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Nico Willert

Nico Willert

Research Fellow

WINF/Softwareentwicklung für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung
Institutsgebäude
Grimmaische Straße 12, Room IZ 28a
04109 Leipzig

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Abstract

Nico Willert is a research assistant at the Chair of Software Development at the Institute of Information Systems. His research covers the areas of programming theory, gamification, automated task verification and source code analysis. As part of the staff, he contributes to the lectures Software Engineering, Introduction to computer science, Basic and Advanced Programming Paradigms as well as other activities.

Professional career

  • since 06/2019
    Research Assistant, Information Systems Institute, Chair of Software Engineering, Leipzig University, Germany
  • 10/2018 - 02/2019
    Student Assistant, Information Systems Institute, Chair of Software Engineering, Leipzig University, Germany
  • 10/2016 - 03/2017
    Quality Assurance Engineer, Daedalic Entertainment GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

Education

  • 04/2020 - 01/2025
    PhD (Business Information Systems)
  • 10/2017 - 09/2019
    Master Degree in Business Information Systems at University Leipzig
  • 10/2014 - 09/2017
    Bachelor Degree in Business Information Systems at University Leipzig

  • Computer Science Education
  • Gamification
  • Automated Exercise Assessment
  • Source code analysis

  • Willert, N.
    A Systematic Literature Review of Gameful Feedback in Computer Science Education
    International Journal of Information and Education Technology. 2021. pp. 464/ No. 10–470.
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  • Willert, N.; Eriksson, J.
    Towards a feature-based didactic framework for generating individualized programming tasks for an e-learning environment
    ECSEE '23: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Engineering Education. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2023. pp. 246–255.
    ISBN: 978-1-4503-9956-2
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  • Willert, N.; Thiemann, J.
    Template-Based Generator for Single-Choice Questions
    Technology, Knowledge and Learning . 2024. pp. 355–370.
    DOI: 10.1007/s10758-023-09659-5
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  • Willert, N.; Würz, P. K.
    Assisting quality assurance of examination tasks: Using a GPT model and Bayesian testing for formative assessment
    Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 2025.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.caeai.2024.100343
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  • Willert, N.
    Enhancing Learning and Assessment in Computer Science Education
    Doctoral thesis. 2025.
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more publications

  • Programming (Basic and Advanced Programming in C++)
  • Software Engineering