Fraser Coast academic wins best paper hat trick

USQ academic Associate Professor Romina Jamieson-Proctor

A Fraser Coast academic has achieved a hat trick with a paper presented at the Australian Computers in Education Conference in Melbourne earlier this month.

Associate Professor Romina Jamieson-Proctor, from USQ Fraser Coast, won a highly commended paper award.

It is the third time she has taken out a highly commended or best paper award at the biennial conference.

The paper, Auditing the TPACK Capabilities of Final Year Teacher Education Students: Are they ready for the 21st Century, was one of more than 100 in the running for just four awards.

It was co-authored by Glenn Finger and Peter Albion.

The conference, which runs from April 6 to 9, is the major conference in computer education in Australia. It attracts researchers and educators from across the globe.

Assoc Prof Jamieson-Proctor has had first-hand involvement with the use of computer-based technologies in classrooms since 1980. Her recent research focuses on the enhancement of higher intellectual functioning (problem-solving and creativity) using ICT and the evaluation of the impact of ICT curriculum integration.

She was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in June 2000 to investigate the Impact of ICT on Distributed Creativity in Classrooms.

Her efforts to improve teaching and learning have also been acknowledged with a Griffith University Commendation for Excellence in Teaching in 2003 and a Schooling 2001 Queensland Award for her contributions to the integration of ICT into curriculum programs.

An abstract of the paper is available here. 

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Katrina Corcoran, USQ Media, +61 7 4194 3167