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Humor in Software Testing Education
Isabella Graßl, Benoit Baudry
Software testing is often perceived as monotonous, which can negatively influence students' emotional engagement with testing. While prior work suggests that humor can increase eng…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Representation in Software Engineering Education Videos on YouTube
Isabella Graßl, Alexander Serebrenik, Giuseppe Destefanis
Educational resources may frame students' perceptions of who belongs in software engineering, which is relevant given the field's ongoing gender gap. However, we know little about…
Domain Diversity, Motivation, Inclusion, and Feedback in Software Modelling Education
Isabella Graßl, Christopher Lazik, Shalini Chakraborty +2
Student engagement is critical for effective learning in software modelling, yet fostering motivation and inclusivity remains a challenge. While existing research has focused on mo…
Voice-Controlled Scratch for Children with (Motor) Disabilities
Elias Goller, Gordon Fraser, Isabella Graßl
Block-based programming environments like Scratch have become widely adopted in Computer Science Education, but the mouse-based drag-and-drop interface can challenge users with dis…
From Personas to Programming: Gender-specific Effects of Design Thinking-Based Computing Education at Secondary Schools
Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser, Daniela Damian
Creative approaches to attract students to software engineering at an early age are emerging, yet their differential impact on gender remains unclear. This study investigates wheth…
Learning to Program Alongside AI: Critical Thinking, AI Ethics, and Gendered Patterns of German Secondary School Students
Isabella Graßl
The first generation of students is learning to program alongside GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) tools, raising questions about how young learners critically engage wit…
Beyond the Binary: Motivations, Challenges, and Strategies of Transgender and Non-binary Software Engineering Students
Isabella Graßl
When software is designed by people from diverse identities and experiences, it is more likely to be inclusive and address a broader range of user needs. However, for transgender a…
Integrating Mental Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability into Software Engineering Education
Isabella Graßl, Birgit Penzenstadler
Mental health and well-being are major concerns in higher education and professional fields such as software engineering, yet are often overlooked in curricula. This paper describe…
Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Isabella Graßl, Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser
Gender stereotypes in introductory programming courses often go unnoticed, yet they can negatively influence young learners' interest and learning, particularly under-represented g…
Belonging Beyond Code: Queer Software Engineering and Humanities Student Experiences
Emily Vorderwülbeke, Isabella Graßl
Queer students often encounter discrimination and a lack of belonging in their academic environments. This may be especially true in heteronormative male-dominated fields like soft…
Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE
Grischa Liebel, Jil Klünder, Regina Hebig +23
Purpose: Software modelling and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is traditionally studied from a technical perspective. However, one of the core motivations behind the use of softwar…
Exposing Software Engineering Students to Stressful Projects: Does Diversity Matter?
Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser, Stefan Trieflinger +1
Software development teams have to face stress caused by deadlines, staff turnover, or individual differences in commitment, expertise, and time zones. While students are typically…
The ABC of Pair Programming: Gender-dependent Attitude, Behavior and Code of Young Learners
Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser
Young learners are increasingly introduced to programming, and one of the main challenges for educators is to achieve learning success while also creating enthusiasm. As it is part…
Common Problems and Effects of Feedback on Fun When Programming Ozobots in Primary School
Luisa Greifenstein, Isabella Graßl, Ute Heuer +1
Computational thinking is increasingly introduced at primary school level, usually with some form of programming activity. In particular, educational robots provide an opportunity…
Gender-dependent Contribution, Code and Creativity in a Virtual Programming Course
Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser
Since computer science is still mainly male dominated, academia, industry and education jointly seek ways to motivate and inspire girls, for example by introducing them to programm…
Scratch as Social Network: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in Scratch Projects
Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser
Societal matters like the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement influence software engineering, as the recent debate on replacing certain discriminatory terms such as whitelist/blackli…
Challenging but Full of Opportunities: Teachers' Perspectives on Programming in Primary Schools
Luisa Greifenstein, Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser
The widespread establishment of computational thinking in school curricula requires teachers to introduce children to programming already at primary school level. As this is a rece…
Data-driven Analysis of Gender Differences and Similarities in Scratch Programs
Isabella Graßl, Katharina Geldreich, Gordon Fraser
Block-based programming environments such as Scratch are an essential entry point to computer science. In order to create an effective learning environment that has the potential t…