Robert Weinhandl

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• PhD
• Post-Doc Researcher at Johannes Kepler University of Linz

This study aims to uncover some key elements of successful home- learning of mathematics, based on students’ perceptions, during the COVID-19 pandemic and offer recommendations for mathemat- ics learning beyond the crisis. Throughout our work, we aimed to examine students’ reflections on mathematics learning and learn- ing environments that assiste...

In this study, we discuss how the use of student personas can support pre-service teachers developing digital mathematics learning resources and improve mathematics teacher training programs. The use of modern technologies in schools requires that pre-service teachers prepare for new challenges , including the development of digital learning resour...

Mathematical skills and achievement are essential for students in their secondary school careers and beyond. Our study aims to identify which non-cognitive psychological aspects are particularly suitable for predicting upper secondary students' mathematics achievement. To achieve this goal, we conducted a questionnaire study (n = 5,624) among upper...

One goal of mathematics education is to adapt features of digital learning materials to students’ characteristics. This paper presents a multi-layered research approach to identify key aspects of mathematics students within the persona approach. Data for this research was collected from 5,624 mathematics students using an instrument focusing on 15...

More and more digital technologies are being integrated into school learning, and one strategy by policymakers to reinforce this trend is employing digital one-to-one approaches. For digital technologies to be fruitfully integrated into school-based learning scenarios, teachers and their anticipations are key. In our study, we want to explore how i...

Our study examines secondary school teachers’ use of digital technology in classrooms through the Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive framework, focusing on how gender, age, and experience influence teachers’ intended cognitive engagement. Data from 1483 teachers completing the Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive Technology Sc...

Im Zuge der "Digitalen Schule"-Initiative des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung und der damit verbundenen Ausstattung von Schüler*innen der Sekundarstufe I mit digitalen Geräten ist der Bedarf an hochwertigen digitalen Lernmaterialien, insbesondere im Fach Mathematik, stark gestiegen. Bisherige empirische F...

Das vorliegende Kapitel beschreibt unterschiedliche Rollen digitaler Technologien im Mathematikunterricht und deren Beitrag zu einem modernen und interaktiven Lernumfeld. Digitale Technologien werden nicht überall mit derselben Geschwindigkeit in den Mathematikunterricht integriert, jedoch besteht Einigkeit über die prinzipielle Notwendigkeit, digi...

Interactive, constructive, active and passive technology scale (ICAP-TS) is a relatively new developed instrument representing an essential literature need. Through this cross-cultural study, we strived to accomplish a threefold aim. Firstly, we aspired to verify the scale's construct validity and reliability on a large sample of teachers across se...

Digital game-based learning (DGBL)-Umgebungen wie Minecraft Education (ME) verdeutlichen, dass moderne digitale Technologien die Möglichkeit bieten, Freude und intrinsische Motivation in den Mathematikunterricht zu integrieren. Studien zeigen jedoch, dass Schüler*innen ohne Vorerfahrung mit ME Schwierigkeiten haben, mit dieser neuen Lernform umzuge...

In parallel with the rapid digitalization of society in the 21st century, GeoGebra evolved in the last 20 years from an interactive geometry software to a comprehensive software package for learning mathematics. This chapter presents how teaching and learning scenarios based on GeoGebra tools or resources could be designed to meet the needs and des...

This article explores the transition from traditional to hybrid and fully online flipped classroom models in the Bachelor of Educational Sciences program at the University of Luxembourg, focusing on the mathematics education of pre-service elementary school teachers. Over eight years (2014–2022), the program evolved from teacher-centred lectures to...

Despite numerous studies indicating the positive contribution of 3D modeling and printing (3DMP) in learning settings, its current educational use is still rather limited. For the adoption of 3DMP in classrooms, it is critical to understand the views and perceptions of teachers on such new technology. To better understand how teachers perceive 3DMP...

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and the continuous evolution of educational paradigms, fostering environments that nurture creativity and transdisciplinary learning has become crucial. The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts is pleased to present this special issue on ‘Innovative Learning Environments’, aiming to explore and sh...

The purpose of this research was to identify synergies in affective, meta and collaborative STEAM learning, and the level of professional development structure and collaborative support needed for teachers to achieve these. Three project case studies (KIKS, STEAMTEACH and STEAMCONNECT) are examined to do this. In the KIKS (Kids Inspiring Kids in ST...

Integrating AI Chatbots into teaching and learning activities is a growing trend, and understanding the readiness of preservice mathematics teachers to use AI Chatbots is crucial for successful implementation in educational settings. This study examines the factors influencing the adoption of AI Chatbots by preservice mathematics teachers in China,...

In Austria, all lower secondary students are equipped with digital devices. To optimise the use of these devices, teachers need insight into students' views on using them. This need is why our research aims to explore students' views on using digital devices. To this end, we interviewed 18 lower secondary students concerning using technology in mat...

Im vorliegenden Konferenzbericht wird das Konzept, die Entwicklungsprozesse und die Materialstruktur von FLINK in Mathe erläutert, einer digitalen Materialiensammlung, die Lernmittel für Schüler:innen der Sekundarstufe I online zur Verfügung stellt. Dabei wird ein Bezug zum Design-Based-Research-Ansatz, anhand dessen die FLINK-Materialien entwickel...

Pre-service teachers should be trained and prepared to develop digital learning resources. Therefore, they need insight into the characteristics and demands of mathematics students, which personas, prototypical representatives of homogeneous student groups, can provide. The study aims to discover aspects of personas relevant to basic teacher traini...

Persona development techniques are a well-established method to create relatable descriptions of representatives of target users of digital systems. In the field of education, research on learner characteristics has yielded comprehensive results that can help advance educational approaches. Nonetheless, these results often remain abstract and dista...

Research into teachers’ concepts and changes over time in digital technologies is crucial for gaining insights into the factors that shape teachers’ concepts of technologies and influence their use in the classroom. Numerous studies have indicated that the use of 3D modelling and printing (3DMP) contributes to the modernization of teaching and the...

In industry, an expectation shock occurs when a customer has a post-experience perception that greatly exceeds their prior expectations. In our study, the customers are students and teachers. An expectation shock might occur when, for example, a student 'just did not expect to find STEAM so interesting'. The objective of this research was to determ...

Nowadays modern technologies can be found everywhere in our digital era leading to and requiring new competencies to be able to fully participate in society; consequently, digital competencies are indispensable for students. However, the development of students’ competencies requires teachers’ competencies, in particular knowledge and abilities to...

Personas, initially originated in user experience research, are short and simplified representations of particular user groups, and this methodological approach has recently gained ground in educational research. This study aims to explore aspects of personas that may be beneficial for prospective mathematics teachers when they develop digital lear...

Owing to its advantages such as producing durable models and easy accessibility, 3D modeling and printing (3DMP) has become increasingly popular in educational practice and research. However, the results of many studies have shown that the adoption rate of 3DMP among teachers is still low, especially in elementary schools. Therefore, research is ne...

Our research aimed to identify factors of motivation and affect to best characterise upper secondary mathematics students and correlations between these factors. This work is based on personas, a tool from user experience research for representing the needs and characteristics of users of a system developed in prior research. In the present study,...

Computer-Based Mathematics Learning (CBML) has gone global in the last decade and is making a substantial impact for educational purposes. But the fact is that in the scientific literature, it is found that studies aimed at testing these theoretical assumptions have inconsistent results. In this regard, this meta-analysis was conducted to determine...

To benefit from the quickly expanding range of new possibilities of technology-enhanced education, school systems, schools, and teachers need to adapt quickly. Conversely, the needs of students and teachers in a technology-enhanced classroom require technology developers to provide and improve suitable technologies. In this paper, we aim to show ho...

Der vorliegende Konferenzbericht thematisiert die Entwicklung von Personas zur Erstellung schüler:innengerechter Mathematiksoftwares im Rahmen unserer Studie (Weinhandl et al., 2022; Weinhandl et al., 2023). Personas bilden dabei Repräsentant:innen einer bestimmten Schüler:innenpopulation, wobei jeder dieser fiktiven Charaktere für eine ausgewählte...

