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Friedman, Michael; Muñoz Alvis, Jose – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
Friedrich Fröbel is known as the founder of the modern kindergarten and for his development of novel learning materials called Gifts and Occupations. One of the foci of Fröbel's programme was mathematical education, which he addressed and taught through various activities that encouraged the largely implicit transmission of mathematical…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Education, Educational History, Instructional Materials
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Sziegat, Hongmei – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2022
Since the implementation of the Excellence Initiative and the Excellence Strategy, German higher education institutions have been restructuring university governance, especially those selected as Universities of Excellence. This study uses a holistic and mission-related integrated governance approach to conduct a qualitative analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Governance
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Voshaar, Johannes; Knipp, Martin; Loy, Thomas; Zimmermann, Jochen; Johannsen, Florian – Accounting Education, 2023
We examine the impact of a gamified mobile learning application on students' exam success in a mandatory introductory accounting course. The app was developed with the particular needs of first-year students in mind. It provides elements like quizzes as well as organizational and communicative elements helping students structure their daily life…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Academic Achievement, Accounting
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Lohbeck, Annette; Petermann, Franz – Journal of School Violence, 2018
By differentiating between five specific forms of cybervictimization (denigration, betrayal, social exclusion, cyberstalking, happy slapping), the present study examined the multifaceted structure of cybervictimization and specific relationships of these five forms of cybervictimization with students' self-esteem and social relationships.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Self Esteem, Victims
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Kunina-Habenicht, Olga; Goldhammer, Frank – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
As a relevant cognitive-motivational aspect of ICT literacy, a new construct "ICT Engagement" is theoretically based on self-determination theory and involves the factors ICT interest, Perceived ICT competence, Perceived autonomy related to ICT use, and ICT as a topic in social interaction. In this manuscript, we present different…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Püttmann, Vitus; Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Growing demands and expectations on the side of policy makers and the public have changed the conditions for academics' engagement in public discussions. At the same time, risks related to this engagement for the professional and even private lives of academics have become apparent. Conducting a survey experiment among 4091 tenured professors in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Tenure, Teacher Attitudes
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Goldan, Janka; Schwab, Susanne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
Previous research suggests that the perception of available resources has a major influence on teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education (Avramidis, E., and B. Norwich. 2002. "Teacher's Attitudes Towards Integration/Inclusion: A Review of the Literature." "European Journal of Special Needs Education" 17 (2): 129-47;…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Inclusion
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Wiener, Gerfried J.; Schmeling, Sascha M.; Hopf, Martin – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper describes the second in a series of studies exploring the acceptance of the subatomic structure of matter by 12-year-olds. The studies focus on a novel learning unit introducing an atomic model from electrons down to quarks, which is aimed to be used at an early stage in the physics curriculum. Three features are fundamental to the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Preadolescents, Nuclear Physics, Instructional Effectiveness
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Brandt, Silke; Nitschke, Sanjo; Kidd, Evan – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Structural priming is a useful laboratory-based technique for investigating how children respond to temporary changes in the distribution of structures in their input. In the current study we investigated whether increasing the number of object relative clauses (RCs) in German-speaking children's input changes their processing preferences for…
Descriptors: Priming, German, Phrase Structure, Linguistic Input
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Harald A. Mieg; Katrin E. Klieme; Emma Barker; Jane Bryan; Caroline Gibson; Susanne Haberstroh; Femi Odebiyi; Frano P. Rismondo; Brigitte Römmer-Nossek; Janina Thiem; Erika Unterpertinger – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This article presents a ten-item short scale for measuring digital competence. The scale is based on the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, DigComp2.1 (Carretero et al., 2017). For our surveys, we used five items from the DigCompSat study (Clifford et al., 2020) and created five new ones to address the competence areas defined by…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Competence, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
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Rohm, Theresa; Carstensen, Claus H.; Fischer, Luise; Gnambs, Timo – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Background: After elementary school, students in Germany are separated into different school tracks (i.e., school types) with the aim of creating homogeneous student groups in secondary school. Consequently, the development of students' reading achievement diverges across school types. Findings on this achievement gap have been criticized as…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Test Bias, Error of Measurement
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Schneickert, Christian; Lenger, Alexander; Steckermeier, Leonie C.; Rieder, Tobias – Teaching Sociology, 2019
We discuss findings from a survey of sociology students in Germany and consequences for teaching. We focus on the de facto formation of a sociological canon, the relation between theories and methods, and effects of social and political characteristics on student's scientific preferences. Our findings suggest that irrespective of an agreement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociology, Core Curriculum, Theory Practice Relationship
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Menold, Natalja – Field Methods, 2020
In randomized experiments, inventories with reverse-keyed items are compared with inventories in which all the items are either positively or negatively associated with the underlying concept. The results show that with reverse keying, a control of the potential bias was not sufficient; likewise, the factorial structure, reliability, and validity…
Descriptors: Test Items, Measures (Individuals), Eye Movements, Factor Structure
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Vogel, Sebastian Nicolas Thomas; Stang-Rabrig, Justine; McElvany, Nele – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Parents play an important role in shaping behavioral and motivational outcomes in their child's education, presumably even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, where concomitant school closures forced students worldwide to learn remotely at home, affecting socio-economically disadvantaged students most negatively. However, it remains unclear how…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Outcomes of Education, Low Income Students, Socioeconomic Status
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Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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