Schulreform,Pädagogik und Psychologie: Zur Geschichte des Wiener Psychologischen Instituts

The founding of the Vienna Psychological Institute in 1922 seemed to offer great opportunities for developing a disciplinary field in empirical pedagogy. Organizationally, the new institute was closely related to the Vienna Pedagogical Institute, which was the central teachers’ training college in Red Vienna and therefore the institutional centre of the socialdemocratic educational reforms. Besides their lectures at the university, Karl and Charlotte Bühler were lecturing psychology for teachers at the Pedagogical Institute. Despite their initial programmatic promise to build up an international centre of pedagogical psychology in Vienna, they and their co‐workers largely refrained from applied research in pedagogical fields during the following years. In view of the good occasions for cooperation it is surprising that contact between the research interests of the Bühler‐School and the work of the educational reformers was rare. The most important person in this context was Karl Reininger who dedicated his own social‐psychological research to the problems of group‐forming in school classes. Shortly after her arrival in Vienna, Charlotte Bühler conducted research on the reading preferences of Viennese school pupils. Getting money from the Rockefeller Foundation, she turned away from applied research and contributed substantially to elaborating a biological theory of mental development.     

Einschätzungen der schulischen Motivation und des Arbeitsverhaltens durch Grundschullehrkräfte und deren Bedeutung für Verzerrungen in Leistungserwartungen

Several studies have shown that teachers’ achievement expectations for their students may be biased to some extent by students’ ethnic or social background as well as gender. The present study investigates whether these biases in teachers’ expectations of students’ performance in early language and mathematics are partly explained by differences in teachers’ perceptions of students’ motivation and learning behaviour. The analyses are based on data from a sample of N?=?901 first-grade students from N?=?66 classrooms with 69 teachers. The results support the hypothesis for biases associated with social background and gender. Ethnic bias, however, occurred independently of differences in perceived motivation and learning behaviour. We discuss the relevance of stereotypical assumptions for teaching as well as educational disparities.     

Primäre und sekundäre Disparitäten des Hochschulzugangs: Erklärungsmodelle,Datengrundlagen und Entwicklungen

The present article addresses the question of how social origin affects access to higher education. The role of class-specific differences in school performance (primary effect) and cost-benefit considerations (secondary effect) are considered as well as the way in which changes in the institutional setup of the educational system may interact with social origin. The review shows that educational decisions at this later transition are mainly influenced by secondary effects. In particular, differences between social classes are explained by group-specific investment costs and expectations of the social context associated with continuing higher education. Although expansion of institutional pathways in upper secondary education has reduced social inequality in acquiring higher education entrance qualifications, secondary effects at the transition to university have been found to increase over time. Thus, within younger cohorts, high-school graduates with lower social status are more often diverted from higher education at universities by attractive vocational or nonuniversity pathways. The article discusses approaches to reduce secondary effects of social origin.     

Stichwort: Soziale Benachteiligung und Bewältigung

Ohne Zusammenfassung     

Pädagogische Begleitung: Handlungsform und Systemmerkmal

This contribution aims to lay down the theoretical potential of accompaniment as a phenomenon and developing this point further from a pedagogical perspective. The core assumption is that accompaniment represents both a pedagogically relevant phenomenon of action as well as an essential characteristic of the system. In this sense, accompaniment can be understood as creating a possibility for looking at phenomena of education on a micro and a macro level. Thus, the assumption follows that a central signature of the social system – namely that of inclusion – has already been incorporated by the pedagogically organized system of lifelong learning a long time ago. This finding has far-reaching consequences for levelling the hierarchy between different layers of the education and learning systems.     

Ausbildungs- und Berufserfolg im Lehramtsstudium im Vergleich zum Diplom-Studium – Zur prognostischen Validität kognitiver und psycho-motivationaler Auswahlkriterien

The basis of this study is a prognostic model derived from the theory of work and organizational psychology, from research about the selection of college students and from teaching and learning research. The model includes cognitive and psycho-motivational criteria for selecting students as well as objective and subjective indicators for study and job success. In a four-year longitudinal study with three measuring points, the prognostic validity of the selection criteria is tested (n?=?760). The basic hypotheses are that differences in the prognostic validity of the model for teacher training and subject-specific diploma students (both in the area of mathematics) exist, and that it is easier to predict study success than job success. Secondary school exit exam, classes in advanced mathematics, interest in mathematics, subject-specific study motivation and self-efficacy are the predictive indicators taken into account. Evaluative indicators for study success are study duration, intentions of dropping out, stress experiences, the results of university exit exam and students’ second state exam. Evaluative indicators for occupational success are the job status five years after graduation, job satisfaction and stress experiences. Bivariate correlations and regression analyses support the leading hypotheses.     

