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Colloquium for all doctoral students

Prior to WIPSCE, a colloquium for all doctoral students in computer science education will take place on March 10 and 11, 2026. The event is free of charge, will be held in German, and registration is required (participation in WIPSCE is not necessary). You will have the opportunity to meet other doctoral students, exchange ideas about your research, and discuss current challenges or open questions in a short presentation slot. The doctoral colloquium will take place at the WIPSCE venue and will begin on March 10, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. There will be an optional dinner on March 9, 2026.
Further information & registration: https://ddi-wiki.gi.de/doktoranden/start

March 11, 2026

from 11:30
Registration & Snack
12:30 - 13:00
Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Nadine Bergner
13:00 - 14:00
Keynote I
Chair: tba
Assessing Computational Thinking in Early Learners: From Competency Tests to Multimethod Evaluation (Abstract)
María Zapata Cáceres
14:00 - 14:30
Coffee break
14:30 - 16:00
Paper Session 1: Teaching Machine Learning
Chair: tba
Turning Students into Neurons — Evaluating an Embodied CS Unplugged Learning Activity on Neural Networks (Full Paper)
Lukas Lehner, Selina Reinhard, Martina Landman and René Röpke
Teaching Machine Learning and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education: Hands-On vs. Video-Based Approaches (Full Paper)
Line Have Musaeus, Luke John Connelly, Karl-Emil Kjær Bilstrup, Magnus Kaspersen and Peter Musaeus
Strategy-Oriented Feedback for Fostering Systematic Problem-Solving in Machine Learning Education (Full Paper)
Clemens Witt, Thiemo Leonhardt, Erik Marx and Mareen Grillenberger
16:00 - 16:45
Poster Session 1
Self-Concept Profiles of First-Year Informatics Students: Implications for Designing Gender-Sensitive Pre-University Interventions (Poster)
Sarah von Styp Rekowski and Nadine Dittert
Teaching Informatics through CLIL: A Bilingual Approach to Data Protection and Cryptography (Poster)
Matthias Karrasch and Ira Diethelm
Investigating the Usefulness of Physical Activity in Informatics Education (Poster)
Luca Christ and Nadine Dittert
Validating the Radboud Computational Thinking Test: An Unplugged Assessment for Upper-Primary Pupils (Poster)
Rosanne Sluiter, Viola Siegmeier, Johanna van Schaik, Noortje Janssen, Carlijn Veldhorst and Ard Lazonder
Proposing an AI-Assistant to Help Teachers Analyse and Modify Computational Problem Solving Activities (Poster)
Laila El-Hamamsy, Morgane Chevalier, Patrick Wang and Engin Bumbacher
Development and Piloting of an Internet Concept Inventory (ICI) with Secondary School Students (Poster)
Paul Lindstaedt and Tobias Bahr
One Project, Different Paths: Differentiated Instruction Placemats for Physical Computing (Poster)
Kira Klaner and Nils Pancratz
Interactive Learning of Recursion: A Tool-Based Approach for Schools (Poster)
Marvin Maurice Ballat
Flemish Learning Objective: Pupils to Analyse the Impact of Digital Systems on Society through Computational Thinking (Poster)
Natacha Gesquière, Tom Neutens and Francis Wyffels
Investigating Socially Shared Regulation in Pair Programming: Collaborative Experiences and Programming Skill Development among Female-Only Secondary Students (Poster)
Fawziah Alqahtani
Should we open the Black Box? Investigating Transparency in K-12 Machine Learning Education (Poster)
Valentina Ferraioli and Lukas Lehner
16:45 - 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00
Excursions
e.g. hike to the Dreiländereck.
19:00 - 21:00
Welcome Reception
drinks & snacks

March 12, 2026

08:30 - 09:00
Getting started & organizational matters
09:00 - 10:30
Paper Session 2: Programming
Chair: tba
What Makes Programming Lessons Authentic? (Full Paper)
Gert Braune and Andreas Mühling
Evaluating the cognitive effects of computer programming on inference skills in primary education (Full Paper)
Guglielmo Abbruzzese, Luca Forlizzi and Enrico Nardelli
Analysing Students' Journeys when Learning Programming using the Epistemic Plane from LCT (Full Paper)
Paul Curzon, Jane Waite and Steve Kirk
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Paper Session 3: Teacher
Chair: tba
Exploring Teacher Beliefs and Motivational Orientations Across Qualification Pathways in CS Education (Full Paper)
Philipp Wente and Andreas Mühling
'It's important, but...' - Secondary Computing Teachers’ Beliefs and Self-Efficacy about Teaching Social Issues (Full Paper)
Nils Dyck, Juliane Sperling and Michael T. Rücker
Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Conceptual Trajectories While Teaching an AI and STEM Integrated Unit: A Research-in-Practice Report (Practical Report)
Meize Guo, Yongju Jeon, Alexis Cobo, Kristen Apraiz and Maya Israel
12:30 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Paper Session 4: Programming + Teachers
Chair: tba
How to Determine the Educational Usability of Programming Tools? Teachers' Perspectives (Full Paper)
Felix Weißenrieder, Stefanie Lenzer and Andreas Mühling
Teachers' Engagement, Practice and Transfer with a Novel Instructional Design for Teaching Programming in Mathematics: A Professional Development Perspective (Full Paper)
Sindre Mathias Strømnes Nordvoll, Ragnhild Kobro Runde, Quintin Cutts and Dag I. K. Sjøberg
14:00 - 14:45
Poster Session 2
From Concrete Actions to Abstract Concepts: Exploring Young Learners’ Approach to Coding with Floor Robots (Poster)
Nadine Dittert, Marisa Alena Holzapfel and Cornelia Große
Extending DiGaBo with Visual Interactions for Computing Education (Poster)
Svenja Noichl, Lingzhi Pähler and Laura Drescher-Manaa
Enhancing K-12 Computer Science Learning with AI: Pedagogical Prompt-Guided Pair Programming in Student Exercises (Poster)
Thomas Ströhle and Fabian Riml
SewSimple in Practice: Designing an E-Textile Tutorial for Primary Computing Education (Poster)
Yifan Feng, Josephine E. McCaffrey, Bea Wohl and Jennifer A. Rode
Investigating AI Tool Use in K-12 Computer Science Classrooms (Poster)
Dominikus Häckel and Torsten Brinda
Inclusive CS Education in K-12 Classrooms: A Seminar for Prospective CS Teachers (Poster)
Felix Ziemann and Torsten Brinda
Improving Algorithmic Understanding via Path-finding Algorithms in Unplugged/Plugged Hybrid Workshops (Poster)
Michael Eickmeyer, Oskar Seierl, Martina Landman and René Röpke
A Pilot Study on Reproducibility in Computing Education Research: Examining Ten Years of WiPSCE Papers (Poster)
Erik Marx, Clemens Witt, Max Engelhardt, Andreas Grillenberger and Markus Sprenger
Adapting the Torrance Test of Creativity for Physical Computing: Measuring Idea Generation with the BBC Micro:bit (Poster)
Carrie Anne Philbin, Jessie Durk and Sue Sentance
First Insights of a Literature Review on Curriculum Research in Computer Science Education (Poster)
Torben Bjarne Wolff and Alke Martens
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00
Paper Session 5: Physical Computing
Chair: tba
Make it SewSimple: Navigating UK Curriculum and Classroom Practice in Secondary Computing Education with E-textiles (Full Paper)
Yifan Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Yishan Du, Weihong Tang, Jennifer A. Rode and Bea Wohl
Exploring the Role of Grounded Cognition in Physical Computing: A Thematic Synthesis (Full Paper)
Katharine Childs and Maria Kallia
16:00 - 16:30
Outlook for WiPSCE 2027
16:30 - 17:30
SC meeting (for members only)
18:00 - 22:00
Conference Dinner

March 13, 2026

08:30 - 09:00
Getting started & organizational matters
09:00 - 10:30
Paper Session 6: Using AI & Data Science
Chair: tba
Leveraging LLMs to Grade Code Comments in High School Assessment (Full Paper)
Henry Hickman and Tim Bell
Automatic Difficulty Evaluation of Bebras Tasks- Comparison between Results from LLMs, Expert Views and IRT Analysis (Full Paper)
Mohsen Asgari, Linda Mannila and Filip Strömbäck
Analysing data paradigms in K-12 data science activities: A systematic literature review (Full Paper)
Robert Whyte, Manni Cheung, Katharine Childs, Jane Waite and Sue Sentance
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45
Paper Session 7: Miscellaneous
Chair: tba
Towards a Conceptual Change of 7th Grade Students regarding Artificial Intelligence (Work-in-Progress Paper)
Tobias Bahr
Exploring Information Encoding Modeling Across Domains in Computer Science Education (Work-in-Progress Paper)
Heike Buttke and Johannes Krugel
11:45 - 12:00
Final words
12:00 - 13:00
Departure/Coffee Break & Snacks

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