QUALIFICATIONS
2018 Graduate Certificate in Education (TESOL)
2017 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2012 – 2016 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Tasmania, Australia
Thesis: Teachers’ Confidence with Technology: Perceptions of the Impact of a
Student Laptop Computer Program in Trinidad and Tobago.
Graduate Certificate in Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
Completed units:
XGR 501 - Introduction to Higher Degree by Research
XGR 502 - Communicating Research
BMA 417 - Quantitative and Qualitative analysis
ELT 501 - Foundations of University Learning and Teaching
Additional Units:
ELT 506 - Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching
ESG 799 – Teaching Digital Technologies
1997 – 1999 Certificate in Education, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
Specialisation: Literacy Studies
1992 - 1995 Master of Education in Special Education, University of Sheffield, England.
Thesis: Comparison between the Academic Achievement of Hearing Impaired
Students and Hearing Students of the Same Class in a Mainstream School in
South Trinidad.
1989 – 1992 Diploma in Special Education, University of Sheffield, England.
1973 -1975 Teachers’ Diploma, Mausica Teachers’ College, Trinidad and Tobago
Minor qualifications
July- Aug '06 Pre-School Curriculum. High Scope Educational Research, Kuwait.
2000 - 2001 Supervisory Management Course. Technical Institute, Trinidad and Tobago.
Oct -Dec '95 Computing for Managers. Technical Institute, Trinidad and Tobago.
Teacher Registration
2011 - Registered Teacher with the Teachers’ Registration Board of Tasmania (TRBT
No. 19502).
1975 - Registered Teacher with the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago
(Registration No. 15815).
PEDAGOGIC EXPERIENCE
Australia
2012-2013 University of Tasmania - Tutor in MTeach Program
EMT603: Inclusive Practices in Educational Settings.
EMT 511: Foundations of Literacy: Teaching and Reading .
2012 - Relief Teacher at Government and Catholic primary schools in Hobart
Jul - Dec 11 Student Support Services at the Friends’ School in Hobart
Kuwait
Jul 08 - Jun 11 Kuwait, Fawzia Sultan International School (Special Needs School - Grade 10 - 12)
Jul 06 - Jun 08 Kuwait, Hope School for Special Needs (K - Grade1)
United States of America
Aug 05-Jun 06 Charlestowne Academy, Charleston, SC, USA Inclusive Education Teacher for Grade 7-12.
Aug 03-May 05 Pepperhill Elementary School, Charleston, SC, USA Special Education Teacher.
Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
May 98-Jun 03 Special Education Coordinator at the Ministry of Education
Sep 75-Aug76 North Trace Government Primary School, Trinidad and Tobago
AWARDS AND OTHER
Awards
1973-1795 Government of Trinidad and Tobago Scholarship to Mausica Teachers’ College.
2004 Runner up for the Cultural Educator Ambassador Award for South Carolina, Visiting International Faculty program.
2005 Cultural Educator Ambassador Award for South Carolina, Visiting International Faculty program.
Voluntary Services
2016 Mentoring Lecturers from the School of Engineering
1995 - 2003 Created, planned programs, and managed a learning space for 75 students
who needed extra instructions in different academic areas in the South
Eastern Education District of Trinidad and Tobago.
2015 - Corresponding member of UNESCO International Federation of Information
Processing Technical Committee TC3 - Education, Working Group WG 3.3:
Research into Educational Applications of Information Technologies.
Hobbies
Chess, tennis, hiking, and cooking
PUBLICATIONS
Papers presented at conferences
Jaikaran-Doe, S. 2013. Investigating secondary school teachers’ technological pedagogical
content knowledge in Trinidad and Tobago. University of Tasmania Research (SEiR)
Conference 2013. 'Beyond Candidature –Exploring Local and Global Research
Pathways'. Hobart, Tasmania.
Jaikaran-Doe, S. (2015). LEM-LT: Analytical educational framework for the eConnect and
Learn program. Paper presented at the IFIP TC3 Working Conference. A New
Culture of Learning: Computing and Next Generations (pp. 110 -120). Vilnius,
Lithuania. Retrieved from http://www.ifip2015.mii.vu.lt/file/repository/IFIP_Proceedings_July_21.pdf
Jaikaran-Doe, S. (2015). Parallel Analysis: Accuracy in factor retention. Paper presented at
the IFIP TC3 Working Conference. A New Culture of Learning: Computing and Next
Generations (pp. 418-421). Vilnius, Lithuania. Retrieved from
http://www.ifip2015.mii.vu.lt/file/repository/IFIP_Proceedings_July_21.pdf
Turner, L., Wood, D., Jaikaran-Doe, S. & Doe, P. (2015). Investigating students’ engagement
in an engineering degree through technology enhanced learning. Paper presented at
the IFIP TC3 Working Conference. A New Culture of Learning: Computing and Next
Generations. (pp. 436-441) Vilnius, Lithuania. Retrieved from
http://www.ifip2015.mii.vu.lt/file/repository/IFIP_Proceedings_July_21.pdf
Jaikaran-Doe, S., Fluck, A. & Hay, I. (2016). Exploring teachers' confidence to integrate technology
in Trinidad and Tobago. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference program,
27 November - 01 December, Melbourne.
Doe, P and Jaikaran-Doe, S and Lyden, S and Ming, L and Bingzhong, R and Peng, Y and Male, S (2017), “Intensive
mode teaching for the delivery of engineering content to students at a Chinese university”, Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Annual Conference, 10-13 December 2017, Manly, Australia, pp. 1-10. ISBN 978-0-646-98026-3
Jaikaran-Doe, S and Doe, P (2018) ,“UTAS engineering education in China”, Program for Teaching Matters 2018 -
Pathways to Teaching Excellence, 21 November 2018, Newnham Campus, Tasmania
Jaikaran-Doe, S and Leon de la Barra, B and Lyden, S and Wang, I and Fan, F and Henderson, A and Franklin, E
and Doe, P (2018), “Strategies for promoting cultural diversity within student laboratory groups in an
engineering degree course at an Australian university”, Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Association for
Engineering Education Annual Conference (AAEE 2018), 09-12 December 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand
Jaikaran-Doe, S and Lyden, S and Doe, P (2018), “Articulation of Chinese students into an Australian engineering
degree”, Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Annual Conference (AAEE 2018), 09-12 December 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Papers published in journals
Jaikaran-Doe, S., & Doe, P.E. (2015). Synthesis of survey questions that accurately
discriminate the elements of the TPACK framework. Australian Educational
Computing, 30(1), 1-29.
Jaikaran-Doe, S., & Doe, P.E. (2016). Assessing technological pedagogical content
knowledge of engineering academics in an Australian regional
university. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education Retrieved from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2015.1133515
Doe, P and Lyden, S and Jaikaran-Doe, S and Wang, X. (2018). “Enhancing Chinese students’ learning in an
Australian 2+2 undergraduate engineering program”, International Journal of Higher Education, 7 (5) pp. 86-96.
doi:10.5430/ijhe.v7n5p86 ISSN 1927-6044 (2018)
Published Theses
Jaikaran-Doe, S. (2016). Teachers’ Confidence with Technology: Perceptions of the Impact
of a Student Laptop Computer Program in Trinidad and Tobago. (Doctoral Thesis).
University of Tasmania, Faculty of Education, Hobart.
Mohammed, S. (1995). A Comparison between the Academic Achievement of Hearing
Impaired Students and Hearing Students of the Same Class in a Mainstream School in
South Trinidad (M.Ed.) Dissertation. University of Sheffield, Division of Education.
Hobart, May 2016