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Transversal skills priorities and curricular support as experienced by engineering students on their path to becoming responsible engineers

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Joelyn de Lima

Transversal skills (TS) are fundamental to both work effectively autonomously and with others in society. They are key to educating responsible engineers able to assess and proactively respond to issues and opportunities. As evidenced by recent course syll ...

2024

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Lucille Delisle, Mirjam Mekhaiel, Helena Kovacs

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...

2022

My Hands or my Mouse: Comparing a Tangible and Graphical User Interface using Eye-Tracking Data

Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Lorenzo Lucignano, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) have drawn the interest of HCI and learning communities because of their potential positive impact on the learning experience. In this paper, we describe a preliminary study of a TUI ap- plication for training spatial skills ...

2014

Dataset for the evaluation of student-level outcomes of a primary school Computer Science curricular reform

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

The associated peer reviewed article that will appear in the International Journal of STEM education : El-Hamamsy, L., Bruno, B., Audrin, C., Chevalier, M., Avry S., Dehler Zufferey, J., and Mondada, F. (2023). How are Primary School Computer Science Curri ...

Zenodo2023

Dataset for the comparison of two Computational Thinking (CT) test for upper primary school (grades 3-4) : the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

This dataset contains quantitative student data acquired during the administration of two validated Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for upper primary school (grades 3 and 4): the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) [1] and the comptent CT test (cCTt) [2] To ...

Zenodo2022

A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Helena Kovacs

The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

2022

A case for co-construction with teachers in curricular reform: Introducing computer science in primary school

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Helena Kovacs

With the introduction of Computer Science (CS) into curricula worldwide, researchers have investigated whether CS could be introduced transversally, as a support other disciplines. Few however consider both student learning and the teachers’ perspective in ...

ACM2022

Comparing the psychometric properties of two primary school Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for grades 3 and 4: The Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

Introduction: With the increasing amount of research around Computational Thinking (CT) and endeavors introducing CT into curricula worldwide, assessing CT at all levels of formal education is of utmost importance to ensure that CT-related learning objecti ...

Frontiers Media2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

An adapted cascade model to scale primary school digital education curricular reforms and teacher professional development programs

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Gregory Vivian Raymond Liegeois, Barbara Bruno, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Many countries struggle to effectively introduce Digital Education (DE) to all K-12 students as they lack adequately trained teachers. While cascade models of in-service teacher-professional development (PD) can rapidly deploy PD-programs through multiple ...

2023

From teacher to teacher-trainer: A qualitative study exploring factors contributing to a successful train-the-trainer digital education program

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Caroline Pulfrey, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Christiane Caneva, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

This paper explores the experience of 14 teacher-trainers involved in a train-the-trainer digital education program in Switzerland. Data collected between August 2019 and June 2021 through focus groups and collaborative portfolios were analyzed through the ...

2023

Correction: How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps (vol 10, 60, 2023)

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

2023

The symbiotic relationship between educational robotics and computer science in formal education

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

Educational Robotics (ER) has the potential to provide significant benefits to edu-cation, provided an increase in outreach by transitioning from the extra-curricular initiatives in which ER has thrived to formal education. As Computer Science (CS) Educati ...

2021

The Competent Computational Thinking Test (cCTt): A Valid, Reliable and Gender-Fair Test for Longitudinal CT Studies in Grades 3-6

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

The introduction of computing education into curricula worldwide requires multi-year assessments to evaluate the long-term impact on learning. However, no single Computational Thinking (CT) assessment spans primary school, and no group of CT assessments pr ...

SPRINGER2025

Projet EduNum — Obligatoire: Rapport sur la troisième année En Collaboration avec la HEP Vaud, l’UNIL et le DFJC

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Caroline Pulfrey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Gregory Vivian Raymond Liegeois, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Matthew David Roberts, Anne Claire Nicole, Yves Léonard Froidevaux, Christiane Caneva, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry, Yann Benoit Daniel Secq

Résumé du rapport L’année scolaire 2020-2021, a marqué un tournant décisif dans le cycle de vie du projet d’éducation numérique « EduNum ». Si les circonstances sans précédent générées par la pandémie ont forcé la réorganisation des formations continues di ...

EPFL - LEARN Center for Learning Sciences2021

Dataset for the validation of a Computational Thinking test for upper primary school (grades 3-4)

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno

This dataset contains quantitative student data acquired during the administration of a new computational thinking assessment for upper primary school (grades 3 and 4). Over 1500 students (approximately half in grade 3 and half in grade 4) participated in ...

2022

Dataset for the publication "The TACS Model: Understanding Teachers' Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content in Primary School"

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse an in service teacher training program for Computer Science that took place from September 2019 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. Approximately 180 teachers from the the 5th ...

2022

Dataset for the evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program for computer science and robotics

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Barbara Bruno

This dataset contains the quantitative teacher data used to analyse an in service teacher training program that took place from September 2018 to March 2020 in the Canton Vaud in Switzerland. Approximately 350 teachers from the first four grades of primary ...

Zenodo2021

Formation des Enseignant·e·s au Numérique: Rapport sur la Première Année de Formation à la Science Informatique au Cycle 1 en Collaboration avec la HEP Vaud, l’Unil et le DFJC

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto

Le département de la Formation, de la Jeunesse et de la Culture (DFJC) a lancé en 2018 un vaste chantier numérique dans le Canton de Vaud dont la première priorité est l’école vaudoise. En août 2018, 10 établissements on débuté une phase pilote afin de tes ...

EPFL2019