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Jo-ann Larkins

Mrs. Jo-ann Larkins

Senior Lecturer, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

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jo-ann.larkins@federation.edu.au +61 (3) 51228920

Campus

Churchill Campus

Biography

Jo-ann Larkins is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at Federation University Australia who has made it her mission to make mathematics and statistics interesting, useful and less intimidating.

As an applied statistician, Jo-ann is a problem solver who specialises in mentoring others in statistical analysis of larger multivariate data sets and preparing HDR students to undertake independent quantitative research.

Jo-ann's research interests lie in mathematics education, particularly in the impacts of anxiety and students’ level of preparedness in undertaking tertiary mathematics and statistics courses. She explores curriculum as a vehicle to embed authenticity and workready skills in students while reducing anxiety and increasing their self-reflective metacognitive processes.

Jo-ann's primary professional focus over the last 20 years has been on achieving quality teaching and learning outcomes for students. She specialises in engaging and mentoring first year students in a range of faculties with their initial studies of statistics and basic mathematics.

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Assessing Soil Indicator Practices: Determinants and Variations Among Australian Farmers

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DOI reference: 10.1111/sum.70196

Factors Associated With Length of Stay and Readmission Rates for Older Hospital in the Home Patients: A Systematic Review

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DOI reference: 10.1177/08982643251329425

Are planting site conditions more important than soil amendments when direct seeding in the semiarid Mallee in regional Victoria, Australia?

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DOI reference: 10.1111/rec.70087

Life Extension of long-life assets using risk informed decision making

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Hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses examining length of stay and admission rates across Victorian Local Government Areas

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DOI reference: 10.1186/s12982-025-01223-z

Evaluation of LAMP for Fasciola hepatica detection from faecal samples of experimentally and naturally infected cattle

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2024.110132

Our cheating is not your cheating: signature misconduct exemplified in mathematics

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DOI reference: 10.1080/02602938.2024.2342921

We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs

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DOI reference: 10.1038/s41562-023-01621-w

Matching the model to the available data to predict wheat, barley, or canola yield: A review of recently published models and data

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103749

Why have eight researcher women in STEMM left academic research, and where did they go?

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DOI reference: 10.1080/1360144X.2021.1972304

Developing a framework for generating realistic, but not real, synthetic maintenance records

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DOI reference: 10.1109/ICMIAM56779.2022.10146736

Presence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli, Enterococcusspp. and Salmonellasp. in 12 species of Australian shorebirds and terns

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DOI reference: 10.1111/zph.12950

Validation Framework of Bayesian Networks in Asset Management Decision-Making

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DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-030-93639-6_31

Seeking Approval from Universities to Research the Views of Their Staff. Do Gatekeepers Provide a Barrier to Ethical Research?

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DOI reference: 10.1177/15562646211068316

Burnout, stress and resilience of an Australian regional hospital during COVID-19: a longitudinal study

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DOI reference: 10.1186/s12913-022-08409-0

Decision-making in complex asset life extension

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DOI reference: 10.1109/ICMIAM54662.2021.9715202

A survey of early-career researchers in Australia

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DOI reference: 10.7554/eLife.60613

Delivery and assessment of a systems analysis course during COVID-19

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Salmonella enterica Serovar Hvittingfoss in Bar-Tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) from Roebuck Bay, Northwestern Australia

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DOI reference: 10.1128/AEM.01312-20

Foundations of the DEFT Project: tertiary educators Developing Expertise Fostering Thinking

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DOI reference: 10.30722/IJISME.28.02.001

The meaning of 'worried' in MET call activations: A regional hospital examination of the clinical indicator

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2018.11.002

Wild Australian birds and drug-resistant bacteria: characterisation of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp

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DOI reference: 10.1080/01584197.2019.1591162

Farmer satisfaction with policing in rural Victoria, Australia

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DOI reference: 10.18061/1811/88724

Reducing Residential Burglary in Victoria: Trial of Traceable Liquid Property Marking

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Adult Deterioration Detection System (ADDS): An evaluation of the impact on MET and Code blue activations in a regional healthcare service

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2017.05.002

THE “DEFT” PROJECT

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A high burden of asymptomatic gastrointestinal infections in traditional communities in Papua New Guinea

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DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0282

Students created notes as an exam aid: A cross disciplinary content analysis

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Implementing student centred learning in a traditional tertiary environment

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The impact of discussion board usage on overall performance in an introductory accounting subject

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DOI reference: 10.1108/PAR-01-2015-0001

Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for the detection of rotavirus, norovirus and adenovirus from children hospitalized with acute watery diarrhoea

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A study of indoor and outdoor nitrogen dioxide concentrations at student residences

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Is the evolution of biochemistry texts decreasing fitness? A case study of pedagogical error in bioenergetics

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The probability isotherm: an intuitive non-equilibrium thermodynamic framework for biochemical kinetics

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Benefits of the scientific method to business and how business and science can learn from each other;

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Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of Papua New Guineans Using Reverse Transcription Quantitative PCR

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DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117427

Qualified nurses' rate new nursing graduates as lacking skills in key clinical areas

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DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.13316

Qualified nurses' perceptions of nursing graduates' abilities vary according to specific demographic and clinical characteristics. A descriptive quantitative study

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.07.001