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  - GEN
A1  - Richter, Eric
A1  - Kunter, Mareike
A1  - Marx, Alexandra
A1  - Richter, Dirk
T1  - Who Participates in Content-Focused Teacher Professional Development? Evidence From a Large Scale Study
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 739 
KW  - teacher learning
KW  - professional development
KW  - content knowledge
KW  - teacher quality
KW  - in-service training
KW  - Matthew effect
KW  - continuing education activities
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-537219
SN  - 1866-8364
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Universität Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kampa, Nele
A1  - Kunter, Mareike
A1  - Maaz, Kai
A1  - Baumert, Jürgen
T1  - The social background of maths teachers in Germany its connection with professional occupation and job-related convictions among teachers at secondary schools
JF  - Zeitschrift für Pädagogik
N2  - The present article analyzes the socio-economic background of maths teachers in Germany and its relation to career-related decisions and job-related convictions. These analyzes is based on data collected through questionnaires answered by 1126 maths teachers working at a sample of secondary schools representative of Germany. Following Bourdieu's theory, the authors examine whether the economic and cultural conditions prevailing in the teachers' families of origin are related to their decision to pursue this specific professional career or to their job-related convictions. Furthermore, it is analyzed in how far teachers, in their everyday work in the classroom, meet students from groups of origin foreign to the teachers themselves. The results show that the teachers, socio-economic background has no systematic relation to either their career-related decisions or their job-related convictions.
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 0044-3247
VL  - 57
IS  - 1
SP  - 70
EP  - 92
PB  - Beltz
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -