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Final grades play a decisive role in the selection of future teachers: School-leaving grades (Abitur) determine admission to university, and university degree grades, in turn, are considered in the assessment process for the practical part of teacher training at schools (induction phase). Even in the application process for permanent positions at s...
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Teachers differ substantially in their instructional performance in the classroom. Thus, researchers and policymakers are interested in how these differences can be explained and how the instruction provided by low‐performing teachers can be improved. Previous research has focused either on generic (cognitive ability and personality) or...
Teaching effectiveness has often been described from a variable-centered perspective according to instructional, organizational, and emotional teaching characteristics and their prediction of students’ outcomes. Adopting a person-centered approach, the present study analyzed how multiple variables of teaching quality co-occur simultaneously within...
Beginning teachers often feel disillusioned and stressed during their first years of teaching. In the present study, we investigated changes in teacher candidates’ constructivist beliefs and emotional exhaustion. We assessed 163 German mathematics teacher candidates 3 times: at the beginning of, in the middle of, and after they completed the induct...
In this contribution, we investigate links between teacher competence, teaching quality, and student outcomes in elementary science education. Students' conceptual understanding and interest were measured during two teaching units in a pre-post design (1070 students, 54 classes). Results show that teacher competence (pedagogical content knowledge,...
The aim of the present study is to examine if teachers’ professional beliefs accounted for differences in self-reported instructional quality in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. N = 194 German mathematics teachers were surveyed during the pandemic in 2021 about their instructional quality (potential for cognitive activation, distance...
Introduction
Teacher enthusiasm is an undisputedly important characteristic of teachers, with demonstrated positive effects on student outcomes. Existing research typically operationalised teacher enthusiasm via trait‐based teacher‐ or student ratings. Strikingly little is known about how teachers' trait enthusiasm manifests in their actual in‐situ...
Wissenstransfer erfolgt dann, wenn ein Bedarf an Informationen zum Umgang mit Herausforderungen und Problemen entsteht (Krause & Möller, 2008; Case & Given, 2016). Trotz evidenzfordernder Standards (European Comission, 2007) präferieren Lehrkräfte statt Forschungswissen eher Anekdoten und Erfahrungswissen (Bråten & Ferguson, 2015; Kiemer & Kollar,...
Thin slices ratings (i.e., ratings based on first impressions) have yielded intriguingly accurate results in various domains. Among other, researcher have applied the thin slices technique to assess instructional quality, showing that teacher-student interactions can be reliably inferred by just very short snippets of classroom instruction. The acc...
Utility value interventions are one approach to promote students’ interest experience and performance. It is unexplored how utility value interventions affect attention besides enjoyment and perceived value as important aspect of interest experience. The present research investigated the effects of a directly-communicated utility value intervention...
The present study aimed to investigate the relative predictive power of teachers’ beliefs about cooperative learning, their participation in professional development courses on cooperative learning, emotional exhaustion, and the frequency of cooperative learning implementation before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic for the frequency of cooper...
There are a variety of instruments for measuring interaction quality of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers. However, these instruments are extremely resource-demanding in terms of time and money. Hence, a more economical and yet accurate method for measuring interaction quality of ECEC teachers would be desirable. The so-called thin...
We investigated two sources of classroom management knowledge in 93 pre-service teachers. The first research question focused on knowledge from university studies, which is thought to be evidence-based knowledge, and whether its use for problem solving in the classroom can be fostered by means of knowledge activation. The experiment showed that kno...
Wir stellen im Beitrag ein sich im Aufbau befindende Clearinghouse-Portal vor, das thematisch Grundschulkinder im unteren Leistungsbereich fokussiert. Zunächst wird anhand von Befragungsergebnissen aufgezeigt, wie Grundschullehrkräfte dem Transfer- und Partizipationsangebot der Wissenschaft gegenüberstehen und welche Wünsche sie an ein Clearinghous...
Stereotypes about pupils with special educational needs are prevalent both in society and among pre- and in-service teachers. However, little is known about the specific stereotypes pre-service teachers associate with autistic pupils, pupils with Down syndrome, and pupils with dyslexia. We explored these in two studies. Study 1 (N=13) involved qual...
Developing and maintaining constructivist beliefs and high levels of enthusiasm are important goals in the teaching profession. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated beliefs and enthusiasm of N = 856 German mathematics teacher (candidates) longitudinally. Results of latent growth curve modeling revealed that teachers’ constructivist beli...
Background
In times of accelerating changes, teachers who proactively engage in activities towards school improvement and innovation are increasingly needed. Still, studies on factors that affect teachers' proactive behaviour are rare.
Aims
Integrating previous research on proactive behaviour within the Job Demand–Resources (JD‐R) Model, this pape...
The study investigated the effectiveness of reverse mentoring as an innovative instructional method to promote pre- and in-service teachers’ digital competence. We conducted a quasi-experimental intervention study with 90 pre-service and 57 in-service teachers who took part in two-day online-workshops. The effectiveness of the reverse mentoring-int...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers reported low levels of well-being. Lower levels of well-being can negatively impact job performance and teaching quality. This study aims to examine whether the quality of teaching changed between before and during the pandemic, in two settings: remote and restricted in-person settings, and whether teachers’ w...
Vortrag auf der LAP-Abschlusskonferenz. Der Weg vom Lehramtsstudium in den Lehrkraftberuf
Zusammenfassung
Die Unterrichtsqualitätsforschung hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten viel zum Verständnis der Merkmale beitragen, die einen qualitätsvollen Unterricht auszeichnen. Sie hat einflussreiche Modelle hervorgebracht, die eine gemeinsame Grundlage für die Erforschung des Unterrichts bereitstellen. Gleichzeitig bringen gesellschaftliche Ver...
Because of the sudden removal of teachers’ work routines, we investigated pandemic-related changes in mathematics teachers’ emotional exhaustion and teaching enthusiasm. We drew on data from a 15-year longitudinal study, including four prepandemic (2007–2019) and two pandemic (2021 and 2022) measurement points. During the COVID-19 pandemic, N = 194...
Teachers’ belief systems about the inclusion of students with special needs may explain gaps between policy and practice. We investigated three inter-related aspects of teachers’ belief systems: teachers’ cognitive appraisals (e.g., attitudes), emotional appraisal (e.g., feelings), and self-efficacy (e.g., agency to teach inclusive classrooms). To...
In der Studie wird untersucht, welche Formen und Ausprägungen der Einbeziehung von Praxisperspektiven in Forschungsprojekten realisiert werden. Es wird ein theoriegeleitetes Kodierschema vorgestellt und auf Interviews aus sieben Bildungsforschungsprojekten angewendet. Alle Forschenden berücksichtigen Praxisperspektiven in ihrer Arbeit, wobei hinsic...
Lehramtsstudierende berichten bereits früh in ihrem Studium über belastende Situationen und Stress, was zur Folge hat, dass das Wohlbefinden abnimmt (Zimmermann et al., 2018). Da negative Faktoren, neben Einbußen im Wohlbefinden, möglicherweise auch zu Studienabbruch führen können, überprüft unsere Studie eine Ressource aus der sozialen Lernumgebun...
The present study explores how multiple teacher characteristics (i.e., knowledge, beliefs, self-efficacy, and self-regulation) co-occur within 649 German teacher candidates at the end of pre-service teacher education and how these profiles are related to teachers’ future occupational well-being. A latent profile analysis identified one highly knowl...
Student teachers’ well-being is particularly important in times of teacher shortage. To prevent student dropout and promote students’ well-being, demands and resources within university teacher education need to be identified. Demands like workload or time pressure can lead to emotional exhaustion in the long-term, while resources like emotional su...
As knowledge derived from scientific theory can be helpful for teachers to reflect on their everyday teaching, universities have the challenging task of teaching this knowledge in such a way that pre-service teachers are able to apply it to their later teaching. Case-based learning has emerged as a promising method to foster pre-service teachers’ s...
Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von individuellen Merkmalen (Fähigkeitsselbstkonzept und Leistungsängstlichkeit) sowie von konstruktiver Unterstützung durch Lehrkräfte für die soziale Integration von Schülerinnen und Schülern in der Sekundarstufe. Bezüglich des Unterrichtsqualitätsmerkmals der konstruktiven Unterst...
This study investigates the relationship between teacher quality and teachers’ engagement in professional development (PD) activities using data on 229 German secondary school mathematics teachers. We assessed different aspects of teacher quality (e.g. professional knowledge, instructional quality) using a variety of measures, including standardise...
Various approaches of assessing instructional quality have emerged in educational research. In this article, we present two studies that apply the thin slices procedure, investigating the reliability and validity of the ratings of three dimensions of instructional quality based solely on the first impressions of untrained social observers. Thirty u...
The present study explores how multiple teacher characteristics (i.e., knowledge, beliefs, self-efficacy, and self-regulation) co-occur within 649 German teacher candidates at the end of pre-service teacher education and how these profiles are related to teachers’ future occupational well-being. A latent profile analysis identified one highly knowl...
Research has suggested that teachers’ beliefs toward culturally diverse classrooms are affected during teacher education. Text reading, as one of the major learning activities in initial teacher education, is supposed to affect teachers’ educational concepts and beliefs. We conducted two experiments to test the impact of reading a positively or neg...
Das „Handbuch Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung“ bietet aus fachlicher, fachdidaktischer, bildungswissenschaftlicher und schulpraktischer Perspektive einen umfassenden forschungsbasierten Überblick zu allen Bereichen der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Das von 174 Autorinnen und Autoren erarbeitete Orientierungswissen wird in 107 Beiträgen präsentiert...
The present study investigates the role of sense of belonging on dropout intention in teacher education with a special focus on immigrant teacher students. We present data from a survey of 925 German teacher students using two times of measurement. The results confirm the significance of sense of belonging for the dropout rate among students in tea...
As society becomes increasingly digital, teachers must be trained to integrate technology effectively into their classrooms. Teachers’ technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), as defined in the TPACK framework, is considered an important prerequisite for effectively integrating technology. The TPACK framework has received a great deal of attentio...
Lehrkräfte sind zentrale Akteure im Bildungssystem. Dass sie einen substanziellen Einfluss auf das Lernen und die Entwicklung ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler haben können, ist auch aus empirischer Sicht unstrittig. Warum jedoch manche Lehrkräfte erfolgreicher als andere sind und welche persönlichen Voraussetzungen dies bestimmen, soll in diesem Kapi...
Zusammenfassung. In den vergangenen Jahren nahm die Zahl der nicht-traditionell ausgebildeten Lehrkräfte in Deutschland kontinuierlich zu. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag, inwiefern sich Quereinsteiger und traditionell ausgebildete Lehramtsanwärter im Vorbereitungsdienst hinsichtlich ihrer professionellen Kompetenz untersc...
In recent decades, the assessment of instructional quality has grown into a popular and well-funded arm of educational research. The present study contributes to this field by exploring first impressions of untrained raters as an innovative approach of assessment. We apply the thin slice procedure to obtain ratings of instructional quality along th...
Es liegen bisher nur wenige Instrumente vor, um Überzeugungen von Lehrpersonen zum Unterrichten in heterogenen Klassen im Sinne eines breiten Inklusionsbegriffs zu untersuchen. In drei Studien wurden die Struktur und die Validität von drei Skalen zu Überzeugungen zum Unterrichten in heterogenen Klassen von Lehramtsstudierenden untersucht. Die Skale...
Teachers’ generic educational knowledge theoretically constitutes an aspect of their professional competence. However, empirical evidence for its importance for teachers’ daily practice is scarce. In this chapter, we describe findings from the BilWiss research program, which aimed to investigate the development and relevance of the type of generic...
Eine aktive Beteiligung am Unterrichtsgespräch gilt als wichtiger Baustein schulischen Lernens und als Indikator für
bildungsbezogene
Partizipation. In der vorliegenden Studie wurden mittels Video-Kodierungen von Schüler-Lehrkraft-Interaktionen die individuelle
Beteiligung von N = 628 Schülerinnen und Schülern im naturwissenschaftlichen Sachunterri...
In their studies on educational foundations as a part of academic teacher education in Germany, pre-service teachers are supposed to develop generic knowledge needed for professional behavior in their job as a teacher. The research program BilWiss developed a test on educational knowledge within the context of the federal state of North-Rhine Westp...
German pre-service teacher education aims to foster the concurrent formation of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge. Accordingly, the coordination, sequencing, and prioritization of learning opportunities for the three areas of professional knowledge represent vital issues of the organization of teacher educa...
Neben einem Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag, der sich vorrangig in der Unterrichtstätigkeit von Lehrkräften niederschlägt und auf verschiedene Lern- und Entwicklungsziele der Schülerinnen und Schüler hin ausgerichtet ist, haben Lehrkräfte die Aufgabe, Schülerinnen und Schüler sowie Eltern zu beraten (Schullaufbahnempfehlungen, Lerngespräche), Schul...
From a constructivist perspective on learning, mistakes are seen as natural elements of learning processes. A supportive and constructive way of dealing with student mistakes has shown to affect students’ individual motivation and learning performances in a favorable way. In classroom settings, however, making mistakes is not just a personal but al...
Pedagogical content knowledge forms the core of teachers’ professional knowledge; it refers to knowledge about making subject matter accessible to students. Thus, the formation of pedagogical content knowledge constitutes a crucial issue for educational research and practice. We investigated the contributions of content knowledge and pedagogical kn...
Das bildungswissenschaftliche Wissen (BW) als Facette professionellen Wissens von Lehrkräften gewinnt in der empirischen Forschung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse basieren auf der Annahme, dass BW fachunabhängig konzeptualisiert und im Rahmen der universitären Lehrerbildung aufgebaut wird. Es wird daher geprüft, ob BW üb...
In the present chapter we introduce theoretical and empirical approaches to the construct of diagnostic competence within the COACTIV research program. We report eight conceptualizations and operationalizations of diagnostics skills and add in addition three constructs that seem to be close to diagnostic skills. Correlational analyses reveal only m...
Dealing with students of different abilities in class is a topic of major importance in educational research and practice. While a number of strategies have been implemented to reduce class heterogeneity, there is little empirical evidence of their benefits. Rather, classroom processes are assumed to play a vital role in the effect of heterogeneity...
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—that is, knowledge necessary to make subject matter accessible to students—is considered to be a key component of teacher competence. Thus, how teachers develop PCK is an important issue for educational research and practice. Our study aimed at investigating the conditions of development of PCK, and especially at...
The job demands-resources model (JD-R model; Bakker & Demerouti, 2014) is well established in occupational research, and the proposed processes it posits have been replicated numerous times. Thus, the JD-R model provides an excellent framework for explaining the occupational well-being of beginning teachers—an occupation associated with particularl...
Ein Nachteil von videobasierten Unterrichtsanalysen besteht in ihrem hohen Kosten- und Zeitaufwand. In der vorliegenden Studie wird die Möglichkeit geprüft, Unterrichtsmerkmale anhand stark verkürzter Beobachtungen, eines ersten Eindrucks, zu erfassen. Angewandt wurde dabei das so genannte Thin-Slices-Verfahren, ein Verfahren, anhand dessen bereits...
Ein empirisch bisher noch wenig erschlossener Bereich der universitären Lehrerbildung ist der bildungswissenschaftliche Studienteil, in dem Lehren und Lernen, Bildung und Erziehung fachunabhängig behandelt werden. Das Projekt Bildungswissenschaftliches Wissen und der Erwerb professioneller Kompetenz in der Lehramtsausbildung (BilWiss) hat zum Ziel,...
The present study investigates whether productive classroom discourse in the form of instructional and motivational classroom discourse (Turner et al., Journal of Educational Psychology 94: 88–106, 2002) provides a supportive social context for students that fosters the fulfilment of the basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence (Meyer a...
Dealing with heterogeneous students often implies an adaptation of the sight structures of classroom instruction. Yet, in comparison to sight structures, the quality of deep structures (classroom management or learning support) is more important to students' learning outcomes. However, differential effects of deep structures of learning have rarely...
Beginning teachers are often associated with high strain and the so called reality shock. Although the German teacher induction process is supposed to ensure a smooth transition to becoming a teacher it is often a subject to criticism. Thus, in 2009 a reform of teacher induction was initiated. Applying a quasi-experimental (contrasting the last coh...
The first practical experience in school is said to be stressful for teachers. In the present study we compare the experience of uplifts and hassles in various teachers' fields of activity and the well-being of pre-service teachers to in-service teachers. We examine whether teachers experience (a) less difficulties in teachers' fields of activity a...
Beginning teachers’ first years in school have been described as demanding and stressful. In explaining beginning teachers’ stress, previous research mainly focused on either trait-like personality characteristics or general work-related stressors. In contrast, the present study focused on the day-to-day experience. The aim of the current study was...
Bildungswissenschaftliches Wissen (BW) wird als generisch/fachübergreifend konzeptualisiert. In der vorliegenden Studie wird geprüft, inwiefern ein standardisierter Test zur Erfassung von BW (Kunina-Habenicht et al., 2013) einerseits messinvariant für Absolvent(inn)en verschiedener Fächer (MINT, sozialwissenschaftliche Fächer, Kombination beider Fä...
Zwar konnte bisherige Forschung bereits zeigen, dass intrinsische motivationale Orientierungen von Lehrkräften im Zusammenhang mit günstigen Ergebnisvariablen (z. B. Unterrichtsqualität oder Schülermotivation) stehen, mögliche Wirkmechanismen sind jedoch noch wenig erforscht. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, diese vermittelnden Prozesse am Beis...
Due to a comparatively weak curricular structure in education faculties, student teachers may determine their study experiences and learning processes largely by themselves, by selecting their own priorities within educational foundation studies. This paper focused on the relationship between individually-chosen educational specializations, self-pe...
Research on classroom instruction has consistently identified characteristics that contribute to student learning. For instance, these include structural-organizational aspects (e.g., classroom management) and affective aspects (e.g., classroom social climate). The idea that the effects of instruction may differentially depend on students’ characte...
