Hello! I am Fenia (officially, Efthimia). I am Assistant Professor at the Web Information Systems group at the Technical University of Delft.

I am also a Psychology student at the University of Leiden.

Research

I do research in computing education. My research interests include collaborative learning, data science education, teaching approaches, informal and lifelong education, and gender diversity.

Here is a list of selected publications. For a full list, you can check google scholar.

  • Shirley de Wit et al. Gender Differences in Story, Game and Visual Adventures in Hedy, SPLASH-E 2024 (full paper)
  • Vivian van der Werf et al. Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices on the Naming of Variables in Introductory Python Programming Courses, ICSE-SEET 2024 (full paper)
  • Shirley de Wit et al. Gender, Social Interactions and Interests of Characters Illustrated in Scratch and Python Programming Books for Children. SIGCSE 2024 (paper and slides)
  • Daphne Miedema et al. “There is no ambiguity on what to return”: Investigating the Prevalence of SQL Misconceptions. In Koli Calling ’23 (full paper)
  • Shirley de Wit et al. Children’s interest in a CS Career: Exploring Age, Gender, Computer Interests, Programming Experience and Stereotypes. In ICER ’23 (paper, materials, and dataset)
  • Daphne Miedema et al. Students’ Perceptions on Engaging Database Domains and Structures. ACM SIGCSE 2023 (full paper)
  • Vivian van der Werf et al. Variables in Practice. An Observation of Teaching Variables in Introductory Programming MOOCs. ACM ITiCSE 2023 (full paper)
  • Daphne Miedema et al. Expert Perspectives on Student Errors in SQL. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ, 2022 (full paper)
  • Daphne Miedema et al. So many brackets! An analysis of how SQL learners (mis) manage complexity during query formulation. In ICPC ’22 (full paper)
  • Shirley de Wit et al. Children’s Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes on the Gender, Social Skills, and Interests of a Computer Scientist. In ICER ’21 (dataset, full paper)
  • Daphne Miedema et al. Identifying SQL Misconceptions of Novices: Findings from a Think-Aloud Study. In ICER ’21 (summary, presentation, full paper)
  • Efthimia Aivaloglou and Anna van der Meulen. An Empirical Study of Students’ Perceptions on the Setup and Grading of Group Programming Assignments. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ, 21(3), March 2021 (summary, pdf)
  • Anna van der Meulen, Efthimia Aivaloglou. Who Does What? Work Division and AllocationStrategies of Computer Science Student Teams. ICSE SEET 2021 (summary, pdf)
  • Efthimia Aivaloglou and Felienne Hermans. How is programming taught in code clubs? Exploring the experiences and gender perceptions of code club teachers. In Koli Calling ’19 (summary, pdf, presentation recorded at the Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium 2020)
  • Efthimia Aivaloglou and Felienne Hermans. Early Programming Education and Career Orientation: the Effects of Gender, Self-Efficacy, Motivation and Stereotypes. ACM SIGCSE 2019 (summary, pdf)

Teaching

I am teaching/have taught the following courses:

Project supervision

PhD researchers

MSc students

If you are interested to do an MSc thesis with me, please contact me. You can choose any of the currently available topics or propose one that I can supervise.

  • Esha Dutta: Gender gap in computer science careers
  • Merel Steenbergen (graduated in October 2024): Group dynamics in programming assignments
  • Casper Hildebrand (graduated in June 2024): Motivations and Engagement in Introductory Computer Science MOOCs
  • Zeger Mouw (graduated in April 2024): Human Interaction in Tabular Data Augmentation in Data Science Workflows
  • Francis Behnen (graduated in April 2024): Startup-student collaboration in software engineering student projects
  • Marco Jansen (graduated in February 2022): Grading software engineering group projects based on individual contributions.
  • Jelmer Golsteijn (graduated in July 2022): Identifying age and gender and analyzing their relation to programming behaviour of Scratch users.
  • Tanishq Likhi (graduated in February 2022): Effects of the power distance index on multicultural software engineering teams.
  • Zaher Alyousef (graduated in December 2021): Challenges in low code development.
  • Ben Nieuwhof (graduated in July 2021): Attractiveness of Open Source Software projects to new contributors.
  • Shangyi Tang (graduated in December 2020): Clustering Scratch programs.
  • Jan Jaap Sandee (graduated in October 2020): Using metrics mined from software repositories to assist in individual guidance of students’ group programming projects.
  • Ad Zeevaarders (graduated in July 2020): Exploring the learning progression of Scratch users.
  • Orla Dijkink (graduated in April 2020): Occurrence of code smells in low-code.

Tools & Datasets

Contact

Email address: E.Aivaloglou@tudelft.nl

Visiting address: TU Delft Building 28 – Room W.3.680, Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6, 2628 XE, Delft