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  1. The Impact of an Immersive Block Model on International Postgraduate Student Success and Satisfaction: An Australian Case Study

    Article • Education Sciences, October 2025, MDPI AG

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  2. Enhancing student success for the ‘new majority’ in higher education through immersive block model learning

    Article • Innovations in Education and Teaching International, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  3. Transforming assessment policy: improving student outcomes through an immersive block model

    Article • Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  4. Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  5. Creating the conditions for student success through curriculum reform: the impact of an active learning, immersive block model

    Article • Higher Education, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  6. Editorial

    Article • English Australia Journal, July 2024, English Australia

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  7. Assessment symposium assessment practice in a changing world

    Article • English Australia Journal, July 2024, English Australia

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  8. Immersive learning in a block teaching model: A case study of academic reform through principles, policies and practice

    Article • Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, July 2024, Office of the Academic Executive Director, University of Tasmania

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  9. The success, satisfaction and experiences of international students in an immersive block model

    Article • Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, July 2024, Office of the Academic Executive Director, University of Tasmania

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  10. Increasing Student Success across Faculties through an Immersive Block Model: An Australian Case Study of Innovative Teaching and Learning

    Article • June 2024, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  11. Student perceptions of immersive block learning: an exploratory study of student satisfaction in the Southern Cross Model

    Article • Journal of Further and Higher Education, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  12. Implications of immersive scheduling for student achievement and feedback

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  13. Supporting the academic success of students from equity backgrounds in higher education through immersive scheduling

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  14. Does online engagement matter? The impact of interactive learning modules and synchronous class attendance on student achievement in an immersive delivery model

    Article • Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, November 2022, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  15. Digital Literacy and Academic Staff in an English Medium Instruction University

    Article • International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, May 2022, IGI Global

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  16. Why the Southern Cross Model? How one University’s Curriculum was Transformed

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  17. Piloting the Southern Cross Model: Implications of Immersive Scheduling for Student Achievement and Feedback

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  18. A Collaborative Approach to Assuring Standards: Using the CEFR to Benchmark University Pathway Programs’ English Language Outcomes

    Article • Language Teaching Research Quarterly, December 2021, EUROKD Egitm Danismanlik Group

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  19. Transforming lives: the power of an Australian enabling education

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  20. Making the connection: Examining the relationship between undergraduate students’ digital literacy and academic success in an English medium instruction (EMI) university

    Article • Education and Information Technologies, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  21. Emerging Trends and Future Directions of Enabling Education

    Article • Student Success, February 2018, Queensland University of Technology

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  22. Enabling Future Directions: NAEEA Invited Panel

    Article • Student Success, February 2018, Queensland University of Technology

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  23. Understanding Higher Education Attrition in English-Medium Programs in the Arab Gulf States: Identifying Push, Pull and Fallout Factors at an Omani University

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  24. Omani women's thoughts on the laws and practices related to wearing the hijab and niqab or veiling.

    Article • Journal of Intercultural Studies, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  25. The use of bilingual road signs

    Article • Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Rafik Jamoussi, A/Professor Thomas Roche

  26. Offshore and onsite placement testing for English pathway programmes

    Article • Journal of Further and Higher Education, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  27. Vocabulary Recognition Skill as a Screening Tool in English-as-a-Lingua-Franca University Settings

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  28. Identifying academically at-risk students in an English-as-a-Lingua-Franca university setting

    Article • Journal of English for Academic Purposes, September 2014, Elsevier

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  29. The Dialogic Fashioning of Women's Dress in the Sultanate of Oman

    Article • Journal of Arabian Studies, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  30. Recognition vocabulary knowledge as a predictor of academic performance in an English as a foreign language setting

    Article • Language Testing in Asia, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Thomas Roche

  31. Learning to hear by learning to speak

    Article • Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, January 2013, John Benjamins

    A/Professor Thomas Roche