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- BOOK! CHOTT, P.O./BARTH, G.: 'Learning to learn' together in school
Published in Ernst-Vögel-Verlag Munich, 2008 - Preview - LEARNING RESEARCH: How Reconstruct Students in Elementary School their Lessons?
Contributions by Maria FÖLLING-ALBERS, Michael and Thomas HAIDER: In a longitudinal study the authors surveyed how students of the third and fourth grades regard the segnificance of lessons experienced before. It could be showed, that the capability of reconstruction mainly depends in as how interesting the lessons were being percieves by students. Imminent reports, but also gender, migrationalbackground and the capacity of the students have influenceon their reconstruction of lessons.
published in: Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung 36. Jg. (2008) H4/S. 327-345
(http://www.juventa.de) - RESEARCH: Teacher's School Track Recommendations and Parents' School Track Dicisions at the End of Primary School
Contributions by Tobias C. STUBBE and Wilfried BOS: The study shows how to develop path models to explain track recommendations and decisions at the end of primary school. It transpires that next to school performance and school criteria like grades and effort also social charcteristics like student's sex, immingrant background and social status schow a correlation with teachers' school track recommendations and parents' schooltrack decision.
published in: Empirische Pädagogik (Themenheft 'Arbeitszeit für die Schule) H1/ 22. Jg. 2008/ S. 49 - 63
(http://www.vep-landau.de) - LEARNING RESEARCH: Primary school teachers' achievement expectations towards futur secondary students
Contribution by Uwe MAIER. The teachers' achievement expectations were measured wih a rating of math problems and vary within a great range. In urban districts, the expectations is a good predicator for the secondary school recommendation. Also ther local secondary offer determines the math achievement expectations.
Empirische Pädagogik (Themenheft 'Arbeitszeit für die Schule) H1/ 21. Jg. 2007/S. 38-57
(http://www.vep-landau.de) - LEARNING RESEARCH:The Role of Immigration Background
Contributions by Petra STANAT, Alexandra SHAJEK/Oliver LÜDTKE/Petra STANAT und Oliver WALTER u.a.. The existing research is less than satisfactory, particularly with the regard to the effectiveness of special support measures. Also the results from multiple group structural equation models show that immigrant students have more negative verbal and more positive mathematical self-concepts than their peers from native families. Depending on students' immigrant status, their gender, their competency level and the domain, students have cross-curricular competencies that are at a higher level than their competencies in the main domain of PISA.
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H2/2006), Juventa, Weinheim
(http://www.juventa.de) - RESEARCH: Instructional environments - keeping constant or changing?
Contribution by Thomas GÖTZ et al.: The questionings of 720 instructors of different schooltypes show that within the methodical organization of instruction cooperative instruction forms increases.
Empirische Pädagogik H4/ 19. Jg. 2005/S. 342-360
(http://www.vep-landau.de) - RESEARCH: Students and Leisure Time- Children's Interests Today
Contribustion by Christiane PRUISKEN: 544 forth graders filled out a questionaire about interest areas, hobbies and the use of spare time groups. The children showed broad and high interests. The results lead to educational suggestions.
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H3/2005), Juventa, Weinheim
(http://www.juventa.de) - RESEARCH: Learning and Questioning
This copy contains contributions to Learning and Questioning in University and School Lessons.
Anne Levin/Karl-Heinz Arnold: Activequestioning in University Lessons...;
Heinz Neber: Promotion of Epistemic Questioning in Religious Instruction;
Detlef Sembill/Katrin Gut-Sembill: Questions behind Students Questioning;
Gudrun Glowalla/Ulrich Gölowalla: Learning from Expository Text...;
Helmut Niegemann: Learning and Questioning: State-of-the-Art and Pespectives
Summary: Several theoretical approaches explain questioning and provide evidence that qustion asking requires a considerable amount of prerequisite knowledge as well as metacognitive skills. Empirical studies indicate that learners' questions generally habe positive effects in learning outcomes. A bunch of studies shows that question asking can be trained in classromm successfully. Unfortunately the possibilities seem to be used scarely at universities and schools. (Look at 'learning to learn' obove!)
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H4/2004), Juventa, Weinheim
(http://www.juventa.de) - 'Mathetica'- seminar at
This series of seminars will be realized by Heidelberger Life-Science Lab (member of the German Center of Cancer Research (DKFZ) sponsered by Wissenschaftlichen Verlag Springer) in Heidelberg/ Germany. The seminars are founded on 'Construcivism' and 'Mathetica' and the contents are the theory and the concret results of "the art of learning". The goal is to come to 'Self-organized learning'.
http://life-science-lab.xmachina.de/zope/LifeScienceLab/content/e4/e525/index_ger.html - RESEARCH: Teaching Stochastic Thinking
(Contributions by GIGERENZER: The Evolution of Statistic Thinking; FIEDLER/PLESSNER: The Sampling-Trap: Can Awareness for Metacognitive Problems in Stochastic Thinking be Taught?; KRAUSS/ATAMACA: How to Teach Difficult Stochastic Problems...; WASSNER/MARTIGNON/BIEHLER. Bayesian Inference in School)
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H1/2004), Juventa, Weinheim
(http://www.juventa.de) - Publication!
"Vice-Headmaster Study" 2003 ed. by Chott P.O./Schmirber G
Abstract in German language!
