Prof. Dr. Michael Rücker

Junior Professor for Computing Education

Professional CV

since 2023
Junior Professor for Computing Education at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2022 – 2023
Research assistant (PostDoc) at the research group "Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2021
Second state examination for teaching (ISS/Gymnasium) in computer science and English (Berlin)
2020
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in computing education on “A Naturalistic Inquiry into Student Conceptions of Computing Technology and their Role for Learning and Transfer”
2014 – 2020
Research assistant (doctoral candidate) at the research group "Computer Science Education / Computer Science and Society" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2014
Master of Education (M.Ed.) in computer science and English at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Current Research

Competency modelling and scaffolding in computing education
Socio-cultural perspectives in computing education
Mechanism and conditions for learning transfer
Students' conceptions and misconceptions about digital systems

Projects

Competencies for the Assessment of Computing System Impacts (DFG, 2022-2025)

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Selected Publications

Rücker, M. T. (2023). Modeling Conceptual Knowledge of Computing Impacts for K-12. The 18th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE ’23), https://doi.org/10.1145/3605468.3605469External link
Rücker, M. T. (2022). Modelling the Competency to Evaluate the Impacts of Computing. Proceedings of the 17th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 101–104. https://doi.org/10.1145/3556787.3556804External link
Rücker, M. T. (2020). A Naturalistic Inquiry into Student Conceptions of Computing Technology and their Role for Learning and Transfer Diss. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://doi.org/10.18452/21239External link
Rücker, M. T., van Joolingen, W. R., & Pinkwart, N. (2020). Small but Powerful: A Learning Study to Address Secondary Students’ Conceptions of Everyday Computing Technology. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 20(2), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377880External link
Rücker, M. T., & Pinkwart, N. (2019). “How Else Should It Work?” A Grounded Theory of Pre-College Students’ Understanding of Computing Devices. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 19(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3226592External link
Rücker, M. T., & Pinkwart, N. (2018). The things that belong: A grounded theory study of student categorizations of complex technical artifacts. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-017-9419-yExternal link
Rücker, M. T., & Pinkwart, N. (2016). Review and Discussion of Children’s Conceptions of Computers. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(2), 274–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-015-9592-2External link

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Juniorprofessur für Didaktik der Informatik

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