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Best paper

On 1 August 2025, Fabian Zehner presented the paper Down the Cascades of Omethi: Hierarchical Automatic Scoring in Large-Scale Assessments at the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025) at the ACL conference in Vienna and received the Best Paper Award. The corresponding paper has now been published. https://aclanthology.org/2025.bea-1.47/ 

                                                                                                                                                               

Dagstuhl

Daniel Schiffner and Jan Schneider participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar ‘Generative AI in Programming Education’ from 27 July to 1 August. At this meeting of international experts on AI and computer science, various tools and opportunities for innovating teaching and working with AI tools were discussed.

MYSKILLS - Identifying Professional Competencies

The MYSKILLS project with the Bertelsmann Stiftung has been extended for a further two years until the end of 2026. The tests have been used successfully by the educational institutions so far and interest remains high. An interview with TERTIA, one of the educational institutions that successfully uses MYSKILLS, can be read in the Impact Story.

Current projects

  1. CORE - Critical Thinking in Online Learning Environments in Higher Education

    The project investigates the critical use of digital media and information by students. Text and process data are collected using ...

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  2. lernen:digital – Competence Network for a Digital Transformation of Schools and Teacher Training

    The competence network "lernen:digital" (“digital learning”) organises 24 project networks nationwide, which set up teacher ...

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Current publications

  1. Hahn-Laudenberg, K., Goldhammer, F. & Ates, R. (2024):

    Politisches Wissen und Argumentieren. In H.J. Abs, K. Hahn-Laudenberg, D. Deimel & J.F. Ziemes (Hrsg.), ICCS 2022. Schulische Sozialisation und ...

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  2. Kiesler, Natalie; Schiffner, Daniel (2024):

    What is a Good API? A Survey on the Use and Design of Application Programming Interfaces. In: 4 Pereira, T., Impagliazzo, J., Santos, H., Chen, J. ...

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  3. Gombert, S., Fink, A., Giorgashvili, T., Jivet, I., Di Mitri, D., Yau, J., Frey, A., Drachsler, D. (2024):

    From the Automated Assessment of Student Essay Content to Highly Informative Feedback: a Case Study. Int J Artif Intell Educ. ...

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