Research

Publications

2025

  • ICSE-SEIS: Emily Vorderwülbeke and Isabella Graßl. Belonging Beyond Code: Queer Software Engineering and Humanities Student Experiences. In The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), 2025.

2024

  • Dissertation: Isabella Graßl. Diversity in Programming Education: Effects of Topic and Group Constellation on Young Programming Novices. 2024.
  • Softw Syst Model: Liebel, G., Klünder, J., Hebig, R., Lazik, C., Nunes, I., Graßl, I., Steghöfer, J.-P., Exelmans, J., Oertel, J., & Marquardt, K. Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE. Softw Syst Model 23, 801–819, 2024.
  • ICSE-SEET: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Coding to Cope: Teaching Programming to Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 2024.
  • ICSE-SEET: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Girls Rocking the Code: Gender-dependent Stereotypes, Engagement & Comprehension in Music Programming. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 2024.
  • ICSE-SEET: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Equitable Student Collaboration in Pair Programming. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 2024.
  • SIGCSE TS: Luisa Greifenstein, Isabella Graßl, Ute Heuer, and Gordon Fraser. “Help Me Solve It” or “Solve It For Me”: Effects of Feedback on Children Building and Programming Robots. In Proceedings of the Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2024.

2023

  • ICSE-SEET: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. The ABC of Pair Programming: Gender-dependent Attitude, Behavior and Code of Young Learners. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 2023.
  • ICSE-SEET: Isabella Graßl, Gordon Fraser, Stefan Trieflinger, and Marco Kuhrmann. Exposing Software Engineering Students to Stressful Projects: Does Diversity Matter? In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 2023.
  • ECSEE: Isabella Graßl, Stephan Krusche, and Gordon Fraser. Diversity and Teamwork in Student Software Teams. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Engineering Education, 2023.
  • GI: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Musikprogrammierung als universeller Motivator in der Programmierausbildung. Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2023.

2022

  • ICSE-SEIS: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Scratch as Social Network: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in Scratch Projects. In The 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS), 2022.
  • WiPSCE: Luisa Greifenstein, Isabella Graßl, Ute Heuer, and Gordon Fraser. Common Problems and Effects of Feedback on Fun When Programming Ozobots in Primary School. In The 17th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2022.
  • WiPSCE: Isabella Graßl and Gordon Fraser. Gender-dependent Contribution, Code and Creativity in a Virtual Programming Course. In The 17th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2022.
  • ICSE-Companion: Isabella Graßl. Diversity in Programming Education: Help Underrepresented Groups Learn Programming. In 2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion), pages 272–274. IEEE, 2022.
  • EDM: Benedikt Fein, Isabella Graßl, Florian Beck, and Gordon Fraser. An Evaluation of code2vec Embeddings for Scratch. In The 15th Iteration of the Educational Data Mining Conference Series, 2022.

2021

  • WiPSCE: Isabella Graßl, Katharina Geldreich, and Gordon Fraser. Data-driven Analysis of Gender Differences and Similarities in Scratch Programs. In The 16th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, pages 1–10, 2021.
  • Koli Calling: Luisa Greifenstein, Isabella Graßl, and Gordon Fraser. Challenging but Full of Opportunities: Teachers’ Perspectives on Programming in Primary Schools. In 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, pages 1–10, 2021. (Both authors contributed equally to this research.)
  • Springer: Bergmann, Naomi, and Isabella Graßl. “Flattery will get you nowhere—But don’t stop trying”: Entwicklung des Weiblichkeitsdiskurses anhand der Bond-Girls. In The Spy who impressed me: Zur kollektiven Wirkung und kulturellen Bedeutung von James Bond-Filmen: 115-146, 2021.