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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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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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