This study aims to find out which aspects of a virtual learning environment could support mathematics teachers in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted interviews with secondary school and university teachers who worked with GeoGebra Classroom, a virtual learning environment, during distance learning, used qualitative content...

Teachers’ professional development is now widely regarded as a key determinant of school effectiveness and student achievement. However, Mathematics teachers in Vietnamese secondary schools face numerous challenges in their teaching practices, such as a lack of recourse assistance, a lack of innovational teaching policy, and difficulty in using rea...

Cabri is characterized by an attractive advantage and provides wide-ranging benefits in the teaching of mathematics. Although today there have been many studies on the edges of Cabri, experiments on Cabri-Express have not been widely explored. For this reason, a quasi-experimental study with a randomized posttest only design involving 80 grade VII...

This paper reports an exploratory qualitative study conducted within the FLINK (German acronym for supporting learners for developing sustainable mathematics skills by using interactive materials) project in Austria. We present an overview of the study, its theoretical framework, initial findings from FLINK-based resource designs and the developmen...

The STEAMTEACH (STEAM Education for Teaching Professionalism) project works with teacher trainers to develop a program of Transcultural STEAM Professional Development for in- and pre-service teachers. Following a literature review, a semi-structured questionnaire then interviews approach was used to elicit current practice, challenges for teachers...

In recent years, using micro-lectures (a short video of less than ten minutes) as a digital learning medium has become popular for integrating technology into mathematics lessons, providing new experiences to students and helping them to master mathematical concepts. It is important to note that the effectiveness of a micro-lecture depends on how t...

This study aims to investigate and describe how creative thinking skills and problem-solving strategies are used by prospective mathematics teacher students in solving non-routine problems. Non-routine problems given to the subject require the use of mathematical conceptual understanding and procedural knowledge or algorithms used to find solutions...

Information technology plays an increasingly prominent role in our personal and professional lives. It also plays an important role in schools, and especially in mathematics education. To realise their full potential in education, technologies should be designed in a way that addresses the characteristics of the target students. In the context of l...

Micro-lectures, i.e., short learning videos on a specific aspect of a topic, have become one of the most effective technology-based learning media approaches and were widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in the post-pandemic era starting from early 2022, as K-12 students have been allowed to resume going to school, it is necessary to...

In this paper, we offer three examples from our research projects on both technological and pedagogical innovations to illustrate the impact of rapid technology changes on research. Members of our research team both developed and used technology applications in their research projects, utilizing design-based research (DBR). During the experiments,...

Digital mathematics textbooks differ from traditional printed textbooks in, among other things, their dynamic structural elements, representing a potential that traditional textbooks cannot fulfil. Notably, dynamic structural elements, i.e., multimodal representations of mathematics, could be of particular importance for learning, which is why the...

The 21st century allows the use of e-books to substitute printed books in educational context, thereby adapt teaching and learning to the potentialities of our digital era. Several studies examined the effect of mathematics e-books compared to traditional printed books on students' mathematics achievement, however, the results are still inconclusiv...

Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) has been widely used in both industry and in schools over at least the last twenty years. The Industry Hothousing variant of CPS is an intensive, time-constrained workshop-based process to build mutual trust between customers and industry experts in order to synergically develop creative solutions. The main objec...

In the last decade, micro-lectures have been widely used to teach mathematics, but only a few studies have examined the factors affecting teachers’ intentions of using micro-lectures. As teachers are key to integrating modern technologies such as micro-lectures into students’ learning processes, knowledge about teachers’ intentions in this regard c...

Modern technologies have become an integral part in our society and are increasingly shaping the teaching of mathematics at every level of education. In Austria, the academic school year 2021/22 will undergo an extensive digitalisation; all students who start secondary school will be equipped with a digital device. Our paper reports on anticipated...

Modern technologies have become an integral part in our society and are increasingly shaping the teaching of mathematics at every level of education. In Austria, the academic school year 2021/22 will undergo an extensive digitalisation; all students who start secondary school will be equipped with a digital device. Our paper reports on anticipated...

Using ePortfolios in mathematics learning is a valuable way to visualise students' learning outcomes in student-driven learning. ePortfolios are typically a collection of finished or fixed artefacts. However, several new software applications offer the opportunity to incorporate the interactive and dynamic characters of mathematics and mathematics-...

