Construction and validation of an assessment of openness to diversity for (prospective) teachersAbstract. Diversity and tolerance have been widely discussed throughout the media in recent years on various topics ...
Development and evaluation of a questionnaire to measure student teachers' needs for digital teaching competencies in teacher educationAbstract. In order to adequately support young learners in gaining digital learning ...
Abstract: Teacher students’ professional educational knowledge is of great importance in academic teacher education. In response to the need to continuously optimize and improve teacher education, we developed a standards-based test ...
Motivation for Choosing Teacher Education QuestionnaireBased on the expectation-value model an instrument to measure motivations for choosing teacher education (FEMOLA) was developed and validated on three samples of teacher students. In Study 1 (measure ...
Primary or Secondary School? On the Motivation for Choosing Teacher EducationAbstract: The decision on a particular teacher education program depends amongst others on students’ motivation. Previous research has investigated rather general than teacher ...
Vocational Interests and Cognitive Ability of first-year Teacher Candidates as a Function of selected Study MajorRecent research on professional development in teacher education has been focused on differences in teacher candidates’ personality profiles ...
Professional Teacher Development: Introduction to the Special IssueProfessional teacher development is considered a core process to assure the quality of educational systems. The development of professional competence is understood as an individual ...
Educational Psychology’s Contributions to Professional Teacher Development: Discussion of the Special IssueOn the basis of the editorial and five empirical contributions in this special issue, I want to point out the specific approach that educational ...
Evaluation of a Video-Based Training to Foster the Professional Vision of Classroom Management in Elementary ClassroomsEfficient classroom management could be proven to be important for an appropriate learning environment. An essential prerequisite for ...
Study Requirements in Teacher EducationRecent research has been focusing on teacher education. The aspect of study requirements has not been investigated until now. The present online study examines these requirements by applying the method for analyzing ...
Fostering reading comprehension in regular classrooms: Implementation and effectiveness of whole-class reciprocal teachingAbstract. The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the effects of two different teacher-led classroom reading literacy ...
Do good students become successful teachers?Abstract. 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 ...
Developing scientific thinking in teacher education: Learning from own and advocatory errors in multiple and uniform contextsAbstract. Developing competence in scientific thinking represents an important learning goal in teacher education. The current ...
Development and psychological quality of a diagnostic tool to measure competences in the planning of lessons of prospective teachers in the field of general educationAbstract. This paper documents the theory-based ...
Development of competence in Educational Science studies: the impact of individual aspects on the acquisition of pedagogical knowledge of student teachersAbstract. Longitudinal studies that record educational science ...
Abstract. Teachers' reception of educational research is considered important for improving teaching and student learning. Yet, it is a challenging task requiring teachers to have access to scientific sources, the ...
Abstract. Understanding processes of selecting, evaluating, and using relevant information sources to inform oneself about scientific topics, that is, sourcing, is a current topic within educational ...
Does motivation in the beginning equal success in the end? The predictive power of career choice motivation for grades during teacher education.Abstract. There are profound theoretical arguments on the relevance of career ...
Abstract. Inspired by evidence-based medicine, many researchers in the field of learning and instruction assume that meta-analyses are the best scientific information source to inform teachers' practice. This ...
Abstract: Teachers need to learn complex skills in higher education, such as diagnostic argumentation. We suggest that relations between the argumentation facets justification, disconfirmation, and transparency are ...