Uta Klusmann

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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January 2013 - present
Kiel University
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Teachers’ social-emotional competence is considered important in order to master the social and emotional challenges inherent in their profession and to build positive teacher-student relationships. In turn, this is key to both teachers’ occupational well-being and positive student development. Nonetheless, an instrument assessing the profession-sp...
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Background and objectives Emotional exhaustion is considered to be the key symptom of burnout. Although it has been defined that emotional exhaustion rather results from work-related experience than from other life domains, this has rarely been studied empirically. The study aimed to investigate the role of different life domains in predicting emot...
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A negative association between symptoms of teacher burnout (e.g., emotional exhaustion) and students’ academic outcomes has been demonstrated in previous research. Although, in theoretical models, it has been suggested that this association can be explained through changes in teachers’ instructional behavior, these mediating processes have not yet...
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Job satisfaction has long been discussed as an important factor determining individual behavior at work. To what extent this relationship is also evident in the teaching profession is especially relevant given the manifold job tasks and tremendous responsibility teachers bear for the development of their students. From a theoretical perspective, te...
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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...
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Lehrkräfte sind zentrale Akteur*innen im schulischen Alltag, die mit hohen Erwartungen konfrontiert werden. Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung, um diesen gerecht zu werden, ist neben dem professionellen Wissen und Können das berufliche Wohlbefinden. Verschiedene Studien zeigen jedoch, dass sich ein erheblicher Anteil der Lehrkräfte durch ihre Arbeit er...
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Kompetenzen und die Gesundheit von Lehrkräften, insbesondere in herausfordernden schulischen Umfeldern, zu stärken. Drei zentrale Fortbildungsmaßnahmen werden vorgestellt: Erstens, ein Training zur Verbesserung der Feedbackkompetenz, das Lehrkräfte dabei unterstützt, effektives, lernförderliches Feedback zu geben und zu empfangen. Zweitens, ein Pro...
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Kompetenzen und die Gesundheit von Lehrkräften, insbesondere in herausfordernden schulischen Umfeldern, zu stärken. Drei zentrale Fortbildungsmaßnahmen werden vorgestellt: Erstens, ein Training zur Verbesserung der Feedbackkompetenz, das Lehrkräfte dabei unterstützt, effektives, lernförderliches Feedback zu geben und zu empfangen. Zweitens, ein Pro...
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Teachers’ emotional exhaustion is related to various detrimental outcomes, such as work absenteeism, intention to quit, impaired instructional quality, and lower student motivation. Since emotional exhaustion becomes evident as early as teacher training at university, the question is whether it would be possible to identify an individual dispositio...
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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...
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Zusammenfassung Die Professionalisierung von Lehrkräften durch Fortbildungsmaßnahmen wird als eine zentrale Maßnahme zur Förderung von leistungsschwächeren Schülerinnen und Schülern benannt. Die Entscheidung darüber, welche Fortbildungen Lehrkräfte besuchen, hängt neben der Verfügbarkeit der Angebote auch von individuellen Faktoren wie dem Interess...
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Schon im Rahmen des Lehramtsstudiums sollen angehende Lehrer:innen „wesentliche Ergebnisse der Belastungs- und Stressforschung“ (KMK, 2019, S. 13) kennenlernen. Warum ist das so? Sind die Beanspruchungen im Lehrer:innenberuf und insbesondere die gesundheitlichen Folgen tatsächlich so hoch, wie Medienberichte häufig suggerieren, und sind Burnout und...
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Im vorliegenden Skalenhandbuch werden die Erhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, die im Rahmen der STePS-Datenerhebung im Wintersemester 2022/2023 eingesetzt wurden. Darüber hinaus werden Item- und Skalenkennwerte in Form von deskriptiven Statistiken dargeboten.
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The current article investigated the role that the school context plays in teachers’ well-being in terms of emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. First, we analyzed between-school variation in well-being and indicators of social interactions. Second, we examined the association between these indicators and well-being on the teacher and school...
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Procrastination leads to obstructive consequences for students in higher education. Cross-sectional studies show that procrastination is positively associated with study dissatisfaction and students' intentions to drop out of their university degree program. However, the reciprocal effects between these variables throughout an entire university deg...
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Richter, E., Klusmann, U. & Richter, D. (2023). Berufliche Herausforderungen und Beanspruchungserleben von Lehrkräften im Seiteneinstieg: Die Rolle der Mentorinnen und Mentoren. Erziehung und Unterricht, 173(7/8), 605-615. Abstract: Basierend auf der Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Theorie untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag die beruflichen Herausford...
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Basierend auf der Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Theorie untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag die beruflichen Herausforderungen und das Belastungserleben von Lehrkräften im Seiteneinstieg in der Phase des Berufseinstieges. Zudem prüft der Beitrag, wie Mentor:innen diese Gruppe von Lehrkräften unterstützen. Die Arbeit basiert auf Daten von 235 Seitenein...
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Lehrkräfte und ihr berufliches Handeln werden häufig in den Medien thematisiert, wobei das Spektrum von positiven Beispielen bis zu kritischen Urteilen über die Lehrtätigkeit reicht. Entsprechend wurde auch während der COVID-19-Pandemie kontrovers darüber berichtet, wie Lehrkräfte den neuen Herausforderungen begegnet sind. Die vorliegende experimen...
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Im vorliegenden Skalenhandbuch werden die Erhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, die im Rahmen der STePS-Datenerhebung im Wintersemester 2021/2022 eingesetzt wurden. Darüber hinaus werden Item- und Skalenkennwerte in Form von deskriptiven Statistiken dargeboten.
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We aimed to identify the levels of and changes in emotional exhaustion experienced by teachers and principals during the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related stressors and resources. In a German sample of 2157 teachers and 374 principals, we found high levels and an increase of emotional exhaustion. Results from multi-group structural equation mo...
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Teachers’ social-emotional competence has received increasing attention in educational psychology for about a decade and has been suggested to be an important prerequisite for the quality of teacher-student interactions and student outcomes. In this review, we will summarize the current state of knowledge about the association between one central c...
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Teachers’ burnout has severe consequences for themselves and their students. The identification of factors related to burnout can provide valuable information about the relevance of interindividual differences. Beyond work-related factors, burnout is assumed to be affected by individuals’ personality traits, and several empirical studies already ex...
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Background and objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the everyday professional life of teaching staff. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the pandemic on teachers' emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. Methods: A sample of 2531 school administrators and teachers from North Rhine-Westphalia was recrui...
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Die wahrgenommene Wertschätzung stellt nicht nur im Arbeits- sondern auch im Hochschulkontext eine wichtige soziale Ressource für die akademische Leistung, das Engagement und Wohlbefinden dar. Studentinnen und Studenten, die sich in ihren Lehrveranstaltungen wertgeschätzt fühlen, lernen erfolgreicher und neigen seltener zu Studienabbruchsintentione...
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Im vorliegenden Skalenhandbuch werden die Erhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, die im Rahmen der STePS-Datenerhebung im Wintersemester 2020/2021 eingesetzt wurden. Darüber hinaus werden Item- und Skalenkennwerte in Form von deskriptiven Statistiken dargeboten.
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This paper focuses on stereotype threat and its effects on sense of belonging in the German Physics Olympiad science competition. Participants completed questionnaires about sense of belonging, stereotype endorsement, interest, and self-concept in physics, as well as about value and success expectations of studying physics in college. Female partic...
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Im vorliegenden Skalenhandbuch werden die Erhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, die im Rahmen der STePS-Datenerhebung im Wintersemester 2019/2020 eingesetzt wurden.Darüber hinaus werden Item- und Skalenkennwerte in Form von deskriptiven Statistiken dargeboten.
