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Acculturation and developmental theories and frameworks have merged steadily to portray the development and adaptation of immigrant children more comprehensively. In this article, we trace this evolution to show how research has increasingly provided greater specificity in identifying the domains, dimensions, and contexts of acculturation processes, as integrated with greater concern for developmental principles. Although models have become more complex and comprehensive, we still need well-formulated theoretical explanations for the many processes that link development with acculturation and subsequent adjustment. We argue that novel developmental and acculturation concepts could advance specific lines of research situated in these complex models. By continuing to integrate developmental science and acculturation research more explicitly, we can arrive at a clearer and more complete understanding of how immigrant children and youth adapt across the lifespan.
Professional development on fostering students’ academic language proficiency across the curriculum
(2019)
This meta-analysis aggregates effects from 10 studies evaluating professional development interventions aimed at qualifying in-service teachers to support their students in mastering academic language skills while teaching their respective subject areas. The analysis of a subset of studies revealed a small non-significant weighted training effect on teachers' cognition (g' = 0.21, SE = 0.14). An effect aggregation including all studies (with 650 teachers) revealed a medium to large weighted overall effect on teachers' classroom practices (g' = 0.71, SE = 0.16). Methodological variables moderated the effect magnitude. Nevertheless, the results suggest professional development is beneficial for improving teachers' practice.
Der Einstieg in die berufliche Praxis ist für Lehramtsstudierende verbunden mit einer Vielzahl von Anforderungen. Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen gelten als personenbezogene Ressource, um mit den vielfältigen Anforderungssituationen umzugehen. Die soziale Unterstützung durch Mentoring gilt demgegenüber als wichtige umgebungsbezogene Ressource. Ressourcen sind von hoher Bedeutung, um Belastungen beim Berufseinstieg zu bewältigen. Allerdings ist bislang wenig bekannt über das Zusammenwirken zwischen personen- und umgebungsbezogenen Ressourcen. Die vorliegende längsschnittliche Studie untersucht daher, welche Rolle Mentoring und Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen für den Umgang mit Beanspruchungsfolgen im Praxissemester spielen. Des Weiteren wird untersucht, inwiefern Mentoring den Zusammenhang zwischen Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen und negativen Beanspruchungsfolgen, in diesem Fall emotionaler Erschöpfung und reduzierter Leistungsfähigkeit, moderiert. Die empirische Grundlage der Untersuchung sind Fragebogendaten von 192 Lehramtsstudierenden, die zu Beginn und zum Ende ihres viermonatigen Praxissemesters befragt wurden. Multiple Regressionsanalysen zeigen, dass hohe Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen zu Beginn des Praxissemesters mit geringerer emotionaler Erschöpfung sowie mit höherer Leistungsfähigkeit zum Ende des Praxissemesters einhergehen. Der Zusammenhang zwischen den Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen und der Leistungsfähigkeit wird durch die von den Lehramtsstudierenden wahrgenommene soziale Unterstützung durch Mentoring moderiert. Die Implikationen der Ergebnisse für die Lehrkräftebildung werden diskutiert.
Neben familiären Merkmalen hat sich die Kindergartenqualität als bedeutsam für den Wortschatz von Kindergartenkindern gezeigt. Die drei Dimensionen der Kindergartenqualität, die Struktur‑, Orientierungs- und Prozessqualität, wurden bisher jedoch nicht simultan und domänenspezifisch in Bezug auf den Wortschatz untersucht. In der vorliegenden Studie wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Dimensionen der Kindergartenqualität unter Berücksichtigung familiärer Merkmale mit dem Wortschatz von Kindern auf Individual- und Kindergartenebene zusammenhängen. Die Datengrundlage bildete eine Teilstichprobe des nationalen Bildungspanels („National Educational Panel Study“, NEPS) mit N = 1165 Kindern in 139 Kindergärten. Die durchgeführten Mehrebenenanalysen ergaben, dass zur Prädiktion des Wortschatzes auf Individualebene die familiären Merkmale bedeutsam waren, während Unterschiede zwischen Kindergärten mittels der Kindergartenqualität erklärt werden konnten. Dabei waren alle drei Qualitätsdimensionen relevant. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund verschiedener Qualitätskonzeptionen diskutiert.
