M.Sc. Marvin Ballat

Contact details:
Room: 49 - 310
Mail: Marvin.Ballat(at)cs.rptu.de
Phone: 0631 205 - 5970

Supervision:
Requests for theses: currently not possible

Consultation hours:
By appointment & pre-registration by e-mail

Vita

PeriodActivity
since 11/2025Research assistant in the working group subject didactics in technology (Prof. Dr. Leo van Waveren)
until 09/2025Studies at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau: Bachelor and Master of Science - Computer Science

Other activities

PeriodActivity
since 03/2026Member of the Senate at RPTU, Academic Staff status group
since 02/2026Board member of the Association for the Promotion of Computer Science e. V.
04/2025 - 09/2025Tutor at RPTU in the course "Algorithms and Data Structures"
10/2022 - 03/2023Tutor at RPTU in the course "Fundamentals of Programming"
10/2020 - 03/2021Tutor at RPTU in the course "Fundamentals of Programming"

Main research areas

  • Mental models in computer science
  • Feedback that promotes learning
  • Integration of new technologies

Awards and prizes

  • VLU Prize of the Computer Science Student Council for special commitment to teaching (for the winter semester 2020/21)

Research projects

Funding periodProject nameProject name
12/2026 -
11/2025
FLINK
(STiL)
FLINK: Feedback-supported learning support in computer science studies

Publications

2026

  • Ballat, M. (2026). Interactive Learning of Recursion: A Tool-Based Approach of Schools. In The 20th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE 2026), Aachen. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3801749.3801785.

2026

  • Ballat, M. (2026). Interactive Learning of Recursion: A Tool-Based Approach of Schools. Poster at The 20th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE 2026), 11-13.03.2026, Aachen.
  • Ballat, M.; Schiebelbein, E.; Bolender, M.; Bieniusa, A. & van Waveren, L. (2026). AI-supported feedback generation in programming teaching: Learning-effective feedback to address heterogeneity in prior knowledge. Poster at the Teaching-Learning Conference, 12.03.2026, Kaiserslautern.

Workshop offers for teachers

  • 09.03.2026, Fobizz for advanced students. AI study day at the BBS Pirmasens.