Educational innovations often do not make it beyond pilot phases or academic discussions. To scale up educational innovations, we combined professional mathematics teacher development and online learning environments (OLE) in our educational study. By applying a grounded theory approach and design-based research, we have investigated how OLE should...

It is crucial for designing online professional development courses to know which elements of a change process teachers face while participating in such courses. However, teachers' change process in online learning environments is still a rather poorly researched subject. Thus, we adopted a case study approach to examine the different elements of a...

The global spread of COVID-19 has resulted in learning and teaching being confronted with immense challenges and changes since spring 2020. Measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic had and continue to have a particularly strong impact on non-formal and informal learning, which are important features of out-of-class on-line STEM workshops combining...

In our technological age, many technologies and real-world objects communicate with each other or partly merge. However, this combination of technologies and real-world objects has not yet found its way into everyday teaching practices in schools to any great extent. To investigate the possibilities of combining technologies and real-world objects...

Synopsis: Modelling could be characterised as one of the core activities in secondary mathematics education in Austria. However, when learning and teaching mathematics , mathematical modelling is mostly used to apply and deepen mathematical knowledge and competencies. Our educational case study aims to explore how mathematical modelling, using real...

Our research aims to explore which design elements and aspects of online learning environments are relevant for teachers when introduced to educational innovations such as flipped learning and, thereby, to enable facilitating the dissemination of these innovations. Background Integrating educational innovations from academic discourses or professio...

A. Introduction Flipped learning (FL) approaches can be characterized by a flexible educational environment, a new learning culture, intentional content, and a well-prepared professional educator (Flipped Learning Network, 2014). To facilitate changes in schools, Fadel (2008) suggested the frame of 21st-century skills: (a) learning and innovation s...

Purpose: Flipped classroom approaches (FCA) are an educational innovation that could increase students' learning outcomes in, and their enjoyment of, mathematics or STEM education. To integrate FCA into education sustainably, professional teacher development (PTD) is a promising tool. The research aim is to explore which aspects should be considere...

Combining new educational approaches and educational technologies can make mathematics education more adaptable to pupils‘ needs in the 21st century. Our explorative educational study aimed to identify how learning settings and learning environments should be designed to facilitate synthesising flipped approaches to education and using GeoGebra. To...

Recently, the idea of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) is increasingly shaping discussions about the world of work and society. In order to prepare the next generations for such new developments, it is necessary to adjust the way they learn. One possibility for a change in education is Flipped Classroom Approaches (FCA), which are particularl...

Combining ePortfolios and flipped learning approaches in mathematics education could contribute to ensuring that mathematics education better meets students’ current and future needs of their learning and working world. Our study aims to identify how mathematics education should be de-signed to facilitate combining ePortfolios and flipped learning...

In recent years, Mathematics education research has been focusing on technology-enhanced forms of learning and modern, student-centred education methods. An example of this is the Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA). The project presented here aims to develop a framework for Mathematics teacher training for these forms of learning in Austria. In a fir...

Although teaching according to a flipped classroom approach is being increasingly used in schools, it is still the case that this type of education is often teacher-driven, and that teachers play a dominant role in terms of determining learning objectives and materials. Recently, the definition of flipped classrooms is being changed, accordingly th...

In recent years, Mathematics education research has been focusing on technology-enhanced forms of learning and modern, student-centred education methods. An example of this is the Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA). The project presented here aims to develop a framework for Mathematics teacher training for these forms of learning in Austria. In a fir...

This article focuses on the technology-supported Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) in Mathematics education and how this form of teaching and learning can be implemented in secondary schools. In the German-speaking countries in particular, research on the FCA focuses on the individual components of this form of education and how this approach can be...

Abstrakt In der nachfolgenden Master Thesis wird dargestellt, welche Aufgaben und Herausforderungen die heutige Schule bzw. die am schulischen Lernprozess beteiligten Personen zu erfüllen haben. Nicht mehr das bloße Wiedergeben von Sachverhalten und Definitionen ist gefragt, sondern das Anwenden von Kompetenzen und mithin das Erstellen von Lernprod...