Publications de Cécile Hardebolle

BEYOND “JUST PLAY WITH IT!”: A RUBRIC TO HELP TEACHERS DESIGN JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL EFFICIENCY

Jupyter notebooks offer multiple pedagogical scenarios for teaching computational competences in sciences and engineering courses.In this workshop, we want to help teachers design educational Jupyter notebooks so that their students go beyond “just playing ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

EQUITY AND EXAMINATION TIME PRESSURE IN FIRST YEAR MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERS

Simone Deparis, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Alexandra Corina Niculescu

The 'gender mathematics gap' which persists in many countries means that women students may, on average, have less high school preparation in mathematics than men students entering engineering education. This in turn could impact their performance in first ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Study Success And Failure Of STEM Students And The Connection To Their Learning Habits

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

With the educational expansion, ever more students start a tertiary degree. At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an engineering school, the number of bachelor students increased from 3'713 in 2010 to 6'330 in 2022. However, in Switzerland, a co ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2023

A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk

Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

2023

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Patrick Jermann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Vladimir Macko

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

Assessing Computational Thinking: Development and Validation of the Algorithmic Thinking Test for Adults

Olivier Lévêque, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Marc Lafuente Martinez

This study describes the development and validation process of a computational thinking (CT) test for adults. The team designed a set of items and explored a subset of those through two qualitative pilots. Then, in order to provide validity evidence based ...

2022

Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects?

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Cyril Picard, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of professional skills. In general, team-based projects are considered to be valuab ...

2022

Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years

Simone Deparis, Himanshu Verma, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Background Research shows that active pedagogies could play an important role in achieving more equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Although flipped classes are a popular active met ...

American Society for Engineering Education2022

A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Ester Simkova, Maria Carla Di Vincenzo, Helena Kovacs

The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Pascal Felber, Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Although it is frequently claimed that learning analytics can improve self-evaluation and self-regulated learning by students, most learning analytics tools appear to have been developed as a response to existing data rather than with a clear pedagogical m ...

2020

Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers

Patrick Jermann, Francisco Pereira Correia Pinto, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

This paper reports results of the deployment of a learning analytics dashboard in the context of introductory Maths, Physics and Chemistry courses in the first year of the Engineering bachelor of a Swiss technical university. Informed by research on self r ...

2019

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

2019

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

European Society for Engineering Education2018

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education?

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

How do students perceive academic success in secondary schools and in higher education?

Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

How do science and engineering students approach revisions? A self-regulated learning tool for supporting the transition from secondary to higher education

Roland John Tormey, Louis-Dominique Renaud, Cécile Hardebolle

2018

Creating a Smart Learning Space: Learning with and learning from student-generated data about learning

Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle

2017

Développement de l’utilisation des clickers à l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Cécile Hardebolle

Les clickers (boitier électroniques de votes) sont une technologie reconnue de longue date pour son efficacité pédagogique dans les cours ex-cathedra en grand groupes (Crouch et Mazur, 2001). Alors que l’adoption de cette technologie reste relativement lim ...

2016

The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education

Ingrid Le Duc, Siara Ruth Isaac, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle

In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...

2015