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Background. Difficult social interactions with students are reported to be among the main stressors of beginning teachers, and although social competence has been suggested to represent a vital resource for their transition into practice and early-career adaptation, this assumption has rarely been empirically studied. Aim. We conducted two studies...
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Empathy is crucial for the quality of social interactions and thus highly relevant in human service professions. At the same time, people belonging to this occupational group are especially vulnerable to developing burnout symptoms. With this study, we aimed to investigate the causal link between burnout symptoms and empathy by using a novel experi...
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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...
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The present study investigated to what degree teachers’ personality traits, cognitive abilities, and academic abilities (high school GPA), which were assessed at the end of high school as well as grades from the first and second state examinations of teacher education, predict later instructional quality. The study combined ratings of instructional...
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Zusammenfassung. Der Lehrerberuf ist gekennzeichnet durch stetige soziale Interaktionen, deren erfolgreiche Bewältigung hohe Anforderungen an die sozial-emotionalen Fähigkeiten der Lehrkräfte stellt. Insbesondere zum Berufseinstieg werden Unterrichtsstörungen und soziale Konflikte als häufigste Stressoren erlebt. Die vorliegende Studie stellt ein t...
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Previous research provides evidence that ratings from students and external observ-ers can deliver reliable and valid measures of teaching quality. However, there is still a lack of research on how stable these measures are across time and classes, which is particularly important when they are used for evaluations. We addressed this issue in 3 diff...
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Im vorliegenden Skalenhandbuch werden die Erhebungsinstrumente vorgestellt, die im Rahmen der STePS-Datenerhebung im Wintersemester 2018/2019 eingesetzt wurden.Darüber hinaus werden Item- und Skalenkennwerte in Form von deskriptiven Statistiken dargeboten.
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Mathematics anxiety is a problem for many secondary school students, and the accompanying worries andunpleasant affective reactions threaten their well-being. An extensive body of studies has found a negativecorrelation between anxiety and concurrent mathematics achievement. However, prior research on theirlongitudinal interplay has yielded inconsi...
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Der Übergang in die berufliche Praxis stellt für viele Lehramtskandidatinnen und Lehramtskandidaten eine große Herausforderung dar. Besonders nicht gelingende, konfliktreiche soziale Interaktionen mit Schülerinnen und Schülern werden als häufigste Stressoren der Berufsanfängerinnen und Berufsanfänger genannt. Eine bessere Vorbereitung auf die Quant...
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Asked about major job stressors, teachers consistently name classroom disturbances or disciplinary problems. Furthermore, student misbehavior has been linked to reduced occupational well-being. However, there is a pressing need to uncover the psychological processes explaining this association. In their model of teacher well-being, Spilt, Koomen, a...
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Background 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...
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Nicht nur Lehrerinnen und Lehrer selbst haben ein Interesse daran, mit Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und Arbeitszufriedenheit durch das Berufsleben zu gehen. Auch für politische Entscheidungsträger, Verbände und Schulleitungen ist das Thema von hoher Relevanz, da die Bedeutung von Lehrkräften für die Qualität von Unterricht, Schule und dem Bildungssyste...
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Teachers’ social support and classroom management are related to secondary students’ achievement, domain-specific interest, and self-concept. However, little is known about whether social support and classroom management shape secondary students’ general school adjustment beyond these domain-specific outcomes. To investigate this question, we drew...
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In many federal states of Germany, high-school graduates are advised to use self-assessments to inform themselves about the requirements of the teaching profession as well as to assess their vocational aptitude. The goal is to encourage suitable candidates and keep less eligible ones from enrolling in teacher education programs. The present study e...
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An imbalance between work-related stressors and resources, which we refer to as stress exposure, is often found to impair teachers' occupational well-being. However, the psychological mechanisms that explain this relationship are mostly unknown. We assumed that satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for competence, relatedness with students,...
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Seit uber 30 Jahren wird wiederkehrend darauf hingewiesen, dass der Einstieg in den Lehrerberuf eine besonders herausfordernde Phase sei, in der es zu Anpassungsschwierigkeiten der angehenden Lehrkrafte komme (z. B. Tynjala & Heikkinen, 2011). Neben Veranderungen in Einstellungen und Uberzeugungen sowie dem Erleben von Inkompetenz wird dabei vor al...
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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...
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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...
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Prior research has demonstrated that teachers’ professional knowledge and motivation are strongly related to students’ learning and motivation. Symptoms of teachers’ stress and burnout (e.g., emotional exhaustion) are also thought to influence students’ achievement, but no empirical study has tested this prediction. Using multilevel analyses and a...
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Berufliche Interessen determinieren neben der Studienfachwahl auch Zufriedenheit und Erfolg im Studium. Viele Schüler/innen treffen bei der Einschätzung ihrer Interessen jedoch auf Schwierigkeiten. Ein Angebot zur Verbesserung dieser Einschätzung stellen sogenannte Self-Assessments dar: Auf Basis von Interessenfragebögen wird das individuelle Inter...
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Zusammenfassung. Die berufliche Selbstregulation stellt einen zentralen Aspekt professioneller Kompetenz von Lehrkraften dar. Empirische Studien konnten zeigen, dass die berufliche Selbstregulation sowohl einen positiven Effekt auf das Wohlbefinden der Lehrkrafte als auch auf ihr Unterrichtshandeln hat. Obgleich die Verortung der beruflichen Selbst...
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Das Wissen und Können von Lehrkräften hat einen bedeutsamen Effekt auf das Lernen von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Darüber hinaus wird angenommen, dass auch emotional-motivationale Erlebensqualitäten der Lehrkraft, wie die berufliche Beanspruchung, für die Schülerinnen und Schüler eine Rolle spielen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, inwieweit die b...
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The knowledge and skill of teachers has a significant influence on how students learn. Furthermore, it is assumed that emotional-motivational qualities of the experiences made by teachers as well as job-related stress have an impact on students, too. The present study examines in how far job-related stress experienced by teachers - defined by emoti...
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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).
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This study examines the extent to which the quality of mentoring and its frequency during the first years of teaching influence teachers' professional competence and well-being. Analyses are based on a sample of more than 700 German beginning mathematics teachers who participated in a pre-test/post-test study over the course of one year. Findings i...
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This study investigates teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, professional beliefs, work-related motivation, and self-regulation as aspects of their professional competence. Specifically, it examines how these aspects impact instruction and, in turn, student outcomes. In a nationally representative sample of 194 German secondary school mathemati...
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This chapter offers a theoretical overview of the development of teachers’ professional competence. Drawing on the literature on teacher quality and teacher education, it discusses two diverging perspectives on the development of teachers’ professional knowledge and skills, namely, the “individual aptitude” approach and the “professional qualificat...
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Anders Y, Kunter M, Brunner M, Krauss S, Baumert J (2010) Diagnostische Fähigkeiten von Mathematiklehrkräften und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Leistungen ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler [Mathematics teachers’ diagnostic skills and their impact on students’ achievements]. Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht 3:175–193. doi:10.2378/peu2010.art13d
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The questions of who becomes a teacher and whether the transition to teacher education is associated with a negative selection process have been discussed in both national and international studies on teacher quality (Denzler and Wolter. Cambridge Journal of Education 39(4): 423–441, 2009; Klusmann et al. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie 23...
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This first chapter gives an overview of the studies that constitute the COACTIV research program, summarizes the research questions guiding the program, and outlines the research traditions on which it builds. The research strands informing COACTIV include research on teaching and learning, expertise research, and research on motivational and occup...
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This chapter introduces occupational self-regulation as the fourth aspect of teacher competence in the COACTIV model. Occupational self-regulation describes teachers’ ability to achieve a balance between their personal resources and the demands of the profession. People with strong self-regulatory skills demonstrate a level of occupational engageme...