Bedingungen und Effekte von Unterricht: Aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven aus der pädagogischen Psychologie Zusammenfassung Der Unterricht ist das Herz dessen, was die Schule ausmacht (Ohle & McElvany, in diesem Band). Der vorliegende Beitrag thematisiert die Bedingungen und die Effek-te von Unterricht aus der Perspektive der pädagogischen Psychologi...
In this study we examine the interplay between curriculum-embedded formative assessment—a well-known teaching practice—and general features of classroom process quality (i.e., cognitive activation, supportive climate, classroom management) and their combined effect on elementary school students’ understanding of the scientific concepts of floating...
Urteile von Lehrkräften über die Leistung ihrer Schüler/innen entscheiden über deren akademische Laufbahn. Empirische Studien zeigen jedoch systematische Verzerrungen durch Schülermerkmale, die nicht in das Urteil über die Schülerleistung einfließen dürften. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wurde mit dem Schülerinventar ein experimenteller Ansatz zur Unters...
Das pädagogische Wissen von Lehrkräften (pedagogical knowledge, PK) wird generell als ein wichtiger Bereich der professionellen Kompetenz von Lehrkräften gesehen. Allerdings finden sich in der Forschungsliteratur zum Teil sehr unterschiedliche Definitionen dieses Konstrukts und die Befundlage zur Bedeutsamkeit dieser Wissenskomponente ist uneindeut...
This study expands the discussion on teacher competence by investigating the relevance of teachers’ combined cognitive resources and emotional resources for effective classroom management. While research on teacher qualification stresses the importance of knowledge for effective teaching, research on teacher stress focuses on their emotional functi...
This paper presents two studies adding validity evidence to the assessment of educational knowledge (EK) measured by a recently developed test. The first study compared the test scores of a large sample of graduates from academic teacher education with those of a sample of first-semester teacher students. Results indicate higher scores for graduate...
A cognitive and a guidance dimension can describe the support of students’ conceptual understanding in inquiry-based science education. The role of guidance for student learning has been intensively discussed. Furthermore, inquiry learning may pose particular challenges to students with low language proficiency. The present intervention in primary...
In the present study we compared comprehensive education systems and education systems using between-school tracking with regard to disparities in the quality of student–teacher relations between low and high achieving students, between students with different socioeconomic backgrounds, and between schools with different achievement and social comp...
This study investigates whether the quality of discourse during teacher induction classes predicts beginning teachers' reflection and beliefs about teaching and learning math-ematics. In a study with repeated measurements (interval 10 months), transmissive and constructivist beliefs of 536 German teacher candidates in their 2-year induction phase f...
This study was conducted to extend previous research by examining the specificity of teachers’ intrinsic needs and self-efficacy, and how they interact to predict instructional behaviors. Self-reporting measures were applied to assess teachers’ self-efficacy and intrinsic need satisfaction and students rated the teachers’ instructional behaviors (c...
In many research contexts where a multilevel data structure is present, researchers have to aggregate individual responses to the group level (e.g., team climate) to test specific hypotheses. An established way of justifying this aggregation is to show sufficient within-group agreement. An increasingly common measure of within-group agreement is th...
The authors examine whether the pedagogical-psychological knowledge (PPK) of future teachers is of significance to the later successfulness of their teaching. PKK, defined as knowledge required for the design of lessons in different subjects, was surveyed by applying a test instrument containing 39 items (Voss, Kunter & Baumert, 2011). 181 candidat...
Nachdem durch die internationalen Schulleistungsuntersuchungen festgestellt worden war, dass die Leistungen deutscher Schülerinnen und Schüler nicht zufriedenstellend ausfielen, galt es, die Ursachen dafür zu ergründen. Studien wie PISA machen lediglich eine Momentaufnahme des Leistungsstandes, können jedoch kaum etwas über die Ursachen aussagen. H...
While the roles of student misbehavior and teacher self-efficacy in teacher burnout have been investigated, there is still a pressing need to determine the processes involved and the degree to which these generalize across early career teachers. The present research integrates findings on teacher self-efficacy, occupational stressors, and emotional...
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde untersucht, ob das pädagogisch-psychologische Wissen (PPK) von angehenden Lehrkräften bedeutsam ist für deren späteren Unterrichtserfolg. PPK, definiert als Wissen, das zur Gestaltung des Unterrichts in ver-schiedenen Fächern notwendig ist, wurde anhand eines Testinstruments mit 39 Items erfasst (Voss, Kunter & Baum...
Over the last decade, the debate on school quality (U.S. Congress, 2001) has focused increased attention on teachers’ professional development. According to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future’s (2003), “strong professional development opportunities must be embedded in the very fabric of public education” (p. 129).
