Margaret Hamilton

Associate Professor Margaret Hamilton researches in Computer Science education and human computer interaction, where she works with new technologies to research areas around people, mobility and sustainability. She has effected several OLT grants: Developing graduate employability through partnerships with industry and professional associations; Web 2.0 Authoring Tools in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: New Directions for Assessment and Academic Integrity; and A shared applied epistemology for competency in computer programming. Margaret has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in Computer Science education and technology journals and conferences, and has over 30 years' experience in teaching programming to tertiary students at TAFE and university. For this project, she was particularly interested in how the assessment of written English skill were made by the IELTS tests, PhD students and their supervisors, and brought experience in the design of surveys, interviews, focus groups and statistical analyses of the qualitative and quantitative data.