Research interests:

My research concerns the acquisition and measurement of programming skills. I am also interested in research on programming knowledge, abilities and expertise in general.

Publications:

Journals:

Bergersen, G. R., & Sjøberg, D. I. K. The effect of skill on the benefit of software development technologies. Submitted to journal.

Bergersen, G. R., & Gustafsson, J.-E. (2011). Programming skill, knowledge and working memory among professional software developers from an investment theory perspective. Journal of Individual Differences 32(4), 201–209. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000052.

Conference proceedings:

Bergersen, G. R., & Sjøberg, D. I. K. (2012). Evaluating methods and technologies in software engineering with respect to developer's skill level. In Proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'2012) (pp. 101–110). Ciudad Real, Spain: IET. doi:10.1049/ic.2012.0013.

Bergersen, G. R., Hannay, J. E., Sjøberg, D. I. K., Dybå, T., & Karahasanovic, A. (2011). Inferring skill from tests of programming performance: Combining quality and time. In Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'2011) (pp. 305–314). Banff, Canada: IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/ESEM.2011.39.

Bergersen. G. R. (2010). Combining time and correctness in the scoring of performance on items. In T. Nielsen, S. Kreiner, and J. Brodersen (Eds.) Proceedings of Probabilistic models for measurement in education, psychology, social science and health. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen.

Bergersen, G. R., & Hannay, J. E. (2010). Detecting learning and fatigue effects by inspection of person-item residuals. In T. Nielsen, S. Kreiner, and J. Brodersen (Eds.) Probabilistic models for measurement in education, psychology, social science and health. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Business School and the University of Copenhagen.

Invited lectures and non-scientific presentations:

Programming skills matter: How increased realism is changing the way developers are being evaluated. Invited company presentation. Holmsbu, Norway, Jun. 2012.

Programming skills matter: How increased realism is changing the way developers are being evaluated. Invited company presentation. Oslo, Norway, Jan. 2012.

Acquisition and assessment of professional programming skills. Invited lecture at Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 2010.

Inferring programming skill from programming performance: Construction and validation of a Rasch-based assessment instrument. Invited lecture at Advanced measurement theory (UVMET4150) at Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Feb. 2010.