TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Luedtke, Oliver T1 - Acceleration in elementary school: using propensity score matching to estimate the effects on academic achievement JF - The journal of educational psychology N2 - Using German data, we examined the effects of one specific type of acceleration-grade skipping-on academic performance. Prior research on the effects of acceleration has suffered from methodological restrictions, especially due to a lack of appropriate comparison groups and a priori measurements. For this reason, propensity score matching was applied in this analysis to minimize selection bias due to observed confounding variables. Various types of matching were attempted, and, in consideration of balancing the covariates, full matching was the final choice. We used data from the Berlin ELEMENT Study, analyzing, after matching, the information of 81 students who had skipped a grade over the course of elementary school and up to 1,668 nonaccelerated students who attended the same grade level as the accelerated students. Measurements took place 3 times between the 4th and 6th grades, including the assessment of reading, spelling, and mathematics performance. After matching, the results of between-group comparisons regarding performance indices showed no significant effects of skipping a grade, other than a small positive effect found on spelling performance. Theoretical implications and methodological limitations are discussed. KW - grade skipping KW - academic performance KW - propensity score matching KW - acceleration KW - elementary school Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036631 SN - 0022-0663 SN - 1939-2176 VL - 106 IS - 4 SP - 1080 EP - 1095 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Akzeleration – schneller durch die Schule? JF - Handbuch Begabung Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-40725-886-1 SN - 978-3-40725-806-9 SP - 319 EP - 332 PB - Beltz CY - Weinheim ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Fuhrmann, Michaela A1 - Schubarth, Wilfried A1 - Schulze-Reichelt, Friederike A1 - Mauermeister, Sylvi A1 - Seidel, Andreas A1 - Hartmann, Nina A1 - Erdmann, Melinda A1 - Apostolow, Benjamin A1 - Wagner, Laura A1 - Berndt, Sarah A1 - Wippermann, Melanie A1 - Ratzlaff, Olaf A1 - Lumpe, Matthias A1 - Kirjuchina, Ljuba A1 - Rost, Sophia A1 - Zurek, Peter Paul A1 - Faaß, Marcel A1 - Schellhorn, Sebastian A1 - Frank, Mario A1 - Kreitz, Christoph A1 - Wagner, Nelli A1 - Jenneck, Julia A1 - Kleemann, Katrin A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Schröder, Christian A1 - Erdmann, Kathrin A1 - Koziol, Matthias A1 - Meißner, Marlen A1 - Dibiasi, Anna A1 - Unger, Martin A1 - Piskunova, Elena V. A1 - Bahmutskiy, Andrey E. A1 - Bessonova, Ekatarina A. A1 - Borovik, Ludmila K. ED - Schubarth, Wilfried ED - Mauermeister, Sylvi ED - Schulze-Reichelt, Friederike ED - Seidel, Andreas T1 - Alles auf Anfang! BT - Befunde und Perspektiven zum Studieneingang T3 - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung N2 - Im Zuge der Bologna-Reform ist an Hochschulen vieles in Bewegung gekommen. Studium und Lehre sind stärker ins Blickfeld gerückt. Dabei kommt der Studieneingangsphase besondere Bedeutung zu, werden doch hier die Weichen für ein erfolgreiches Studium gestellt. Deshalb ist es verständlich, dass die Hauptanstrengungen der Hochschulen auf den Studieneingang gerichtet sind – ganz nach dem Motto: „Auf den Anfang kommt es an!“. Konsens herrscht dahingehend, dass der Studieneingang neu zu gestalten ist, doch beim „Wie?“ gibt es unterschiedliche Antworten. Zugleich wird immer deutlicher, dass eine wirksame Neugestaltung der Eingangsphase nur mit einer umfassenden Reform des Studiums gelingen kann. Ziel des vierten Bandes der Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung ist es, eine Zwischenbilanz der Debatte zum Studieneingang zu ziehen. Auf der Basis empirischer Studien werden unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf den Studieneingang eingenommen und Empfehlungen zur Optimierung des Studieneingangs abgeleitet. Die zahlreichen Untersuchungsergebnisse Potsdamer Forschergruppen werden durch weitere nationale sowie internationale Perspektiven ergänzt. Der Band richtet sich an alle, die sich für die Entwicklung an Hochschulen interessieren. T3 - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung - 4 Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-422965 SN - 978-3-86956-452-4 SN - 2192-1075 SN - 2192-1083 IS - 4 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca T1 - Are more conscientious seventh- and ninth-graders less likely to be retained? BT - effects of big five personality traits on grade retention in two different age cohorts JF - Journal of applied developmental psychology : an internat. multidisciplinary N2 - Previous research has identified students' personality traits, especially