Stichwort: Bildungsräume – Bildung und Raum

In this article theoretical aspects of historically formed differences between living spaces and educational spaces are examined. From different spatial science perspectives, aspects of unboundedness, of narrowing and of exclusion are taken into account and understood as forms of territorialisation or of de- or reterritorialization processes. Along the perspectives of ‘immaterial space reproductions’, ‘spatial practices’, ‘architecture’ and ‘spatial contexts’ key results of spatial sensitive educational research is outlined. As desiderata especially methodological problems but also content-related ‘blind spots’ are discussed. The development of empirical research and a theoretical perspective is addressed with which it can be asked for the educational potential of societal and especially pedagogical space relations in view to the interwoven power-and-subjectification practices.     

Pädagogisch-psychologisches Wissen von Lehrkräften aus Schule und Erwachsenenbildung: Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Testinstruments

Teachers’ pedagogical/psychological knowledge (PPK) is an important aspect of teacher competence. All conceptualisations developed so far assume that PPK is general and not specific for subjects or educational contexts. The authors take up this assumption and examine empirically whether PPK of school teachers and adult education teachers is general, i.?e. generic for subjects and educational contexts. Based on a conceptualisation validated through an expert survey (N = 44) the development of a digital test instrument with text- and videobased items is described. The article reports on the results of the structure, reliability, and DIF analyses of two PPK-facets on a total of N = 212 school and adult education teachers; analyses showed that both facets can be measured reliably with only small DIF-effects. The results point to the fact that – largely in line with the results of a literature content analysis and the expert survey – PPK is general over educational contexts. Finally, results are discussed with regard to the potentials of videobased instruments to measure teachers’ professional competence.     

Notwendigkeit und Ziele eines neuen schulischen Lernbereiches: Entwicklungsländer und Entwicklungspolitik

Ohne ZusammenfassungDieser Aufsatz ist die Kurzfassung eines im Februar 1972 abgeschlossenen Manuskripts.     

Zur Diskussion über die Konvergenz ökonomischer und pädagogischer Prinzipien betrieblicher Personal-und Organisationsentwicklung

Die These von der Konvergenz ?konomischer und p?dagogischer Prinzipien betrieblicher Personal-und Organisationsentwicklung findet in der Erziehungswissenschaft einflussreiche Verfechter. In diesem Beitrag werden vier Kritikpunkte zum Literaturstand bezüglich der Konvergenzdebatte entwickelt und n?her erl?utert. Um den Diskussionsstand weiter zu entwickeln, wird ein theoretisches Konzept vorgestellt, das die Schw?chen der kritisierten Ans?tze vermeidet. Die individuelle Kompetenzentwicklung der Besch?ftigten wird als Voraussetzung dafür gesehen, dass dem Betrieb ein umfangreiches Kompetenzspektrum zur Verfügung steht. Damit der Betrieb dieses Kompetenzspektrum nutzen kann, müssen Bedingungen gegeben sein, unter denen die Besch?ftigten einen Nutzen in der Anwendung ihrer Kompetenz sehen. Sind diese gegeben, erh?ht sich die Wahrscheinlichkeit für eine dauerhafte Leistungskraft des Betriebs, was wiederum Voraussetzung dafür ist, dass Besch?ftigte im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit individuelle Kompetenz entwickeln und anwenden k?nnen. Die Tragweite dieses Ansatzes besteht darin, dass eine Operationalisierung von Konvergenzbedingungen über neuere Theorien aus der Lehr-Lern-Forschung m?glich wird.     

Kompetenzmodellierung: Struktur,Konzepte und Forschungszugänge des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms

The assessment and modeling of competencies plays a key role in optimizing educational processes and improving educational systems. The DFG priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes” which was founded in 2007, aims at promoting and coordinating the scientific efforts in this field across disciplines. The present article describes the structure, concepts and research approaches and sketches the current state of research of the priority program.     

