Conference Outline
September 25, 2022 Doctoral Consortium
September 26 – 28, 2022 Conference
September 29, 2022 Austrian Informatics Teachers Day
All sessions except Poster Session and Workshop Sessions are located in the Conference Lecture Hall,
4., Favoritenstraße 11, Ground Floor.
Detailed Conference Program
Monday, 26.9.2022
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Opening
Gertrude Kappel, Dean of Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote Torsten Brinda: What all teachers should know about Informatics.
Chair: Gerald Futschek
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15 Assessing Computational Thinking (Full papers)
Chair: Mara Saeli
Vaida Masiulionytė-Dagienė and Tatjana Jevsikova: Assessing Computational Thinking: The Relation of Different Assessment Instruments and Learning Tools.
Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Mattia Monga, and Anna Morpurgo: How is two better than one? An observational study on the impact of working in pairs when solving Bebras tasks.
Zsuzsa Pluhár, Heidi Kaarto, Marika Parviainen, Sonia Garcha, Vipul Shah, Valentina Dagienė, and Mikko-Jussi Laakso: Bebras Challenge in a Learning Analytics Enriched Environment: Hungarian and Indian cases.
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break, product presentations
13:15 – 14:15 Computational Thinking Education (Full paper/Short paper)
Chair: Nadine Bergner
Markus Wieser, Nina Lobnig, Stefan Pasterk, and Andreas Bollin: Achieving Computational Thinking competencies using the BBC micro:bit.
Eric Schätz, Alke Martens, and Lutz Hellmig: Analysis of the educational potential of attributes of physical computing systems for the development of computational thinking.
14:15 – 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 – 16:15 Parallel Workshops 1
Jean-Philippe Pellet: A Logic-System Simulator Designed for Teaching.
Location: Seminar A, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Bernadette Spieler and Tobias M. Schifferle: Maker-Education: Interdisciplinary Computer Science Activities.
Location: Seminar B, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Frauke Ritter, Anette Bentz, and Bernhard Standl: Promoting Algorithmic Thinking: Students Using mBot’s And Block-based Programming – Practical Insights into Two Different Problem-based Approaches.
Location: Seminar C, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Stefan Pasterk, Nina Angela Lobnig, Lukas Pagitz, and Kevin Wiltschnig: Creating Personalized Online Courses based on Competencies and Open Educational Resources.
Location: Conference Lecture Hall, ground floor
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Workshops 2
Claudia Steinberger, Nicole Burgstaller, Claudia Van Der Rijst, and Nina Lobnig: Learn to query databases in an interactive and engaging way.
Location: Seminar A, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Martin Cápay and Magdaléna Bellayová: Tangible Computer Science.
Location: Seminar B, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Nicola Ottowitz, Claudio Ciesciutti, and Markus Wieser: Teaching programming concepts through gamification using the Sphero Bolt.
Location: Seminar C, Seminar Center, 1. upper floor
Natasa Grgurina and Jos Tolboom: Addressing Digital Literacy in a National Curriculum.
Location: Conference Lecture Hall, ground floor
Tuesday, 27.9.2022
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Enrico Nardelli: Informatics Education – the grand challenge for a XXI century school.
Chair: Andreas Bollin
10:00 – 11:15 Primary Education (Full papers)
Chair: Bernadette Spieler
Christin Nenner and Nadine Bergner: Informatics Education in German Primary School Curricula.
Bence Gaál: Robotics-enhanced natural science in primary schools.
Gabrielė Stupurienė and Yasemin Gulbahar: Informatics at primary education: teachers’ motivation and barriers in Lithuania and Turkey.
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break.
11:45 – 12:45 Poster session
Location: Aula, Favoritenstraße 11. Chair: Andrej Brodnik
Frauke Ritter, Nadine Schlomske-Bodenstein and Bernhard Standl: Integration of an Informatics Teaching-Learning Laboratory into Pre-Service Informatics Teacher Education.