conscientiousness, as highly relevant predictors of academic success. Less is known about the role of Big Five personality traits in students when it comes to teachers' decisions about students' educational trajectories and whether personality traits differentially affect these decisions by teachers in different grade levels. This study examines to what extent students' Big Five personality traits affect teacher decisions on grade retention, looking at two cohorts of 12,146 ninth-grade and 6002 seventh-grade students from the German National Educational Panel Study. In both grade levels, multilevel logistic mediation models show that students' conscientiousness indirectly predicts grade retention through the assignment of grades by teachers. In the ninth-grade sample, students' conscientiousness was additionally a direct predictor of retention, distinct from teacher-assigned grades. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and explore whether teachers base their decisions on different indicators when retaining seventh-grade students or ninth-grade students. KW - grade retention KW - personality KW - gender KW - socioeconomic status KW - educational KW - large-scale study KW - educational achievement Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101088 SN - 0193-3973 VL - 66 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Are some students graded more appropriately than others? BT - student characteristics as moderators of the relationships between teacher-assigned grades and test scores in mathematics T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Background Building on the Realistic Accuracy Model, this paper explores whether it is easier for teachers to assess the achievement of some students than others. Accordingly, we suggest that certain individual characteristics of students, such as extraversion, academic self-efficacy, and conscientiousness, may guide teachers' evaluations of student achievement, resulting in more appropriate judgements and a stronger alignment of assigned grades with students' actual achievement level (as measured using standardized tests). Aims We examine whether extraversion, academic self-efficacy, and conscientiousness moderate the relations between teacher-assigned grades and students' standardized test scores in mathematics. Sample This study uses a representative sample of N = 5,919 seventh-grade students in Germany (48.8% girls; mean age: M = 12.5, SD = 0.62) who participated in a national, large-scale assessment focusing on students' academic development. Methods We specified structural equation models to examine the inter-relations of teacher-assigned grades with students' standardized test scores in mathematics, Big Five personality traits, and academic self-efficacy, while controlling for students' socioeconomic status, gender, and age. Results The correlation between teacher-assigned grades and standardized test scores in mathematics was r = .40. Teacher-assigned grades more closely related to standardized test scores when students reported higher levels of conscientiousness (beta = .05, p = .002). Students' extraversion and academic self-efficacy did not moderate the relationship between teacher-assigned grades and standardized test scores. Conclusions Our findings indicate that students' conscientiousness is a personality trait that seems to be important when it comes to how closely mathematics teachers align their grades to standardized test scores. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 853 KW - teacher‐ assigned grades KW - teacher judgements KW - Realistic Accuracy KW - Model KW - Big Five personality traits Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-563330 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Are some students graded more appropriately than others? BT - student characteristics as moderators of the relationships between teacher-assigned grades and test scores in mathematics JF - British journal of educational psychology N2 - Background Building on the Realistic Accuracy Model, this paper explores whether it is easier for teachers to assess the achievement of some students than others. Accordingly, we suggest that certain individual characteristics of students, such as extraversion, academic self-efficacy, and conscientiousness, may guide teachers' evaluations of student achievement, resulting in more appropriate judgements and a stronger alignment of assigned grades with students' actual achievement level (as measured using standardized tests). Aims We examine whether extraversion, academic self-efficacy, and conscientiousness moderate the relations between teacher-assigned grades and students' standardized test scores in mathematics. Sample This study uses a representative sample of N = 5,919 seventh-grade students in Germany (48.8% girls; mean age: M = 12.5, SD = 0.62) who participated in a national, large-scale assessment