Stephan Kröner

Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | FAU · Department of Education

While it is often theoretically presumed that religious and spiritual beliefs are important determinants for teachers’ professional thinking and acting, there is only scarce empirical evidence of this. Using structural equation modelling to explain professional beliefs about teaching and learning among N = 1,441 German schoolteachers, our study yie...

It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What is known about various individual and environmental variables that may be related to children’s leisure reading and writing? And how strong is existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on leisure reading and writing in first- to fourth-graders. Usin...

Encouraging the successful adaptation of young immigrant populations is clearly in the best interests of nations that accept immigrants. In the forthcoming decades, the fact that immigrants and their children will become irreplaceable forces in the economies of host societies and taking care of rapidly aging non-immigrant populations should not be...

This study compared the geographic mobility of community college students with that of students at other institutions of higher education. Using a sample of 7192 students at 39 institutions across the United States (13 community colleges, 14 public 4-year institutions, 12 private 4-year institutions), it employed the method of operationalizing geog...

Previous findings on religious beliefs of teachers suggest a relation between individual religiosity and professional thinking and acting of teachers. Evidence beyond faith schools and teachers with Religious Education (RE) as a subject is scarce, suitable measuring instruments are also lacking. Therefore, this paper reports the development and val...

Zusammenfassung Ob persönliche religiös-weltanschauliche Überzeugungen von Lehrkräften deren berufliches Denken und Handeln beeinflussen und ob sie es beeinflussen sollten, ist immer wieder Gegenstand öffentlicher Diskussionen. Angesichts eines dahingehend unbefriedigenden Forschungsstands, insbesondere im europäischen Kontext, wurde der Erklärungs...

FabLabs and makerspaces offer unprecedented opportunities for digital empowerment, especially for children and adolescents. However, reviews on making with regard to empowerment are lacking. We identified n = 180 publications on digital making with children and adolescents and, after categorizing them regarding formal criteria and formality of sett...

This paper reflects on place attachment in times of digitalisation in rural regions. Our qualitative study explores the extent to which and with which characteristics place attachment 'translates' into the digital format. The paper analyses 193 digital projects presented in the internet. These cases cover several European countries with a particula...

There is a discrepancy between a high inherent value of extracurricular music classes and a low proportion of low-socioeconomic status (SES) male participants. However, evidence on how to match out-of-school music classes to students’ preferences is lacking. Thus, we assessed the attractiveness of different versions of such classes via an experimen...

Zusammenfassung Digitalisierung verändert zunehmend die kulturelle Bildung. Im Zuge des technologischen Fortschritts werden auch soziale Interaktionen, ästhetische Erfahrungen und Ausdrucksformen transformiert. In diesem Beitrag wird über eine konfigurierende Forschungssynthese zur Kartierung des sich entwickelnden Forschungsfeldes zur Digitalisier...

While leisure writing may help children to acquire writing skills, it can also be considered as an inherently valuable cultural activity. This study explores how children’s beliefs may explain to what extent children are inclined to leisure writing and if there are any gender differences. Building on preliminary scale development work, we analysed...

this is a consiced version of the results from the paper "Gründe für die Überschreitung der Regelstudienzeit aus Studierendensicht" published in Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung 2/2017: https://www.bzh.bayern.de/uploads/media/2-2017-gesamt.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314750627_Grunde_fur_die_Uberschreitung_der_Regelstudienzeit_aus_...

In this study, we investigated the differential effect of regional economic prosperity on mean student cognitive achievement by analysing data from a “natural experiment” in Palestine. Its main regions, Gaza and the West Bank, inhabited by a population sharing history, culture and gene pool, were only recently separated, yet distinctively affected...

Complex Problem Solving (CPS) and reasoning are considered as correlated, but not equivalent (Stadler, Becker, Gödker, Leutner, & Greiff, 2015). However, empirical evidence for incremental validity of constructs beyond reasoning regarding CPS is scarce. This includes evidence for CPS self-concept (CPS SC; cf. Meißner, Greiff, Frischkorn, & Steinmay...