Achievement emotions are important prerequisites for academic outcomes and well-being, yet little is known about their relation to teaching quality. This study examines the relation between student-perceived teaching quality in mathematics classrooms in grade 9 and enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom in grade 10, at both the student and classroom levels. The original data set included 6020 students who participated in the German national extension of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Multilevel regression analyses showed that teacher support and classroom management were negatively related to student-level anxiety and boredom. Teacher support was positively related to enjoyment and negatively related to anxiety at the classroom level. Cognitive activation was positively related to enjoyment and negatively related to boredom at the classroom level. Classroom management was negatively related to classroom-level boredom. These results provide insight into differential classroom processes regarding the role of teaching quality in various aspects of student achievement emotions.
Value-added (VA) modeling can be used to quantify teacher and school effectiveness by estimating the effect of pedagogical actions on students’ achievement. It is gaining increasing importance in educational evaluation, teacher accountability, and high-stakes decisions. We analyzed 370 empirical studies on VA modeling, focusing on modeling and methodological issues to identify key factors for improvement. The studies stemmed from 26 countries (68% from the USA). Most studies applied linear regression or multilevel models. Most studies (i.e., 85%) included prior achievement as a covariate, but only 2% included noncognitive predictors of achievement (e.g., personality or affective student variables). Fifty-five percent of the studies did not apply statistical adjustments (e.g., shrinkage) to increase precision in effectiveness estimates, and 88% included no model diagnostics. We conclude that research on VA modeling can be significantly enhanced regarding the inclusion of covariates, model adjustment and diagnostics, and the clarity and transparency of reporting.
What is the added value from attending a certain school or being taught by a certain teacher? To answer this question, the value-added (VA) model was developed. In this model, the actual achievement attained by students attending a certain school or being taught by a certain teacher is juxtaposed with the achievement that is expected for students with the same background characteristics (e.g., pretest scores). To this end, the VA model can be used to compute a VA score for each school or teacher, respectively. If actual achievement is better than expected achievement, there is a positive effect (i.e., a positive VA score) of attending a certain school or being taught by a certain teacher. In other words, VA models have been developed to “make fair comparisons of the academic progress of pupils in different settings” (Tymms 1999, p. 27). Their aim is to operationalize teacher or school effectiveness objectively. Specifically, VA models are often used for accountability purposes and high-stakes decisions (e.g., to allocate financial or personal resources to schools or even to decide which teachers should be promoted or discharged). Consequently, VA modeling is a highly political topic, especially in the USA, where many states have implemented VA or VA-based models for teacher evaluation (Amrein-Beardsley and Holloway 2017; Kurtz 2018). However, this use for high-stakes decisions is highly controversial and researchers seem to disagree concerning the question if VA scores should be used for decision-making (Goldhaber 2015). For a more exhaustive discussion of the use of VA models for accountability reasons, see, for example, Scherrer (2011).
Given the far-reaching impact of VA scores, it is surprising that there is scarcity of systematic reviews of how VA scores are computed, evaluated, and how this research is reported. To this end, we review 370 empirical studies from 26 countries to rigorously examine several key issues in VA modeling, involving (a) the statistical model (e.g., linear regression, multilevel model) that is used, (b) model diagnostics and reported statistical parameters that are used to evaluate the quality of the VA model, (c) the statistical adjustments that are made to overcome methodological challenges (e.g., measurement error of the outcome variables), and (d) the covariates (e.g., pretest scores, students’ sociodemographic background) that are used when estimating expected achievement.
All this information is critical for meeting the transparency standards defined by the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2006). Transparency is vital for educational research in general and especially for highly consequential research, such as VA modeling. First, transparency is highly relevant for researchers. The clearer the description of the model, the easier it is to build upon the knowledge of previous research and to safeguard the potential for replicating previous results. Second, because decisions that are based on VA scores affect teachers’ lives and schools’ futures, not only educational agents but also the general public should be able to comprehend how these scores are calculated to allow for public scrutiny. Specifically, given that VA scores can have devastating consequences on teachers’ lives and on the students they teach, transparency is particularly important to evaluate the chosen methodology to compute VA models for a certain purpose. Such evaluations are essential to answer the question to what extent the quality of VA scores allows to base far-reaching decisions on these scores for accountability purposes.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse data on first-year students’ needs regarding academic support services and reasons for their intention to leave the institution prior to degree completion. On the basis of the findings, a digital badge outline is proposed which could contribute to improved communication of academic requirements in order to help students to better adapt to higher education demands. Digital badges might also serve as an indicator for students’ needing additional academic support services.
Do stereotypes strike twice?
(2019)
Stereotypes influence teachers' perception of and behaviour towards students, thus shaping students' learning opportunities. The present study investigated how 315 Australian pre-service teachers' stereotypes about giftedness and gender are related to their perception of students' intellectual ability, adjustment, and social-emotional ability, using an experimental vignette approach and controlling for social desirability in pre-service teachers' responses. Repeated-measures ANOVA showed that pre-service teachers associated giftedness with higher intellectual ability, but with less adjustment compared to average-ability students. Furthermore, pre-service teachers perceived male students as less socially and emotionally competent and less adjusted than female students. Additionally, pre-service teachers seemed to perceive female average-ability students' adjustment as most favourable compared to male average-ability students and gifted students. Findings point to discrepancies between actual characteristics of gifted female and male students and stereotypes in teachers' beliefs. Consequences of stereotyping and implications for teacher education are discussed.
Viele Bundesländer stellen aktuell verstärkt Quer- und Seiteneinsteiger/innen in den Schuldienst ein. Aufgrund der geringeren berufsspezifischen Qualifizierung der Quer- und Seiteneinsteiger/innen kann vermutet werden, dass deren Integration in das Kollegium für Schulen häufig mit besonderem Aufwand verbunden ist. Aus diesem Grund soll in diesem Beitrag der Frage nachgegangen werden, an welchen Schularten und welchen Schulen Quereinsteiger/innen eingesetzt werden. Auf Basis der Schulstatistik des Landes Berlin für das Schuljahr 2016/17 wird untersucht, ob sich der Anteil von Referendar/inn/en und Quereinsteiger/inne/n am Lehrerkollegium der Schule in Abhängigkeit von der Komposition der Schülerschaft unterscheidet. Ausgewertet wurden die Daten von 2645 Personen, von denen 901 als Quereinsteigende unterrichten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass ein Großteil der Quereinsteiger/innen an Grundschulen eingesetzt werden und hier insbesondere an solchen, die sich durch eine sozial benachteiligte Schülerschaft auszeichnen. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit einer verstärkten Steuerung in der Zuweisung von Quereinsteiger/innen an Schulen.
Ziel der Studie ist die Untersuchung der individuellen und schulbezogenen Bedingungen der elterlichen häuslichen Unterstützung schulbezogener Lernprozesse von Schülerinnen und Schülern der Sekundarstufe I. Des Weiteren wurde untersucht, inwieweit diese Unterstützung mit der Veränderung der intrinsischen Motivation und des akademischen Selbstkonzeptes der Lernenden einhergeht. Der Beitrag zum Forschungsstand liegt neben der längsschnittlichen Untersuchung in der Analyse möglicher Moderatoren der Zusammenhänge. Für die Analysen wurden Fragebogendaten von n=157 Lernenden (MAlter=14.5) sowie deren Eltern genutzt. Als zentrales Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass Eltern ihre Kinder häuslich unterstützen, wenn Eltern ihr eigenes Schulengagement als nützlich wahrnehmen. Die Unterstützung im häuslichen Umfeld steht in positivem Zusammenhang zur Veränderung der intrinsischen Motivation. Sowohl die von Eltern wahrgenommene Kooperationsbereitschaft der Klassenlehrkraft als auch die Vielfalt des elterlichen Engagements im schulischen Umfeld moderieren den Zusammenhang zwischen häuslicher Unterstützung durch Eltern und dem akademischen Selbstkonzept. Limitationen wie die Verzerrung der Elternstichprobe sowie praktische Implikationen werden diskutiert.