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At least since the first PISA surveys, the intentions of education are increasingly expressed in terms of competencies instead of learning goals. In consequence, learning outcomes should be measured in terms of these intended competencies as well. This holds for large-scale investigations like PISA as well as for the very small scale that is represented by the examinations that a single teaching person...
This research project aims to investigate, how young men and women differ regarding (1) their perceptions of Computer Science (CS) as a scientific discipline respectively as a professional field and (2) the experiences that had influenced their choice of major subject. For that purpose, we conducted a biographical study of CS freshmen at university. In total, 217 students (54 female, 163 male) participated...
Learning outcomes are more and more defined and measured in terms of competencies. Many research projects are conducted that investigate combinations of knowledge and skills that students might learn. Yet, it is also promising to analyze what students might fail to learn, which provides information about the absence of certain competencies. For this purpose, we are evaluating the outcomes of automatic...
One of the biggest challenges of the computer science department at our university is handling the enormous heterogeneity of freshmen concerning both their previous programming abilities and their learning behaviors due to their biographical and social background. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a preliminary programming course based on the teaching method of Mastery Learning...
In order to identify important competencies required for teaching computer science in schools, the research project KUI (Competencies for Teaching Computer Science) granted by the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) was founded. At this point in time, there is no consistent competency model for training computer science pre-service teachers in Germany. The development of an adequate model is...
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