focusing on students' academic development. Methods We specified structural equation models to examine the inter-relations of teacher-assigned grades with students' standardized test scores in mathematics, Big Five personality traits, and academic self-efficacy, while controlling for students' socioeconomic status, gender, and age. Results The correlation between teacher-assigned grades and standardized test scores in mathematics was r = .40. Teacher-assigned grades more closely related to standardized test scores when students reported higher levels of conscientiousness (beta = .05, p = .002). Students' extraversion and academic self-efficacy did not moderate the relationship between teacher-assigned grades and standardized test scores. Conclusions Our findings indicate that students' conscientiousness is a personality trait that seems to be important when it comes to how closely mathematics teachers align their grades to standardized test scores. KW - teacher‐ assigned grades KW - teacher judgements KW - Realistic Accuracy KW - Model KW - Big Five personality traits Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12397 SN - 0007-0998 SN - 2044-8279 VL - 91 IS - 3 SP - 865 EP - 881 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lohse-Bossenz, Hendrik A1 - Goral, Johanna A1 - Gerlach, Erin A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Das strukturierte Promotionsprogramm in PSI Potsdam BT - Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses für die Lehrerbildung JF - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung N2 - Das strukturierte Promotionsprogramm in PSI Potsdam diente der Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses im Bereich der Lehrerbildung an der Universität Potsdam. Als fakultätsübergreifende Struktur vereinte es Forschungsprojekte verschiedener Disziplinen aus den Bereichen Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung. Das Promotionsprogramm richtete sich an Absolventinnen und Absolventen eines Lehramtsstudiums oder einer lehramtsrelevanten Bezugswissenschaft, die mit gezielten (über-)fachlichen und methodischen Angeboten in ihrer Promotion unterstützt wurden. Eine seit Beginn laufende Evaluation des Programms passt dadurch nachhaltig die Qualität der Angebote an die Bedürfnisse aller Beteiligten an. Der vorliegende Beitrag unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit dieses Programms und stellt die erste Umsetzungsphase (2015 – 2018) an der Universität Potsdam vor. N2 - The structured doctoral programme, as part of the PSI Potsdam research project, provided support for doctoral students who originate from various educational study programmes and backgrounds. It was organized in a cross-faculty structure and brought together research projects from different disciplines in the field of teacher training. The structured doctoral programme invited graduate students who graduated in education or an education-related discipline. The programme offers courses on professional development, research methods and other generic competencies. The constant evaluation of the programme facilitated a continuous improvement and ensured the quality of the courses with a match guaranteed for the needs of every doctoral student involved. This chapter underlines the necessity of the structured doctoral programme and introduces first results of the first implementation phase (2015 – 2018) at the University of Potsdam. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420381 SN - 978-3-86956-442-5 SN - 2626-3556 SN - 2626-4722 SP - 271 EP - 279 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zaruba, Nicole A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Ahlgrimm, Frederik A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Die Entwicklung von Lehrkräfteüberzeugungen im Praxissemester BT - Welche Lerngelegenheiten sind aus Studierendensicht relevant? JF - Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universität Potsdam (Potsdamer Beiträge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2) N2 - Überzeugungen zum Lehren und Lernen sind als Teil der professionellen Kompetenz von Lehrkräften bereits im Lehramtsstudium relevant und haben insbesondere in längeren Praxisphasen Entwicklungspotenzial. Welche Faktoren für die Entwicklung von Überzeugungen in Praxisphasen von Bedeutung sind, ist bislang aber nur unzureichend erforscht. In Interviews haben wir N = 16 Studierende befragt, welche Lerngelegenheiten für die Entwicklung ihrer Überzeugungen im Praxissemester eine Rolle spielten. Dabei konnten wir mittels Inhaltsanalyse vier übergeordnete Faktoren identifizieren: die universitäre Lernbegleitung, die Mentorinnen und Mentoren, die Schülerinnen und Schüler und die Reflexion eigener Unterrichtserfahrungen. Den Faktoren wurden untergeordnete Faktoren (z. B. Hospitationen durch Universitätsdozierende) zugeordnet und es wird dargestellt, warum und unter welchen