Pair Programming as a Didactical Approach in Higher Education and its Evaluation

To handle heterogeneity within students, to foster needed generic competencies, to motivate them, and to increase their employability, Pair Programming seems to be a suitable didactical method to teach and learn programming. In this context, Pair Programming was used in programming lessons and its effectiveness was evaluated. This paper presents the results of the evaluations in order to derive whether Pair Programming is a suitable method to meet the mentioned challenges in a didactically meaningful way.