Nadine Schlomske-Bodenstein and Bernhard Standl: Exploring Pre-service Informatics Teachers‘ Ability to Assess Their Own Performance in Supporting Learners Through Algorithmic Problem Solving Processes.
Erbil Yilmaz, Vincenzo Fragapane, and Bernhard Standl: More than a substitute? Digital exams with Tablets in Computer Science.
Jacqueline Nijenhuis-Voogt, Sabiha Yeni and Mara Saeli: Teachers’ Views on Preliminary Design Principles for Computational Thinking Integration into Non-Computing Subjects.
Michael Weigend: Easy Programming Tasks and Informatics for All.
Bernhard Standl, Nico Hillah and Nadine Schlomske-Bodenstein: Identifying Teaching Patterns in Pre-service Informatics Teacher Education.
Thiemo Leonhardt and Nadine Bergner: Learning through teaching – External control of computer science learning applications.
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 – 15:00 Programming Assessment (Full papers)
Chair: Jean-Philippe Pellet
Tilman Michaeli and Ralf Romeike: „I now feel that this is unfair“ A Case Study on the Effects of Professional Development for Debugging in the K-12 classroom.
Claudio Mirolo and Emanuele Scapin: An Exploration of High School Students‘ Self-Confidence while Analysing Iterative Code.
Jacqueline Staub, Alexandra Maximova, and Jeremy Marbach: A Tool to Create and Conduct Custom Assessments in Turtle Graphics.
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Panel discussion: Media education or computing science? Quo vadis, school teaching?
Moderation: Bernhard Standl, University of Education Karlsruhe
Martin Bauer, Austrian ministry of education
Enrico Nardelli, Professor of Informatics, Università di Roma „Tor Vergata“
Sue Sentance, Raspberry Pi Foundation
Christian Swertz, Professor of Media Education, University of Vienna
Marina Wittner, Federation of Austrian Industries Brussels Bureau
17:00 – open end Informatics Night Garden Party
Location: Garden of TU Wien Informatics Building, Favoritenstraße 9
Wednesday, 28.9.2022
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Sue Sentance: Addressing gender balance: the need for a multi-faceted approach.
Chair: Valentina Dagienė
10:00 – 11:20 Programming and Teacher Education (Experience papers)
Chair: Zsuzsa Pluhár
Cristiana Araújo, Pedro Rangel Henriques and João José Cerqueira: Creating Learning Resources based on Programming concepts.
Nina Lobnig, Markus Wieser, Stefan Pasterk, and Andreas Bollin: Teaching fundamental programming concepts with the BBC micro:bit.
Jiří Vaníček, Václav Šimandl, and Václav Dobiáš: Bebras tasks based on assembling programming code.
Jean-Philippe Pellet, Gabriel Parriaux and Morgane Chevalier: Design and Analysis of a Disciplinary Computer Science Course for Pre-Service Primary Teachers.
11:20 – 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 – 13:10 Informatics Education (Experience papers)
Chair: Tilman Michaeli
Maria Csernoch: The pioneers of introducing informatics in K-12 education – Do not fall into the same hole, we did.
Špela Cerar, Andrej Brodnik, Gregor Anželj, Matija Lokar and Irena Nančovska Šerbec: Textbooks and Materials for Teaching Computer Science in Slovenia.
Corinna Hörmann, Lisa Kuka, Eva Schmidthaler, Marina Rottenhofer, and Barbara Sabitzer: From Non-Existent to Mandatory in Five Years – The Journey of Digital Education in the Austrian School System.
Marina Rottenhofer, Lisa Kuka and Barbara Sabitzer: Clear the Ring for Computer Science: A Creative Introduction for Primary Schools.
13:10 – 14:10 Lunch break
14:20 – 16:35 School visit (Gymnasium Waltergasse)
16:45 – 17:00 Best Paper Award, Announcement of ISSEP 2023, Closing