further information about Dr. Pascal Fischer
22.05.2013 Doctorate (Dr. phil.). Dissertation topic: Mathematical pre-courses in blended learning format. Construction, evaluation and scientific evaluation.
06.06.2007 provisional acceptance as doctoral student (Dr. phil.) in the Department of Mathematics, University of Kassel, start of doctoral preparation in Mathematics, University of Kassel.
Summer semester 2005 and winter semester 2005/ 2006 PhD preparation Geography, University of Kassel Final examination and acceptance as PhD student (Dr. phil.) on 26.04.2006
Summer semester 2001 - summer semester 2004 Teacher training for secondary schools, subjects mathematics and geography at the University of Kassel, Graduation: First State Examination
since 01.11.2011 employee at the Teaching Service Center of the University of Kassel 01. 05.2009 - 30.06.2012 work as research assistant in the EU-project "Math-Bridge" 01. 02.2007 - 30.10.2011 research assistant in the project VEMA/ Multimediavorkurs MathematiK 01.11.2006 - 31.01.2007 research assistant for Mrs. Specovius-Neugebauer in the course "Mathematical Applications" as exercise group leader and coordinator 5 .12.2004 - 31.10.2006 mathematical-technical employee in the VEMA-project in the department of mathematics/ computer science at the University of Kassel, from 01.05.2006 to 31.10.2006 as research assistant. He worked on the didactical and content-related development of the interactive pre-course script as well as on the organizational level in the context of the cooperation project with the TU Darmstadt. 01.12.2004 - 31.12.2004 student assistant in the context of the VEMA project/ multimedia pre-course in mathematics.
Borchard, C.; Fischer, P. & Frommann, U.: 10 Jahre E-Klausuren an der Universität Kassel. In: M. Schulze (Ed.): Historical Heritage and Contemporary Information Infrastructures: Libraries at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Festschrift for Axel Halle. Kassel: kassel university press 2020, pp. 313 - 325.
Fischer, P. R.: Mathematical pre-courses in blended learning format. Design, implementation and scientific evaluation. wiesbaden: Springer Spektrum 2014.
Bausch, I.; Biehler, R.; Bruder, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Hochmuth, R.; Koepf, W.; Schreiber; S. & Wassong, T. (Eds.): Mathematische Vor- und Brückenkurse. Wiesbaden 2014.
Bausch, I.; Fischer, P.; & Oesterhaus, J.: Facets of blended learning scenarios for the interactive learning material VEMINT - Design and evaluation results at the partner universities Kassel, Darmstadt and Paderborn. In: Bausch , I.; Biehler, R.; Bruder, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Hochmuth, R.; Koepf, W.; Schreiber; S. & Wassong, T. (Eds.): Mathematical pre- and bridge courses. Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 87-102.
Bausch, I.; Biehler, R.; Bruder, R.; Fischer, P.; Hochmuth, R.; Koepf, W., et al: VEMINT - Interactive learning material for mathematical pre- and bridge courses. In: Bausch , I.; Biehler, R.; Bruder, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Hochmuth, R.; Koepf, W.; Schreiber; S. & Wassong, T. (Eds.): Mathematische Vor- und Brückenkurse. Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 261-276.
Wassong, T.; Frischemeier, D.; Fischer, P.R.; Hochmuth, R.; Bender, P. (Eds.): Mit Werkzeugen Mathematik und Stochastik lernen - Using Tools for Learning Mathematics and Statistics. Wiebaden 2014.
Biehler, R.; Fischer, P.; Hochmuth, R. & Wassong, T.: A comparative study on the use of Math-Bridge and VEMINT at the Universities of Kassel and Paderborn. In Bausch, I.; Biehler, R.; Bruder, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Hochmuth, R.; Koepf, W.; Schreiber; S. & Wassong, T. (Eds.): Mathematical pre- and bridge courses. Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 103-121.
Biehler, R., Fischer, P. R., Hochmuth, R., & Wassong, T.: Mathematische Vorkurse neu gedacht: Das Projekt VEMA. In: M. Zimmermann, C. Bescherer & C. Spannagel (Eds.): Teaching mathematics in higher education - Didactic innovations for prerequisite courses, exercises and lectures (pp. 21-33). Hildesheim/ Berlin 2012. Fischer, P. R. & Biehler, R.:
Biehler, Rolf; Hochmuth, Reinhard; Fischer, Pascal; Wassong, Thomas: Remedial scenarios for online and blended learning bridging courses. Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Rzeszow, Poland 2012. pp. 2985-2986.
On the heterogeneity of our first-year students. Results of an empirical study of participants in mathematics prerequisite courses. In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2011. Freiburg 2011, pp. 255-258. Biehler, R.; Hochmuth, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Wassong, T.: Transition from school to university in mathematics problems and approaches. In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2011. Freiburg 2011, pp. 111-114. Hochmuth, R.; Biehler, R.; Fischer, P. R.; Wassong, T.: Individual learning in the context of mathematics bridge courses - Math-Bridge: A workshop report. In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2011. Freiburg 2011, pp. 395-398. Biehler, R., Fischer, P., Hochmuth, R., &Wassong, T.: Designing and evaluating blended learning bridging courses in mathematics. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Rzeszow, Poland 2011. Biehler, R., Fischer, P. R., Hochmuth, R., & Wassong, T.: Self-regulated learning and self-assessment in online bridging courses. In: A. A. Juan, M. A. Huertas, S. Trenholm & C. Steegmann (Eds.), Teaching Mathematics Online: Emergent Technologies and Methodologies (pp. 216-237). IGI Global 2011. Hochmuth, R., & Fischer, P. R.: eLearning in mathematics prerequisite courses with examples on calculus. In: On the future of calculus teaching in the light of the availability of new media (and tools). Report on the 27th Workshop of the Working Group "Mathematics Education and Computer Science" in the GDM, September 25-27, 2009, Soest. Franzbecker 2011.
Biehler, R.; Hochmuth, R.; Fischer, P.; Jeuring, J.; Wassong, T: How to support students learning in mathematical bridging courses using an ITS? Remedial scenarios in the European project Math-Bridge. Paper for the conference: Student Mobility and ICT: World in Transition 2010.
Biehler, R. et al.: Math-Bridge: Deliverable 1.2 - Content and Assessment Tools 2010. Biehler, R.; Hochmuth, R.; Fischer, P.; Wassong, T.: Math-Bridge: Deliverable 1.3 - Pedagogical Remedial Scenarios 2010. Fischer, P. R., & Biehler, R.: An individualized eVorkurs for 400 students and more. A solution approach for mathematical bridge courses with high enrollment. In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2010. Münster 2010, pp. 297-300 Biehler, R.; Hochmuth, R.; Fischer, P.; Wassong, T.: Math-Bridge: Deliverable 1.1 - target competencies (2009). Biehler, R.; Fischer, P.; Maitzen, C.; Maxara, C.; Nieder, T.: Evaluation of SINUS-Hessen 2005 - 2007. Final report of the SINUS-Quest project. University of Kassel: Kassel Online Library Repository & Archive, 2009. URL: kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2009102930799 Fischer, P. R.: E-learning between school and university? Results of an empirical study on the use of an e-variant of mathematical bridge courses: In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2009. Münster 2009, pp. 91-94 Fischer, P. R.: vem@-online: An e-learning precourse for the individualized elimination of mathematical deficits: In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2008. Münster 2008, pp. 59-62. Fischer, P. R.: E-learning as a more efficient means of bridging the gap between school and university? In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2007. Hildesheim/ Berlin 2007, pp. 779-782. Biehler, R., & Fischer, P. R.: VEMA - Virtual Entrance Tutorial Mathematics. In: Contributions to Mathematics Education 2006. Hildesheim/ Berlin 2006, pp. 195-198.
Workshop with presentation titled "Using e-assessments for testing competence-oriented learning outcomes" at the Pre-conference of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) International Conference on Higher Education in November 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Presentation "Legally compliant and competence-oriented e-examinations integrating third-party software -solution approaches from the e-assessment center of the University of Kassel" at the e-examination symposium in December 2014 at RWTH Aachen University.
Presentation "Guided vs. self-regulated learning? Answers of VEMINT to the heterogeneity in the study entrance phase" together with T. Mai at the eLearning Fachforum in Frankfurt in November 2014.
Presentation "Evaluation of mathematical pre-courses in blended learning format: concepts and results " at the annual conference of the GDM in Koblenz in March 2014.
Lecture "Didactic Design Patterns: An Introduction" together with U. Frommann and I. Schiller at the expert forum "Didactic Design Patterns for Blended Learning" in June 2013 at the University of Kassel.
Talk "Blended Learning Scenarios for Pre-Course Mathematics in the VEMINT Project - Design and Research Results" in the context of the mathematics didactics colloquium at the University of Würzburg in June 2013.
Presentations "On the heterogeneity of our first-year students. Results of an Empirical Investigation of Participants of Mathematical Pre-Courses", "Transition from School to University in Mathematics Problems and Approaches" and "Individual Learning in the Context of Mathematical Bridge Courses - Math-Bridge: A Workshop Report" at the Annual Meeting of the GDM in February 2011 in Freiburg.
Presentation together with J. Klemm & A. Lompe under the title "Multimediavorkurs MathematiK/ VEMA Kassel - Darmstadt - Paderborn" at the interface activity "S5 - Mathematische Brückenkurse" at the joint annual conference of the GDM & the DMV in March 2010 in Munich.
Presentation "An individualized eVorkurs for 400 students and more - a solution approach for mathematical bridge courses with high numbers of participants" at the joint annual conference of the GDM & the DMV in March 2010 in Munich.
Presentation at the Mathematics Didactics Colloqium of the Institute for the Development and Research of Mathematics Education (IEEM) at the TU Dortmund University under the title "Independent e-learning with diagnostic tests at the interface between school and university! Concept, evaluation and results of a course" on 21.01.2010.
Lecture with R. Hochmuth at the conference of the GDM- Arbeitskreis Mathematik und Informatik 2009 in Soest under the title "Analysis and eLEarning in mathematical pre-courses".
Lecture "E-Learning between school and university? Results of a study on the use of an e-variant of mathematical bridge courses" at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) in Oldenburg in March 2009.
Presentation "E-Learning between school and university? First Results of a Study on the Use of an E-Variant of Mathematical Bridge Courses" at the didactical colloquium at the Department of Mathematics of the Ludwigsburg University of Education on 21.01.2009.
Lecture together with R. Biehler & T. Wassong on the topic "Selbstgesteuertes Lernen und Prüfen in mathematischen Online-Lernszenarien" at the Forum ProLehre: Bologna gestalten on 18.12.2008 in Kassel.
Lecture "vem@-online: An e-learning precourse for the individualized elimination of mathematical deficits" at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) in March 2008 in Budapest.
E-learning course as part of the BfD as a mathematics tutorial for trainees in business administration.
Course at b+b educations under the topic "Mathematics for freshmen" for the BfD of the German Armed Forces from 10.12. - 14.12.2007.
Together with T. Hofmann workshop under the title "Elementary Stochastics interactive - concepts and experiences for the use of dynamic tool software in stochastics classes" at the SINUS-Transfer-Congress on May 12, 2007 at the Congresszentrum Damp
Course at b+b educations under the topic "Mathematics for freshmen" for the BfD of the German Federal Armed Forces from 07.05. - 11.05.2007
Lecture "E-Learning as a more efficient means for bridging the gap between school and university? " at the joint annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) in Berlin in March 2007
Lecture at the seminar "Working with e-media in teaching" for universities of applied sciences at the Hochschule Darmstadt in May 2006
Lecture under the title "VEMA - Virtual Entrance Tutorial Mathematics" at the federal conference of the Society for Didactics of Mathematics (GDM) in Osnabrück in March 2006
Lecture at the E-Learning-Workshop 2005 in Kassel (substitute for Prof. Dr. R. Biehler, presentation of the VEMA project) and booth presentation
Commission for Information Management (KIM) of the Presidential Board of the University of Kassel (until 2011)
Working Group e-Learning Project Funding (until 2011) Scientific Advisory Board of the Teaching Service Center of the University of Kassel (until 2011) Society for Didactics of Mathematics (GDM) Working Group Mathematics Education and Computer Science Working Group University Didactics Mathematics Associate Member of the Competence Center University Didactics Mathematics (KHDM)
2004 - 2018 Musical director of the youth orchestra of the Marchingband Bachrain 2002 - 2018 Youth director and deputy musical director of the Marchingband Bachrain