My research

I am a PhD candidate jointly supervised by the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Education. My research is on validating the assessment of programming skills; that is, I'm trying to work out whether prac and exam results do a good job of telling us whether a student is a competent programmer, and whether other methods might do as good a job more cheaply, or a better job for the same cost.

You can read more about my research on my research page.

Teaching

I've been working as a tutor/demonstrator in Computer Science since 1997. The research idea sprang from my teaching experience; my Bachelors degree is in Computer Science, not Education. I've tutored the following units:

• CSE1301 Computer Programming
• CSE1303 Computer Science
• CSE1304 Professional Communications
• CSE1401 Intro to Software Engineering
• CSE2302 Operating Systems
• CSE2303 Formal Methods I
• CSE2304 Algorithms and Data Structures
• CSE2305 Object-Oriented Software Engineering
• CSE2324 Computer Architecture
• CSE3305 Formal Methods II
• FIT1008 Computer Science
• FIT2014 Theory of Computation

In Semester 1 2009, I will be tutoring FIT1008 Computer Science and FIT2043 Technical Documentation for Software Engineers.