TY - JOUR A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Kunter, Mareike A1 - Marx, Alexandra A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Who participates in content-focused teacher professional development? BT - Evidence from a large scale study JF - Frontiers in education N2 - This study investigates the relationship between teacher quality and teachers’ engagement in professional development (PD) activities using data on 229 German secondary school mathematics teachers. We assessed different aspects of teacher quality (e.g. professional knowledge, instructional quality) using a variety of measures, including standardised tests of teachers’ content knowledge, to determine what characteristics are associated with high participation in PD. The results show that teachers with higher scores for teacher quality variables take part in more content-focused PD than teachers with lower scores for these variables. This suggests that teacher learning may be subject to a Matthew effect, whereby more proficient teachers benefit more from PD than less proficient teachers. KW - teacher learning KW - professional development KW - content knowledge KW - teacher quality KW - in-service training KW - Matthew effect KW - continuing education activities Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.722169 SN - 2504-284X IS - 6 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne, Schweiz ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Brunner, Martin A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Teacher educators’ task perception and its relationship to professional identity and teaching practice JF - Teaching and teacher education : an international journal of research and studies N2 - We assessed teacher educators? task perception and investigated its relationship with components of their professional identity and their teaching practice. Using data from 145 teacher educators, two different task perceptions were found: transmitters and facilitators. Teacher educators who were categorized as facilitator tend to demonstrate higher levels of self-efficacy, job satisfaction, constructivist beliefs about teaching and learning and use more effective teaching strategies. The findings demonstrate that teaching practices of teacher educators are rooted in their professional identity. ? 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). KW - Teacher educator KW - Professional identity KW - Professional development KW - Teacher learning KW - Teacher education Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103303 SN - 0742-051X VL - 101 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Lucksnat, Christin A1 - Redding, Christopher A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Retention intention and job satisfaction of alternatively certified teachers in their first year of teaching JF - Teaching and Teacher Education N2 - In this study, we investigated retention intention and job satisfaction of 238 first-year alternatively certified (AC) teachers. Drawing on Organizational Socialization Theory, we tested the hypothesis that AC teacher extraversion and perceived school support are positively related to the two variables and mediated by self-efficacy. To test our hypothesis, we applied structural equation modeling. Our results demonstrate that extraversion and perceived social support are positively related to retention intentions and job satisfaction. In addition, self-efficacy serves as a mediator. The findings could help school administrators to better understand how to support and retain AC teachers and thus address teacher shortages. KW - Second-career teachers KW - Self-efficacy KW - Job satisfaction KW - Personality KW - Support KW - Teacher well-being KW - Turnover KW - Attrition KW - Onboarding Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103704 SN - 0742-051X VL - 114 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Four reasons for becoming a teacher educator BT - a large-scale study on teacher educators' motives and well-being JF - Teaching and teacher education : an international journal of research and studies N2 - We developed a new survey instrument to investigate teacher educators? motives for entering the profession and examined the associations between motives and job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion in both teachers and teacher educators. Using data from 145 teacher educators instructing in-service teachers, we identified four motives: career aspirations, social contribution, escaping routines, and coincidence. While escaping routines represents a ?push? factor associated with emotional exhaustion in teachers, career aspirations represent a ?pull? factor associated with job satisfaction in teacher educators. The instrument can be used as a self-assessment tool for the recruitment of teacher educators. ? 2021 The Authors. KW - Teacher educator KW - Career change KW - Well-being KW - Emotional exhaustion KW - Professional development KW - Motives Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103322 SN - 0742-051X SN - 1879-2480 VL - 102 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huang, Yizhen A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Kleickmann, Thilo A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Comparing video and virtual reality as tools for fostering interest and self-efficacy in classroom management BT - results of a pre-registered experiment JF - British journal of educational technology / British Educational Communications and Technology Agency N2 - Video is a widely used medium in teacher training for situating student teachers in classroom scenarios. Although the emerging technology of virtual reality (VR) provides similar, and arguably more powerful, capabilities for immersing teachers in lifelike situations, its benefits and risks relative to video formats have received little attention in the research to date. The current study used a randomized pretest-posttest experimental design to examine the influence of a video- versus VR-based task on changing situational interest and self-efficacy in classroom management. Results from 49 student teachers revealed that the VR simulation led to higher increments in self-reported triggered interest and self-efficacy in classroom management, but also invoked higher extraneous cognitive load than a video viewing task. We discussed the implications of these results for pre-service teacher education and the design of VR environments for professional training purposes. Practitioner notes What is already known about this topic Video is a popular teacher training medium given its ability to display classroom situations. Virtual reality (VR) also immerses users in lifelike situations and has gained popularity in recent years. Situational interest and self-efficacy in classroom management is vital for student teachers' professional development. What this paper adds VR outperforms video in promoting student teachers' triggered interest in classroom management. Student teachers felt more efficacious in classroom management after participating in VR. VR also invoked higher extraneous cognitive load than the video. Implications for practice and/or policy VR provides an authentic teacher training environment for classroom management. The design of the VR training environment needs to ensure a low extraneous cognitive load. KW - cognitive load KW - immersive media KW - pre-service teacher KW - professional KW - training KW - simulations KW - student teacher KW - teacher education Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13254 SN - 0007-1013 SN - 1467-8535 VL - 54 IS - 2 SP - 467 EP - 488 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huang, Yizhen A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Kleickmann, Thilo A1 - Wiepke, Axel A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Classroom complexity affects student teachers’ behavior in a VR classroom JF - Computers & education : an international journal N2 - Student teachers often struggle to keep track of everything that is happening in the classroom, and particularly to notice and respond when students cause disruptions. The complexity of the classroom environment is a potential contributing factor that has not been empirically tested. In this experimental study, we utilized a virtual reality (VR) classroom to examine whether classroom complexity affects the likelihood of student teachers noticing disruptions and how they react after noticing. Classroom complexity was operationalized as the number of disruptions and the existence of overlapping disruptions (multidimensionality) as well as the existence of parallel teaching tasks (simultaneity). Results showed that student teachers (n = 50) were less likely to notice the scripted disruptions, and also less likely to respond to the disruptions in a comprehensive and effortful manner when facing greater complexity. These results may have implications for both teacher training and the design of VR for training or research purpose. This study contributes to the field from two aspects: 1) it revealed how features of the classroom environment can affect student teachers' noticing of and reaction to disruptions; and 2) it extends the functionality of the VR environment-from a teacher training tool to a testbed of fundamental classroom processes that are difficult to manipulate in real-life. KW - Augmented and virtual reality KW - Simulations KW - Improving classroom KW - teaching KW - Media in education KW - Pedagogical issues Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104100 SN - 0360-1315 SN - 1873-782X VL - 163 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huang, Yizhen A1 - Richter, Eric A1 - Kleickmann, Thilo A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Class size affects preservice teachers' physiological and psychological stress reactions BT - an experiment in a virtual reality classroom JF - Computers & education : an international journal N2 - Teachers frequently express stress associated with teaching in large classrooms. Despite the timehonored tradition in teacher stress research of treating class size as a job-related stressor, the underlying premise that class size directly impacts teachers' stress reactions remains untested. In this randomized controlled experiment targeted at preservice teachers, we utilized a standardized virtual reality (VR) classroom to examine whether class size (number of student avatars) directly affected physiological (heart rate) or psychological (subjective rating) stress reactions among 65 preservice teachers. Results from linear mixed-effects modeling (LMM) showed that class size significantly predicted both their physiological and psychological stress reactions in the simulated environment: Average heart rate and subjective stress ratings were both significantly higher in the large class size condition. Further investigations into the causes of this association has been proposed. These findings may contribute to a better understanding of the effects of classroom features on preservice teachers' emotional experiences and well-being. KW - Augmented and virtual reality KW - Simulations KW - Improving classroom teaching KW - Media in education KW - Pedagogical issues Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2022.104503 SN - 0360-1315 SN - 1873-782X VL - 184 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -