Professor Sarantos Psycharis
A highly experienced and devoted Professor who has made a significant contribution to many educational institutions throughout Europe. Professor Psycharis has published many papers in prestigious journals and has established various European-wide improved academic practices for Undergraduates, Postgraduates, and Fellow Professors alike. Throughout his career, he has also served as an Advisor to the Greek Minister of Education on issues related to the integration of ICT in Education, and Teacher Education Policies. He was also the Coordinator, representing the Greek Government – for the European Network of Teacher Education Policies (ENTEP), and for two years President of the Network and Evaluator for European Commission.
He also served as a Rector –and Chancellor of the Tertiary Institute “School of Pedagogical and Technological Education” ASPETE-Greece
Currently he is a Full Professor at the Higher Education Institute –School of Pedagogical and Technological Education –ASPETE- in the cognitive area «Education Applications of Computational Sciences”.
Bsc in Physics(National University of Athens) , PhD in Computational Physics(Glasgow University, UK) and Msc in Information Technology(National University of Athens). Prof. Psycharis has been supervisor of PhD and EdD students (in UK and Greece) , external examiner for PhD students, while he has been supervisor for numerous Msc Thesis.
He has the proven ability to engage academics from a wide range of disciplines and to lead inter-disciplinary programmes of research and engagement. Professor Psycharis has also substantial experience of teaching, supervision and examining at higher degree level at various Universities. He has worked at ASPETE and Other Universities in Europe, for Committees responsible for the design and development of educational material/curriculum for ICT-PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge) and STEM Education for teachers’ training curricula and the curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
He has published more than 120 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.
From 2015-2018 he was Scientific director of the Msc program “STEM in Education” a validated Msc program.
For a full CV you can visit http://sarantospsycharis.weebly.com/
Selected Current Publications
Psycharis, S. (2011),‘The Computational Experiment and its Effects on approach to Learning and Beliefs on Physics’. Computers & Education 56 (2011),pp 547–555(i.f 2,868).
Psycharis, S. (2013),‘Exploring the Effects of the Computational Experiment Approach to the Epistemic Beliefs, the Motivation, the Use of Modelling Indicators and Conceptual Understanding in Three Different Computational Learning Environments’. Journal of Education and Training Studies
Volume 1; April 2013-ISSN 2324-805X E-ISSN 2324-8068.
Psycharis,S., Chalatzoglidis,G., & Kalogiannakis,M.(2013). ‘Moodle as a Learning Environment in Promoting Conceptual Understanding for Secondary School Students’.EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.
EURASIA, Eurasia J. Math. Sci. & Tech. Ed.9(1), 167-176.
Psycharis, S. (2013).‘The Effects of the Computational Models on Learning Performance, Scientific Reasoning, Epistemic Beliefs and Argumentation’. Computers & Education- Volume 68, October 2013, Pages 253–265 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.05.015).
Psycharis, S.,Botsari,E.,Mantas, P.,& Loukeris, D.(2014),‘The impact of the Computational Inquiry Based Experiment on Metacognitive Experiences, Modelling Indicators and Learning Performance’. Computers & Education, CAE2501,PII:S0360-1315(13)00278-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.10.001
Psycharis, S., Botsari,E.& Chatzarakis, G.(2014),‘Examining the Effects of Learning Styles, Epistemic Beliefs and the Computational Experiment Methodology on Learners’ Performance Using the Easy Java Simulator Tool in STEM Disciplines. Journal of Educational Computing Research’; 2014, Volume 51(1). http://jrnledcompresearch.com/index.php/jecr
Psycharis, S. (2015). ‘The Impact of Computational Experiment and Formative Assessment in Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning Approach in STEM Education ; Journal of Science Education, and Technology 25(2),316-326 (JOST) DOI 10.1007/s10956-015-9595-z
Psycharis, S., (2016).‘Inquiry Based- Computational Experiment, Acquisition of Threshold Concepts and Argumentation in Science and Mathematics Education (Journal “Educational Technology & Society”- Volume 19, Issue 3, 2016.
Stauroulia,P.,Botsari,E., Psycharis,S., Kekkeris,G (2016).Emotional Experience in Simulated Classroom Training Enviroments. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/IJILT-10-2015-0030?journalCode=ijilt&,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJILT-10-2015-0030
Psycharis, S. ,Kalia, M.(2017). The Effects of Computer Programming on high school students’ problem solving, reasoning skills and self-efficacy in Mathematics; ,Instructional Science, 45(5), 583-602 10.1007/s11251-017-9421-5,
Psycharis,S.,Kalovrektis,K.,Sakelalridi,E.,&Korres,K.,Mastorodimos,D.(2017).U nfolding the Curriculum: Physical Computing, Computational Thinking and Computational Experiment in STEM’s Transdisciplinary Approach. European Journal of Engineering Research and Science (EJERS), I.F. 0.65. DOI 10.24018/ejers.2018.0., http://www.ejers.org/index.php/ejers/article/view/639/0
Psycharis, S (2018) STEAM in Education: A Literature review on the role of Computational Thinking, Engineering Epistemology and Computational Science. Computational STEAM Pedagogy (CSP). SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, Vol.4, No.2, 51-72.
Psycharis, S., & Kotzampasaki, E.(2018). The impact of a STEM Inquiry Game Learning scenario on Computational Thinking and Computer self-confidence. Accepted for publication. EURASIA, Eurasia J. Math. Sci. & Tech. Ed
Psycharis, S., Mastorodimos, D., Stergioulas, L., & Abbasi, M.(2018) .Visualization of Algorithms using Easy Java simulations and their impact in students motives and self-efficacy. Accepted for publication
