@article{AbuJarourAjjanFedorowiczetal.2021, author = {AbuJarour, Safa'a and Ajjan, Haya and Fedorowicz, Jane and Owens, Dawn}, title = {How working from home during COVID-19 affects academic productivity}, series = {Communications of the Association for Information Systems : CAIS}, volume = {48}, journal = {Communications of the Association for Information Systems : CAIS}, publisher = {Association for Information Systems}, address = {New York, NY}, issn = {1529-3181}, doi = {10.17705/1CAIS.04808}, pages = {55 -- 64}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forced most academics to work from home. This sudden venue change can affect academics' productivity and exacerbate the challenges that confront universities as they face an uncertain future. In this paper, we identify factors that influence academics' productivity while working from home during the mandate to self-isolate. From analyzing results from a global survey we conducted, we found that both personal and technology-related factors affect an individual's attitude toward working from home and productivity. Our results should prove valuable to university administrators to better address the work-life challenges that academics face.}, language = {en} } @article{SteinmayrLazaridesWeidingeretal.2021, author = {Steinmayr, Ricarda and Lazarides, Rebecca and Weidinger, Anne Franziska and Christiansen, Hanna}, title = {Teaching and learning during the first COVID-19 school lockdown: Realization and associations with parent-perceived students' academic outcomes}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r p{\"a}dagogische Psychologie}, volume = {35}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r p{\"a}dagogische Psychologie}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Hogrefe Verlag}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {1010-0652}, doi = {10.1024/1010-0652/a000306}, pages = {85 -- 106}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all schools in Germany were locked down for several months in 2020. How schools realized teaching during the school lockdown greatly varied from school to school. N = 2,647 parents participated in an online survey and rated the following activities of teachers in mathematics, language arts (German), English, and science / biology during the school lockdown: frequency of sending task assignments, task solutions and requesting for solutions, giving task-related feedback, grading tasks, providing lessons per videoconference, and communicating via telecommunication tools with students and / or parents. Parents also reported student academic outcomes during the school lockdown (child's learning motivation, competent and independent learning, learning progress). Parents further reported student characteristics and social background variables: child's negative emotionality, school engagement, mathematical and language competencies, and child's social and cultural capital. Data were separately analyzed for elementary and secondary schools. In both samples, frequency of student-teacher communication was associated with all academic outcomes, except for learning progress in elementary school. Frequency of parent-teacher communication was associated with motivation and learning progress, but not with competent and independent learning, in both samples. Other distant teaching activities were differentially related to students' academic outcomes in elementary vs. secondary school. School engagement explained most additional variance in all students' outcomes during the school lockdown. Parent's highest school leaving certificate incrementally predicted students' motivation, and competent and independent learning in secondary school, as well as learning progress in elementary school. The variable "child has own bedroom" additionally explained variance in students' competent and independent learning during the school lockdown in both samples. Thus, both teaching activities during the school lockdown as well as children's characteristics and social background were independently important for students' motivation, competent and independent learning, and learning progress. Results are discussed with regard to their practical implications for realizing distant teaching.}, language = {en} } @article{VietzeSchwarzenthalMoffittetal.2022, author = {Vietze, Jana and Schwarzenthal, Miriam and Moffitt, Ursula and Civitillo, Sauro}, title = {Beyond 'migrant background': how to select relevant, social justice oriented, and feasible social categories in educational research}, series = {European journal of psychology of education}, volume = {38}, journal = {European journal of psychology of education}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0256-2928}, doi = {10.1007/s10212-022-00611-2}, pages = {389 -- 408}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Across continental Europe, educational research samples are often divided by 'migrant background', a binary variable criticized for masking participant heterogeneity and reinforcing exclusionary norms of belonging. This study endorses more meaningful, representative, and precise research by offering four guiding questions for selecting relevant, social justice oriented, and feasible social categories for collecting and analysing data in psychological and educational research. Using a preregistered empirical example, we first compare selected social categories ('migrant background', family heritage, religion, citizenship, cultural identification, and generation status) in their potential to reveal participant heterogeneity. Second, we investigate differences in means and relations between variables (discrimination experiences, perceived societal Islamophobia, and national identity) and academic motivation among 1335 adolescents in Germany (48\% female, M-age = 14.69). Regression analyses and multigroup SEM revealed differential experiences with and implications of discrimination for academic motivation. Results highlight the need for a deliberate, transparent use of social categories to make discrimination visible and centre participants' subjective experiences.}, language = {en} }