Publications de Engin Walter Bumbacher

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Who's Helping Who? When Students Use ChatGPT to Engage in Practice Lab Sessions

Jérôme Guillaume Brender, Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Engin Walter Bumbacher

Little is understood about how chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) impact teaching and learning, and how to effectively integrate them into educational practices. This study examined whether and how using ChatGPT in a graduate-level robotics c ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

A Comparative Analysis of Tools & Task Types for Measuring Computational Problem-Solving

Richard Lee Davis, Engin Walter Bumbacher, Jérôme Guillaume Brender

How to measure students' Computational Problem-Solving (CPS) competencies is an ongoing research topic. Prevalent approaches vary by measurement tools (e.g., interactive programming, multiple-choice tests, or programming-independent tests) and task types ( ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

FADE-CTP: A Framework for the Analysis and Design of Educational Computational Thinking Problems

Alberto Piatti, Francesco Mondada, Engin Walter Bumbacher

In recent years, the emphasis on computational thinking (CT) has intensified as an effect of accelerated digitalisation. While most researchers are concentrating on defining CT and developing tools for its instruction and assessment, we focus on the charac ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Tangible vs. Virtual Representations: when Tangibles Benefit the Training of Spatial Skills

Pierre Dillenbourg, Sébastien Cuendet, Engin Walter Bumbacher

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have been the focus of much attention in the HCI and learning communities because of their many potential benefits for learning. However, there have recently been debates about whether TUIs can actually increase learning out ...

2012

A systematic review of empirical studies using log data from open-ended learning environments to measure science and engineering practices

Engin Walter Bumbacher

Technology-based, open-ended learning environments (OELEs) can capture detailed information of students' interactions as they work through a task or solve a problem embedded in the environment. This information, in the form of log data, has the potential t ...

WILEY2023

Teaching and Measuring Multidimensional Inquiry Skills Using Interactive Simulations

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Engin Walter Bumbacher, Ekaterina Shved

Interactive simulations play a significant role in science education, serving as a platform for inquiry-based learning and fostering the development of scientific knowledge and skills. However, teaching and quantitatively measuring inquiry strategies has p ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024