modes of delivery of VET. Paper presented at Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference, Sydney, February 1998.

Cummings, R. & English, B. A framework for selecting an appropriate design for a programme evaluation study. Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Melbourne, October 1998.

Cummings R. Increasing the use of evaluation information. Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Adelaide, SA, October, 1998

Cummings, R. & Ho, R. Assessment and reporting of student generic qualities in higher education. HERDSA Annual International Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 8-11 July 1997.

Cummings, R. Increasing the use of evaluation information. Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference, Adelaide, October 1997.

Cummings, R. Making evaluation count. Paper presented at the Australasian Evaluation Society State Conference, Perth, WA 18 September 1996.

Cummings, R. A Virtual Campus in the Australian Outback. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Pedagogy, State University of New York, 1996.

Cummings, R.J. The Evaluator-Decision-maker Relationship and its Influence on Information Utilization: Results of a Meta-Analysis. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Australia Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, 1989.

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