PERL

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Learning to program is hard, everyone that has done so can attest to that. Contrary to topics like mathematics and language which we have been teaching for hundreds of years, programming education is relatively new. Therefore there are many open questions such as:

• what is the best age to learn programming?
• what concepts confuse children most?
• how should a teacher teach programming if they do not know a lot about it themselves.

These are the type of research questions that we aim to address within the PERL group. We teach the Master course Psychology of Programming in the Spring semester.

The Programming Education Research Lab is hosted at LIACS, the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science.

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Faculty

• Felienne Hermans
• Fenia Aivaloglou

Guests

• Marileen Smit
• Alaaeddin Swidan (also with OU)

Postdocs

• Anna van der Meulen
• Sabiha Yeni

PhD students

• Robert Holwerda
• Bas Jansen (also with TU Delft)
• Mozhan Soltani
• Olivier Goletti (also with Université catholique de Louvain)
• Shirley de Wit (also with VHTO)

MSc students

• Lizzy Scholten
• Bart Heemskerk
• Jacob Jonkman
• Shangyi Tang

BSc students

We currently do not have BSc students, reach out to Felienne if you are interested in joining!

Previous Members

• Marlies Aldewereld (PhD student 2017-2019)
• Tessa Krabbendam (BSc student 2019)
• Martijn Strating (BSc student 2019)
• Benjamin Bosdijk (BSc student 2019)
• Stef Dubbeldam (BSc student 2019)
• Charlotte Thepass (MSc student 2019)