Im hier vorgestellten Teil des Metaprojekts zum Förderschwerpunkt, Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung (DiKuBi) steht die Synthese quantitativ-empirischer Forschung im Fokus. Forschungssynthesen gewinnen-ausgehend von der Bewährung dieses Ansatzes in anderen Disziplinen-auch in der Bildungsforschung an Bedeutung. Sie sind geeig...

Systematic reviews are the method of choice to synthesize research evidence. To identify main topics (so-called hot spots) relevant to large corpora of original publications in need of a synthesis, one must address the “three Vs” of big data (volume, velocity, and variety), especially in loosely defined or fragmented disciplines. For this purpose,...

When elementary school students write in their leisure time, they acquire competences. Moreover, writing is a cultural activity with value in itself. However, there are only few studies regarding determinants of children’s leisure time writing. Therefore, a questionnaire based on the theory of planned behavior was developed to examine the determina...

We review empirical studies on possible relations between schoolteachers’ personal religious beliefs or worldviews and their professional thinking and acting. The major underlying assumption of such research is that teachers’ religiosity or worldview orientation has an impact on their teaching. Although this assumption has been the basis of much pu...

Playing a musical instrument requires economic capital and represents cultural capital. Thus, the odds to play an instrument are low for children from low-capital families. Moreover, if low-capital children are musically active, they should choose instruments providing lower distinction values. We investigated how economic capital (via highest Inte...

online supplement zu Penthin, M., Fritzsche, E. S., & Kröner, S. (2017). Gründe für die Überschreitung der Regelstudienzeit aus Studierendensicht [Reasons for exceeding the specified course duration from the students’ perspective]. Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung 39(2):8-31.

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According to the unskilled and unaware effect (Kruger and Dunning 1999), low-performing students tend to overestimate their performance. Differentiating the assessment of metacognitive judgments into performance judgments (PJs) and second-order judgments (SOJs), PJs of low-performing students tend to be inflated, while their SOJs are usually lower...

German: Warum spielen manche Grundschulkinder ein Musikinstrument oder singen im Chor und andere nicht? Bisherige Studien zu musikalischen Aktivitäten sind größtenteils deskriptiv angelegt oder basieren auf eingeschränkten Operationalisierungen. Vor dem Hintergrund eines theoretischen Rahmenmodells haben wir Skalen zu den bereichsspezifischen Deter...

German: Über die Hälfte der Studierenden an deutschen Hochschulen überschreitet die Regelstudienzeit. Um die bisher meist nur ausschnittsweise betrachteten Ursachen zu systematisieren, wurde in dieser Arbeit ein aus der Literatur abgeleitetes Kategoriensystem entwickelt, das bis zu drei Gliederungsebenen umfasst. Grundlage war die qualitativ-inhalt...

Findings of studies on the unique effects of reasoning and working memory regarding complex problem solving are inconsistent. To find out if these inconsistencies are due to a lack of symmetry between the studies, we reconsidered the findings of three published studies on this issue, which resulted in conflicting conclusions regarding the inter-rel...

With the aim to better understand the nature of complex problem solving (CPS), we investigated the link between confidence judgments, which represent a major constituent of metacognitive self-monitoring, and CPS by regressing the two facets of CPS (i.e., knowledge acquisition and knowledge application) on confidence in CPS. To ensure that the link...

Unterscheiden sich Grundschulklassen darin, wie stark die Schulleistung mit der sozialen Herkunft assoziiert ist, und lassen sich solche Unterschiede durch Qualitätsaspekte des Unterrichts erklären? Zur Annäherung an diese Fragen wurden 885 Schülerinnen und Schüler der 3. und 4. Jahrgangsstufe untersucht. Als Leistungsmaße dienten Lehrkraftbewertun...

Why should children read in their leisure time? Reading may contribute to the acquisition of reading literacy and may foster integral human development. However, there has been a scarcity of research on determinants of leisure time reading among elementary school students, especially regarding environmental aspects. In this article, the authors rep...

Der Anteil der Studierenden, die ihr Studium in der Regelstudienzeit (RSZ) abschließen wird als Qualitätsindikator für die Hochschullehre angesehen (Jaeger, Leszczensky, Orr, & Schwarzenberger, 2005). Laut den aktuellsten verfügbaren Daten des statistischen Bundesamts überschritten im Jahr 2011 jedoch 61% der Hochschulabsolventen an deutschen Hochs...

Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, ausgehend vom Stand der Forschung Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten für gute Praxis in der Lehre an Hochschulen vorzustellen und aufzuzeigen, wie sich diese in einen kontinuierlichen Optimierungs- und Qualitätssicherungsprozess einbetten lässt. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden insbesondere zwei derzeit viel diskutierte Aspekte in...

Die Zahl studienbezogener Auslandsaufenthalte stieg in den letzten Jahren sehr, gleichzeitig gibt es Studierende, aus deren Sicht ein derartiger Aufenthalt im Ausland nicht erstrebenswert ist. Bekannt ist, dass viele Studierende sich von einem Auslandsaufenthalt berufliche Vorteile und positive Effekte auf ihre Persönlichkeitsentwicklung erhoffen (...

Elite gymnasia with a main focus on musical education are special institutional learning environments for the students attending those schools: Their curricula differ considerably from those of non-specialized schools regarding the emphasis that is placed on musical activities. Thus, if effects of intensive musical education on personality developm...

Problemloseforschung hat nicht nur unterschiedliche Problemstellungen zum Gegenstand, sondern kann ihrerseits als Problemlosehandlung verstanden werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden zunachst Ziel und Gegenstand padagogisch-psychologischer Problemloseforschung skizziert, und es wird erortert, welche Barrieren fur deren Erreichung zu uberwinden sind...

What motivates adolescents to cultural participation? This question is important for the discourse on aesthetic education, in which cultural participation is regarded as contributing to the development of adolescents’ personality, values, and competencies. However, research on this issue suffers from fragmentation. Unconnected research on cultural...

Eltern mit Migrationshintergrund sind in Elternvertretungen an Schulen in Deutschland unterrepräsentiert. Ein stärkeres Engagement dieser Eltern ist jedoch im Sinne gelebter demokratischer Kultur unverzichtbar. Um das Spektrum der Beweggründe von Eltern mit Migrationshintergrund für und gegen ein Engagement auszuloten, wurden Interviews mit N = 31...

Inwieweit kann Gewissenhaftigkeit nach dem NEO-PI-R auf Faktor- und Facettenebene zur Diagnostik der dispositionellen Selbstregulation herangezogen werden? Wir haben dies exemplarisch anhand einer Handlung mit hohen Selbstregulationserfordernissen untersucht: dem Ausleihen, fristgerechten Durcharbeiten und pünktlichen Zurückgeben von Bibliotheksbüc...

Stankov and Lee (2008) have shown confidence scores to have unique predictive effects on achievement criteria when the corresponding test scores are controlled. These findings suggest that confidence scores might provide valid indicators of metacognitive monitoring. However, as confidence is related to self-concept (Kröner & Biermann, 2007), it is...

What determines the musical activities of high school students? According to the theory of planned behavior, attitudes (including intrinsic values), subjective norms (including the musical affinity of friends and parents), and perceived behavioral control (including musical self-concept) are likely predictors. Attending a high school with a musical...

Cultural capital plays a strong role in determining eduactional and vocational success (Bourdieu, 1987). According to Bourdieu, individuals enter the educational system with different endowments of cultural capital, depending on their social background. These differences are not equalized over the educational career, but rather exacerbated, because...