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This work reports the findings of the Professional Competence of Teachers, Cognitively Activating Instruction, and Development of Students' Mathematical Literacy project (COACTIV). COACTIV applies a broad, innovative conceptualization of teacher competence to examine how mathematics teachers' knowledge, beliefs, motivational orientations, and self-...
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Various self-assessment tools have been developed in Germany to determine prospective teachers' aptitude for teacher education and the teaching profession. Two instruments, in particular, are currently in use: the "Fit for the Teaching Profession" test (Fit für den Lehrerberuf, FIT; Herlt & Schaarschmidt, 2007) and the Career Counselling for Teache...
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Zusammenfassung: Der Ubergang von der Universitat in die berufliche Praxis gilt als eine anspruchsvolle Phase der Professionalisierung junger Lehrkrafte. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht erstens die Hohe der emotionalen Erschopfung und der Arbeitszufriedenheit von angehenden Lehrkraften im Vorbereitungsdienst und zweitens die Bedeutung von Personl...
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht Effekte kooperativer Lehre im Lehramtsstudium und vergleicht in einem quasi-experimentellen 2 x 2-Design kooperative mit individueller Lehre von Lehramtsstudierenden, die sich in ihrem Ausmas an Studienzeit unterscheiden (Studienanfanger vs. Fortgeschrittene). Die N = 164 Teilnehmenden bereiteten kooperativ oder ei...
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The identification of competencies and skills which constitute a prerequisite for successful teaching is of both scientific and educational-political interest. At present, different test methods are available, which were conceived to determine the students' aptitude for studying and practicing the teaching profession before entering teacher trainin...
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Zusammenfassung Die Arbeit untersucht die Unterstützung von Mentoren und Mitreferendaren innerhalb des Vorbereitungsdienstes und geht der Frage nach, inwiefern die Unterstützung dieser Akteure zur beruflichen Entwicklung von Referendaren beiträgt. Die Stichprobe umfasst 551 Referendare des Faches Mathematik, die zweimal innerhalb des Vorbereitungsd...
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This study examined teachers’ uptake of formal and informal learning opportunities across the career cycle. Analyses were based on data from 1939 German secondary teachers in 198 schools. Results showed that formal learning opportunities (in-service training) were used most frequently by mid-career teachers, whereas informal learning opportunities...
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Anmerkungen zur Validität eignungsdiagnostischer Verfahren bei angehenden Lehrkräften Zusammenfassung: Die Identifikation der Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten, die Vorausset-zung für erfolgreiches Lehrerhandeln sind, ist von wissenschaftlichem und bildungspoli-tischem Interesse. Aktuell liegen unterschiedliche Testverfahren vor, die dafür konzipiert wu...
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In both the United States and Europe, concerns have been raised about whether preservice and in-service training succeeds in equipping teachers with the professional knowledge they need to deliver consistently high-quality instruction. This article investigates the significance of teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge for hi...
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One of the focuses of current research on teachers' occupational stress experience is to identify individual and institutional characteristics that help teachers to cope with the demands of their occupation. Schaarschmidt and colleagues have proposed a typology that classifies individuals into four self-regulatory types (healthy-ambitious, unambiti...
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In offentlichen Diskussionen uber den Berufsstand der Lehrkrafte wird haufig die Annahme formuliert, dass sich fur diesen Beruf Personen mit ungunstigen kognitiven und psychosozialen Merkmalen entschieden, was dazu fuhre, dass ein Teil der Lehrkrafte seine beruflichen Aufgaben nicht erfolgreich erfullen konne. Allerdings haben nur wenige Studien di...
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This article investigates teacher enthusiasm and how it relates to instructional behaviours. We distinguished teachers' enthusiasm for the subject matter of mathematics from their enthusiasm for teaching mathematics. A total of 323 teachers and their 9th-grade classes participated in the study. Questionnaires were used to assess teachers' enthusias...

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