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Department of Information Technology
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Group Leader

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Mats Daniels PhD, Professor

Research Interests

  • Learning in international open ended group project settings
  • How to promote and assess students development of professional competencies
  • Role models in computing
  • Quality assessment of educational programs

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Senior Researchers

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Anders Berglund, PhD

Research Interests

  • How students learn computer science
  • Methodological rigour, particularly in qualitative research approaches
  • How computing is understood by students in various social and cultural contexts
  • Improve teaching of computing to diversified student cohorts

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Åsa Cajander PhD, Professor

Research Interests

  • How to assess professional competences
  • Coaching as a learning strategy
  • Students generated learning material
  • Action Research as a methodological framework

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Anna Eckerdal PhD, Associate Professor

Research Interests

  • How students learn computer programming
  • The role of hands-on in learning to program
  • The relationship between learning theory and learning practice in the lab
  • Programming@School: teaching and learning of programming in upper secondary school
  • Threshold concepts in Computer Science
  • What students know about software design, and how they learn it

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Lars-Åke Nordén PhD

Research Interests

  • Computer Science and Computational Thinking in K-12 education
  • Self-efficacy in CS among Teachers

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Aletta Nylén PhD

Research Interests

  • Development of professional competence
  • Communication in computer science education
  • Learning in Project-Based Education
  • Participation in computing disciplines

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Arnold Pears PhD, Professor

Research Interests

  • Theories of knowledge construction in Computing
  • Research driven curriculum design and educational practice
  • Computational thinking
  • K-12 education
  • Wireless and pervasive systems to support learning of Computing

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Bedour Alshaigy

Research Interests

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Virginia Grande

Research Interests

  • Role modeling
  • Identity
  • Professional competencies
  • Emotions
  • Ethics (of care)
  • Broadening participation

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PhD Students

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Thom Kunkeler

Research Interests

  • Capital development in the computing classroom
  • Social and cognitive factors affecting engagement with computing education
  • Inequality and broadening participation in computing education

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Johan Snider

Research Interests

  • K-12 education
  • Learning platform analytics
  • Virtual reality

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Caroline Uppsäll

Research Interests

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Tina Vrieler

Research Interests

  • Understanding children's motivation, interest development and aspirations in computer science (CS)
  • Out-of-school/Non-formal computing education
  • Computer Science Capital
  • Sociology, gender research, anti-oppressive education and social justice-related research
  • Research methodologies

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Updated  2023-08-31 10:21:19 by Virginia Grande Castro.