Look also the abstracts:
http://www.presse.uni-augsburg.de/unipressedienst/2004/pm2004_048.shtml or
http://idw-online.de/de/news78449 - Published by Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Munich 2003;
to order under http://www.hss.de/4703.shtml or
download pdf-file Auswertung der KR-Untersuchung 2003 - Results to research about "Female leadership"
by Kansteiner-Schänzlin, K. hott P.O./Schmirber G
Look also at www.paedagogische-fuehrung.de!
Pädagogische Führung H3/2003/S. 129-133 (KANSTEINER-SCHÄNZLIN, K.: Führen Frauen anders als Männer? Unterschiede und Übereinstimmungen in der Schulleitung) - "Burdens on teachers" - Results of a research work
SchulVerwaltung BY H10/2003/S. 332-334 - 14. Shellstudy about youth
www.shell-jugendstudie.de - "Bullying at Schools"
New studies about the bullying-issue at school Dr. Mechthild SchäferInstitut for Pädagogische Psychologie and Empirische Pädagogik LMU Munich
phon: ++49-89-2180-5240 und ++49-89-2180-5146 (Sekretariat)
E-Mail: mechthild.schaefer[at]gmx.de - The Philadelphia-Experiment
What happened with a school, which is run by a commercial company? Report about the Edison-schools
www.zeit.de/2003/34/B-PHILADELPHIA - Attractive Primaryschool: To ask and to further every child
Recommendable handbook (collecting file), in which several fields of Primaryschool are treated by experts. Abstract!
Published by Raabe-Verlag Berlin 2003 - dyslexia training Interesting
contribution about improving orthographical issues at school.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover - 'Culture of errors'
Contributions about 'How to deal with errors in mathematics'. Reinhard Forthaus (p. 9-13) writes about several views and stood up for taking the childrens' ways of learning into consideration of evaluation. Klaus-Peter Eichler (p. 14-16) writes about mistakes, which are not accidental results and found the way to constructivism. Kirsten Thiemann (p. 22-25) dedicates errors during written multiplication and shows tasks to diagnose the mistakes.. Peter Jansen (p. 17-21) shows how to deal with wrong arithmitical concepts of pupils, which are below average
Grundschule 35. Jg. (2003) H3/S. 9-30 - 'Self-determinated learning'
Several interesting contributions about enhancing of 'Self-determinated learning' at school.
Results:- Parents often create school-like structures to support homework. The better way is, parents reflect collaborative learning and allow the child to feel autonomous and competent
- The impact of a diary is demonstrated
- It ist useful to explicity instruct trainees to control the application of a learning strategy in such a way that the specific goal of the strategy will be reached.
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung 31. Jg. (2003) p. 2-56
- 'Settling quarrels by pupils'
(Several interesting contributions about this issue at schools.)
PÄDAGOGIK H1/Jan 2003/S.3-38 - Results to research about 'Cooperative Instruction in Different School Environments'
(Contribution about Jigsaw as a cooperative learning method, which was implemented in eight different classes at eight different elementary schools. Results: The analysis of the different school environments show that cooperative instruction was particularly effective for schools with felxible organizional structures and an openness toward cooperative learning. A positive class climate and a positive attitude of the teacher toward the student-centered learning method were also important for the successful implementation of cooperative learning.)
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H4/2002/p. 367-384) - In the German news-magazine Focus Nr. 43/21-10-2002 read about 'Learning to learn'
(Contributions about the best practice strategies to learn, tips from experts and interviews with Prof. Heinz Mandl, Prof. Wassilios Fthenakis, Prof. Henning Schlei)
http://paedpsych.jk.uni-linz.ac.at/INTERNET/PRESSEORD/Focus021021.html - Results to 'Homework research'
(Contributions by WAGNER, P. & SPIEL, C.: Homework research - a pleading for a stronger theoretical foundation; TRAUTWEIN, U. & KÖLLER, O.: Homework in english as a foreign language: Effects on the development of student achievment and interest; HAAG, L. & MISCHKO, C.: Homework: Determinants and effects of learning behavior; SPIEL, C. & WAGNER, P.: How long and for what subjects do pupils ork at home for school?; WAGNER, P. & SPIEL, C.: Working at home for school and scholl achievment: An analysis of personality variables, work habits, and learning conditions in general secondary school and academic secondary school)
Empirische Pädagogik (Themenheft 'Arbeitszeit für die Schule) H3/ 16. Jg. 2002/3. Quartal - Results of an empirical study 2002 (by Staatsinstitut für Schulpädagogik und Bildungsforschung München) about the 'school development' in Bavaria
(for example.: the more development in school, the better; the main problem is: a lag of personal ressources; the main reason for a development is: getting contentment)
ISB - Main results of the
http://www.shell-jugendstudie.de/hauptergebnisse.htm - Results of studies to concepts about "Quality of Instruction"
(Contributions by DITTON: Points of view about separable conceptions or research traditions, EDER: Classroom environment and Quality of Instruction, ROßBACH: Quality fo Instruction in Second Grade Classrooms - Results of an Empirical Study; CLAUSEN/SCHNABEL/SCHRÖDER: Expert's Categorizations of Constructs of Instructional Quality, HELMKE: commentary)
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für Lernforschung H3/2002). - Results of an exmerimental study by Jens Möller: Changing Parents' Attitudes on Written School Reports by Providing Information
(Attitudes of those parents who were critical of written reports became more positive when they were informend about the descriptive function of these reports)
Unterrichtswissenschaft (Zeitschrift für LernforschungH3/2002) - LdL (Learning by teaching) in the Secondary school
LdL-Website MARTIN own experiences - Problem: How does "Knowledge management" work in schools?