TY - JOUR A1 - Gärtner, Holger A1 - Brunner, Martin T1 - Once good teaching, always good teaching? BT - the differential stability of student perceptions of teaching quality JF - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability N2 - In many countries, students are asked about their perceptions of teaching in order to make decisions about the further development of teaching practices on the basis of this feedback. The stability of this measurement of teaching quality is a prerequisite for the ability to generalize the results to other teaching situations. The present study aims to expand the extant empirical body of knowledge on the effects of situational factors on the stability of students’ perceptions of teaching quality. Therefore, we investigate whether the degree of stability is moderated by three situational factors: time between assessments, subjects taught by teachers, and students’ grade levels. To this end, we analyzed data from a web-based student feedback system. The study involved 497 teachers, each of whom conducted two student surveys. We examined the differential stability of student perceptions of 16 teaching constructs that were operationalized as latent correlations between aggregated student perceptions of the same teacher’s teaching. Testing metric invariance indicated that student ratings provided measures of teaching constructs that were invariant across time, subjects, and grade levels. Stability was moderated to some extent by grade level but not by subjects taught nor time spacing between surveys. The results provide evidence of the extent to which situational factors may affect the stability of student perceptions of teaching constructs. The generalizability of the students’ feedback results to other teaching situations is discussed. KW - Stability KW - Student perception KW - Instruction KW - Generalizability KW - Situation Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-018-9277-5 SN - 1874-8597 SN - 1874-8600 VL - 30 IS - 2 SP - 159 EP - 182 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wenger, Marina A1 - Gärtner, Holger A1 - Brunner, Martin T1 - To what extent are characteristics of a school's student body, instructional quality, school quality, and school achievement interrelated? JF - School effectiveness and school improvement N2 - The aim of educational policy should be to provide a good education to all students. Thus, a key question arises regarding the extent to which key characteristics of school composition (proportion of students with migration background, socioeconomic status [SES], prior school achievement, and achievement heterogeneity), instructional quality, school quality, and later school achievement are interrelated. The present study addressed this research question by examining school inspection data, official school statistics, and large-scale achievement data from all primary schools in Berlin, Germany (N = 343). The results of correlation and path analyses showed that school composition (average SES, average prior school achievement) predicted components of instructional quality (SES: classroom management, cognitive activation; achievement: cognitive activation, individual learning support). The relation between school composition characteristics and most components of school quality was close to zero. Contrary to our expectations, only the effect of school SES on later achievement was mediated by instructional quality. KW - school composition KW - instructional quality KW - school quality Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2020.1754243 SN - 0924-3453 SN - 1744-5124 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 548 EP - 575 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wenger, Marina A1 - Gärtner, Holger A1 - Brunner, Martin T1 - Wie verändert sich die Unterrichts- und Schulqualität, die Leistung und die Schülerzusammensetzung nach der Schulinspektionsdiagnose „erheblicher Entwicklungsbedarf“? T1 - How does instruction and school quality, school performance, and composition of the student body change after the school inspection diagnosis "considerable need for development"? JF - Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft N2 - Die Schulinspektion evaluiert Schulen mit dem Ziel der Qualitätssicherung von Unterrichts- und Schulqualität. Dies gilt insbesondere für Schulen, an denen „erheblicher Entwicklungsbedarf“ festgestellt wurde. Diese Schulen bekommen zusätzliche Unterstützung, erfahren aber auch zusätzlichen Druck durch diese Einordnung. Die weitere Entwicklung dieser Schulen ist bisher kaum erforscht. Diese Studie untersucht mit Daten der Schulinspektion, der amtlichen Statistik und Leistungsdaten von 333 Berliner Grundschulen Veränderungen in Indikatoren der Unterrichts- und Schulqualität, der Schulleistung, und der Zusammensetzung der Schülerschaft (SES und Anteil mit nicht-deutscher Herkunftssprache) nach der Diagnose „erheblicher Entwicklungsbedarf“. Die empirischen Analysen zeigten, dass sich bei diesen Schulen die Unterrichts- und Schulqualität nur geringfügig veränderte, sich der Leistungsabstand zu allen anderen Grundschulen nicht statistisch signifikant verringerte, und sich die Zusammensetzung der Schülerschaft hinsichtlich des sozioökonomischen Status (SES) nicht veränderte. Jedoch erhöhte sich der Anteil von Kindern mit nicht-deutscher Herkunftssprache statistisch signifikant. N2 - The School Inspectorate evaluates schools with the aim of quality assurance and quality development. This applies in particular to schools where "considerable need for development" has been identified. These schools receive additional support, but also experience additional pressure as a result. The further development of these schools has hardly been researched so far. Therefore, using data from the school inspectorate, official statistics and performance data from 333 Berlin primary schools, this study examines changes in indicators of instruction and school quality, school performance, and composition of the student body (SES and percentage of students from nonGerman-speaking homes) following the diagnosis "considerable need for development". The empirical analyses showed that at these schools instruction and school quality changed only slightly, the achievement gap did not decrease significantly in statistical terms (in comparison to all other primary schools), and the composition of the student body did not change with regard to socio-economic status (SES). However, a statistically significant increase of the proportion of students from non-German-speaking homes was observed. KW - school inspection KW - special measure KW - student performance KW - Schulinspektion KW - Entwicklungsbedarf KW - Schülerleistungen Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01066-3 SN - 1434-663X SN - 1862-5215 VL - 25 IS - 4 SP - 1031 EP - 1058 PB - VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften ; Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER -