Promoting diagnostic and intervention skills with simulations for programming & debugging: Effects of personalised representational and learning process scaffolding (A04)

• Subject Area: General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 542251251

A04 investigates learning of diagnosing and intervention skills for programming and debugging in teacher education. Beginning computer science teachers’ strategic diagnostic processes during simulation-based learning are examined as a function of representational scaffolding, which adjusts cue salience, and learning process scaffolding, implemented through dashboards with metacognitive prompts. In one validation and three experimental studies, the project investigates the effects of personalized scaffolds to enhance diagnostic and intervention skill development.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 419: Simulation-based learning in higher education: advancing research on process diagnostics and personalized interventions (SHARP)
• Applicant Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Maria Bannert; Professor Dr. Tilman Michaeli; Professor Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer; Professorin Dr. Tina Seidel