"Vielleicht sind da solche Dinge drinnen die mich interessieren..." Kulturelles Kapital ist ein zentraler Prädiktor für Erfolg in Schule und Beruf (vgl. Bourdieu, 1987). Insbesondere ein Zusammenhang zwischen kultureller Praxis und Schulleistungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern wurde empirisch belegt (vgl. Baumert et. al., 2003). Auch unabhängig von...

Study 1 tested the model of the Differentielles Leistungsangst Inventar (Differential Test Anxiety Inventory, DAI; Rost & Schermer, 1997, 2007) using data from N = 480 university students (Schilling, Rost, & Schermer, 2004).Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that model fit was satisfactory (RMSEA =.039, TLI = .903, CFI = .913), invariant of stu...

Warum verbringen Schüler Freizeit mit der Teilhabe an (hoch-)kulturellen Aktivitäten und Ereignissen? Frühere Studien zeigten Effekte von sozialem Hintergrund und Persönlichkeitsvariablen, die aufgeklärte Varianz war jedoch gering. Wir haben daher zusätzlich zur Offenheit für Ästhetik und zur wahrgenommenen kulturellen Affinität von Eltern und von...

Why do some elementary school children learn to play a musical instrument whereas others do not? According to results of studies with older children, the perceived musical activity of parents and friends, as well as artistic interest and musical self-concept, are potential predictors of cultural activities. Variance explained by these variables in...

As studies on essay-assessment show, mentioning a first name triggers specific associations, which may distort results of studies, e.g. regarding gender effects on person perception. These distortions should be controlled for using word norms. For Rudolph and Spörrles (1999) norms, temporal stabilitiy as well generalizability regarding prospective...

The relationship between working memory, intelligence and problem-solving is explored. Wittmann and Süß [Wittmann, W.W., & Süß, H.M. (1999). Investigating the paths between working memory, intelligence, knowledge, and complex problem-solving performances via Brunswik symmetry. In P.L. Ackerman, R.D. Roberts (Ed.), Learning and individual difference...

Zusammenfassung. In welcher Wechselwirkung stehen die Personlichkeitsmerkmale Offenheit als Big Five-Faktor und kunstlerisches Interesse als Faktor des RIASEC-Modells sowie die Teilnahme an kulturellen Aktivitaten bei jungen Erwachsenen im Ubergang von Sekundarstufe II in das Studium bzw. in die berufliche Erstausbildung? Bei Kontrolle des sozialen...

Motivationale Determinanten wie Zielorientierungen zeigten in vielen Studien ihren Einfluss auf Leistungsvariablen von Lernern. In dieser Arbeit soll geprüft werden, ob sich solche Zusammenhänge auch bei Lehrenden zeigen. An zwei Stichproben von n = 84 Lehrkräften und n = 75 Lehramtsstudierenden soll untersucht werden, ob die berufsbezogenen Lern-,...

According to Stankov [Stankov, L. (2000). Complexity, metacognition and fluid intelligence. Intelligence, 28, 121–143.] response confidence in cognitive tests reflects a trait on the boundary of personality and abilities. However, several studies failed in relating confidence scores to other known traits, including self-concept. A model of response...

It has been suggested that computer simulations may be used for intelligence assessment. This study investigates what relationships exist between intelligence and computer-simulated tasks that mimic real-world problem-solving behavior, and discusses design requirements that simulations have to meet in order to be suitable for intelligence assessmen...

A pilot study concerning the development of a simulation-based tool for intelligence assessment is presented. A computer simulation (MultiFlux; Kröner, 2001) is used, based on three ideas: (1) “control of previous knowledge”; (2) “separation of system exploration and system control”; (3) assessment of system control performance according to princip...

Based on cognitive theories it is expected that participants in vocational computer-based training will learn better if they are presented material which is highly relevant for vocational practice and if they receive highly informative feedback. 60 adult persons were randomly assigned to the cells of a 2*2-design representing the factors feedback i...