Umständen diese Lerngelegenheiten für die Entwicklung der Überzeugungen aus Studierendensicht relevant sind. N2 - Beliefs about teaching and learning are part of a teacher’s professional competence. They should, thus, already be considered in teacher preparation as they can evolve, especially in the context of field experience. However, research on the factors that influence the development of teachers’ beliefs during school placement is sparse. We asked N = 16 preservice teachers which learning opportunities they considered relevant for the development of their beliefs in the Praxissemester. Using qualitative content analysis, we identified four main factors: university support, mentors in schools, pupils, and reflection on teaching experiences. We assigned subordinate factors (e. g. accompanying seminars) to the main factors. Subsequently, we describe why and under which circumstances these learning opportunities are relevant for the development of beliefs from the preservice teachers’ point of view. Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-570839 SN - 978-3-86956-508-8 SN - 2626-3556 SN - 2626-4722 IS - 2 SP - 215 EP - 234 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Emmrich, Rico A1 - Harych, Peter T1 - Differentiation in Mathematics and in German Lessons on Grammar School Level Is it to be found mainly among good diagnosticians and in heterogeneous classes? JF - Zeitschrift für Pädagogik N2 - Das Anliegen der vorliegenden Studie ist es, zu prüfen, inwiefern eine differenzierende Unterrichtspraxis in den Fächern Mathematik und Deutsch im Zusammenhang mit der Wahrnehmung von Leistungsheterogenität und der Diagnosegenauigkeit von Lehrkräften steht. Der Untersuchung lagen Leistungsdaten aus den Vergleichsarbeiten (VERA-8) und Lehrerurteile über N = 1803 Schüler/innen der achten Jahrgangsstufe an Gymnasien im Land Brandenburg zugrunde sowie Schülereinschätzungen zur Differenzierung im Unterricht. Hierarchische Regressionsanalysen zeigen, dass Mathematiklehrkräfte aus Sicht der Schüler/innen umso stärker differenzierend unterrichten, je besser sie die Leistungsstände der Schüler/innen einschätzen können. Im Fach Deutsch findet differenzierender Unterricht in geringerem Umfang statt und es zeigen sich keine Zusammenhänge mit der Diagnosegenauigkeit. The aim of the present study is to examine in how far a differentiating teaching practice in Math and German lessons is linked with the perception of heterogeneity in student performance and with the teachers´ diagnostic accuracy. The study is based on performance data from comparative tests (VERA-8) and teacher assessments of N = 1803 students attending 8th grade at grammar schools in the federal state of Brandenburg and on student assessments on differentiation in teaching. Hierarchical regression analyses show that, from the students´ perspective, Math teachers differentiate the more in their teaching the better they are able to assess the students´ performance level. In German lessons, differentiating forms of teaching are less often applied and there are no links with diagnostic accuracy. KW - Differentiated Instruction KW - Diagnostic Competency KW - Heterogeneity of Abilities KW - Teaching Quality KW - Teacher Professionalization Y1 - 2016 SN - 0044-3247 VL - 62 SP - 131 EP - 148 PB - Beltz CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Does it pay to be one of the oldest in class? BT - Relative age effects on academic self-concept, peer relations, and teacher judgments in German primary schools JF - Learning and instruction : the journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction N2 - Several studies have revealed that older students in a year group reach higher achievement scores than younger students in that group. But less is known about how students' relative age in class relates to their self-perception of academic achievement, their social acceptance in class and to how teachers judge their abilities. Therefore, we examined relative age effects within class on students' academic self-concept, peer relations, grades, and teachers' secondary school recommendation. Analyses were based on a sample of N = 18,956 German fourth graders, who had never been retained or accelerated. We applied multilevel regression to control for covariates at the individual and classroom level. There were no substantial relative age effects within class across any of the outcomes, except for a small advantage for the youngest in their reading self-concept. Our findings therefore contradict the common assumption that younger students in class are disadvantaged compared to their older classmates. KW - Relative age effects KW - Month of birth KW - Academic self-concept KW - Peer KW - relations KW - Teacher judgments Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101463 SN - 0959-4752 SN - 1873-3263 VL - 74 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -