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Dr. Michael T. Rücker

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E-Mail: rueckerm@informatik.hu-berlin.de

 

Michael Rücker received his Master's degree in Education at Humboldt-Universität in 2014, with the subjects computer science and English. Subsequently he joined the work group of Prof. Pinkwart as a research assistant and, in February 2020, received his doctorate with highest distinction (summa cum laude). In his dissertation, he used a qualitative design, particularly grounded-theory methods, to investigate student conceptions of computing devices and their role in learning transfer from school to everyday life.

In December 2021, he successfully completed his teacher training and the second state exam for a secondary school teacher with the subjects computer science and English.

In February 2022, Dr. Rücker rejoined the group here at Humboldt-Universität to work on his own DFG-funded project on Competencies for the Assessment of Computing System Consequences.

In September 2023, he started a junior professorship for computing education at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

 

Interests

  • K-12 compuer science
  • student conceptions
  • transfer of learning
  • competency models
  • qualitative research methods

 

 

 

Journal Articles by M. Rücker


Conference Papers


M. T. Rücker
Modelling the Competency to Evaluate the Impacts of Computing
Proceedings of the 17th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022
k-12 education impacts of computing competency modelling
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M. T. Rücker, N. Pancratz, C. Gold-Veerkamp, N. Pinkwart, and T. Brinda
Alltagsvorstellungen in der Informatik: Erhebungsmethodik und Implikationen für den Unterricht
Informatische Bildung zum Verstehen und Gestalten der digitalen Welt: 17. GI-Fachtagung Informatik und Schule, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2017
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M. T. Rücker and N. Pinkwart
Towards a grounded theory of how students identify computing
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Primary and Secondary Computing Education, ACM, 2017
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M. Rücker and N. Pinkwart
Petri Nets in Secondary CS Education
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2014
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