Sebastian Tempelmann

• Doctor of Psychology
• Senior Researcher at Bern University of Teacher Education

Virtual reality (VR) can provide access to otherwise inaccessible aspects of the world and thus promote science learning. We developed a VR learning tool about the water cycle, with 11 lessons for classroom teaching at the primary level. We assessed prior knowledge before a four-week intervention and learning outcomes directly after the interventio...

Research reveals that teachers regularly refer to intuitive construals (IC) in formal science education. Only a few studies, however, have investigated why teachers refer to them. Alarmingly, these studies suggest didactic consideration is not the main reason for this. Instead, teachers introduce IC unintentionally or due to a lack of expertise. A...

Virtual reality (VR) can provide access to otherwise inaccessible aspects of the world and thus foster science learning. We developed a VR learning tool about the water cycle, with 11 lessons for classroom teaching at the primary level. We assessed prior knowledge before a four-week intervention and learning outcomes directly after the intervention...

Im letzten Jahrzehnt hat sich die Landschaft zum Unterrichtsfach Sachunterricht bzw. «Natur, Mensch, Gesellschaft» (NMG) an den Pädagogischen Hochschulen der Deutsch-schweiz grundlegend verändert. Dies ist insbesondere auf die Tertiärisierung der Lehrper-sonenausbildung zurückzuführen, aber auch auf die verbindliche Einführung des Lehrplan 21 in de...

Im Rahmen einer explorativen video-gestützten Lernprozessstudie wurden die Veränderungen der Präkonzeptionen über den atmosphärischen Treibhauseffekt von 13jährigen Lernenden detailliert untersucht. Das Forschungsdesign bestand aus einer Unterrichtseinheit, die in Vor- und Nachtest-Interviews eingebettet war. Der Unterricht basierte auf einem konst...

Active experience and manipulation are crucial sources of learning. However, many scientific topics are not accessible to our senses, such as microscopic or macroscopic structures and processes. By combining immersive and interactive elements, virtual reality offers a promising way to connect inaccessible parts of the world to direct sensory experi...

In the present research, we investigate the communicative strategies of 20 month old human infants and great apes when requesting rewards from a human experimenter. Infants and apes both adapted their signals to the attentional state of the experimenter as well as to the location of the reward. Yet, while infants frequently positioned themselves in...

GLMM analysis of number of switches to the experimenter’s side. (DOCX)

GLMM analysis of number of switches to the other side. (DOCX)

GLMM analysis of the number of auditory signals produced at the other side. (DOCX)

GLMM analysis of the number of visual gestures produced at the other side. (DOCX)

TS condition. Towards-same condition; experimenter on the right side; reward on the right side. (MP4)

GLMM analysis of the number of auditory signals produced at the experimenter’s side. (DOCX)

GLMM analysis of the number of pointing gestures directed to the experimenter’s side. (DOCX)

AD condition. Away-different condition; experimenter on the right side; reward on the left side. (MP4)

Raw data and summarized data for duration of stay, number of switches, auditory signals, visual and pointing gestures. (XLSX)

GLMM analysis of the number of visual gestures produced at the experimenter’s side. (DOCX)

TD condition. Towards-different condition; experimenter on the left side; reward on the right side. (MP4)

AS condition. Away-same condition; experimenter on the left side; reward on the left side. (MP4)

Springs are an important hydrological concept because springs form an interface between underground and surface sub-systems of the hydrological cycle. Furthermore, springs are important suppliers of drinking water but are at risk today due to numerous anthropogenic interferences. The general knowledge of springs and their formation is usually rudim...

Some domestic dogs learn to comprehend human words, although the nature and basis of this learning is unknown. In the studies presented here we investigated whether dogs learn words through an understanding of referential actions by humans rather than simple association. In three studies, each modelled on a study conducted with human infants, we co...

In contrast to apes' seemingly sophisticated skill at producing pointing gestures referentially, the comprehension of other individual's pointing gestures as a source of indexical information seems to be less pronounced.One reason for apes' difficulty at comprehending pointing gestures might be that in former studies they were mainly confronted wit...

This paper provides a video-based learning process study that investigates the kinds of mental models of the atmospheric greenhouse effect 13-year-old learners have and how these mental models change with a learning environment, which is optimised in regard to instructional psychology. The objective of this explorative study was to observe and anal...

"Water knowledge" has now become a socio-political and future-orientated necessity. Everyday ideas or preconceptions of hydrology can have a deleterious effect one people's understanding of the scientific facts and their interrelations that are of relevance to sustainable water management. This explorative pilot study shows that preconceived notion...

"Water knowledge" has now become a socio-political and future-orientated necessity. Erroneous notions or preconceptions of hydrology can have a deleterious effect on our understanding of the scientific facts and their interrelations that are of relevance to sustainable water management. This explorative pilot study shows that erroneous and naïve id...

When begging for food, all great ape species are sensitive to a human's attention. However, studies investigating which cues are relevant for chimpanzees to assess the attentional state of others have produced highly inconsistent results. Some have suggested chimpanzees differentiate attention based on the status of the face or even the eyes, while...

A key skill in early human development is the ability to comprehend communicative intentions as expressed in both nonlinguistic gestures and language. In the current studies, we confronted domestic dogs (some of whom knew many human 'words') with a task in which they had to infer the intended referent of a human's communicative act via iconic signs...

Contextual imitation of intransitive actions within a third-party copying setting was tested in 180 household dogs. A demonstrator dog, in sight of observer dogs, performed one of two trained actions upon hearing verbal commands given by an experimenter. Observer dogs were later tested to see whether they produced more target actions than control g...