Stichwort: Bildungsökonomie und Qualität der Schulbildung

Keyword: Education Economics and Quality of Schooling. With reference to an earlier keyword article from the same author, this contribution looks at recent developments in education economics. The focus is a critical review of the field‘s contribution to research on the necessary conditions for high quality schooling. Of particular interest at the moment are the institutional framework conditions in a school system, which set incentives for performance. These are judged to be better than resource-based strategies of quality assurance. The empirical basis is provided by estimates of production functions using data from international school performance studies. This article will point out the limited validity of evidence gained through these studies and the – in sum – contradictory empirical findings. For this reason, political recommendations on the basis of this approach should be more reserved.     

Zwischen Schule und Universität: Argumentation in der Mathematik

Several studies show that university students in Germany still have problems in reasoning mathematically although this already should be fostered at high school since the implementation of standards for school mathematics. Mathematical argumentation is a core competence and highly important, especially in academic mathematics. To foster mathematical argumentation at the beginning of university studies, competence models are needed which give more detailed insights in the skills that are necessary for reasoning. As mathematical argumentation is a complex process, especially at the higher secondary level or at university, many little steps are needed to complete a competence model for argumentation at the secondary–tertiary transition gradually. A possible step can be to initially identify several aspects of mathematical argumentation competence that influence the reasoning quality. The empirical basis for identifying those aspects is a cross-sectional study with 439 engineering students who participate in a transition course in mathematics. We address the following questions: (1) how is the quality of student’s reasoning? (2) Which kind of arguments do students use? (3) What resources do students who reasoned correctly use for solving the problems? (4) Does the content of the tasks play an important role? The results show a great influence of the content on the reasoning quality, especially if the content is abstract or concrete. Argumentation quality of students decreases with an increasing level of abstraction of the content. Furthermore, the results reveal that students often use routines for solving the problems. That indicates that procedural approaches still play an important role in school mathematics. If procedures could be used for solving the tasks, students are more successful. Competence models for mathematical argumentation at the beginning of the tertiary level should, therefore, include these factors.     

Die PISA-Studien: Ihre Präsentation und Interpretation im Lichte der Evidenzbasierung

This paper investigates the presentation and interpretation of PISA results by educational researchers, whereby the topics Development of student performance in international comparison, Social background and competence acquisition, Acquisition of competencies of students with a migration background and Identification of a risk group were selected for analysis. The findings indicate that the presentation and interpretation of PISA results by educational researchers do not provide a solid basis for evidence-based educational policy: the researchers present different and partially contradictory interpretations, as well as various and partial incompatible recommendations. Moreover, particular results are not robust, and concerning some research areas the embedding into competing findings is not offered. In view of this analysis, the paper closes with a skeptical appraisal regarding the concept of evidence-based educational policy.     

Diskurs und Sexualpädagogik: Der deutschsprachige Onanie‐Diskurs des späten 18. Jahrhunderts

This article treats the conflict‐laden relation of discourse analysis and the history of sexuality on various levels: at first it is shown how discourse analysis has become relevant for the history of sexuality in the wake of the transformation Foucault initiated. Continuing this discussion, the author outlines the theoretical connection between discourse and sexual experience. He thereby relies on Norman Fairclough's “text‐oriented discourse analysis”, a method that marries linguistic analysis and social theory, and thus facilitates research into the interactive kind of “sexuality”. The author deals with the linguistic, discursive and social practices of the German‐language pedagogical onanism discourse of the late eighteenth century along its respective dimensions. The texts of the late eighteenth century were more strongly oriented towards pedagogy and medicine compared with the religious–transcendental direction of the seventeenth century. Autobiographically infused texts on onanism served to demonstrate “real” case and life histories of onanists. Since the onanist was considered to be completely determined by his disease, one of the first “sexual subjects” emerged. Letters of consultation show that to some extent the consumers frequently adopted the existing model of onanism, but they also produced interpretations of their own. Precisely, those texts by onanists make evident that neither the concept of a passive registration of sexual discourses nor that of a one‐way communication can do justice to social reality. On the contrary, interplay between professionals and consumers developed. The “performance” of the texts could only succeed because scholars and onanists shared a common sociocultural “body” and could, therefore, understand, accept and sense within themselves the importance and meaning of onanism. The German‐language onanism discourse was part of the educationalist discussion throughout Europe in the eighteenth century, and yielded to the professional interests of a discipline on the cusp of becoming established.     

Stichwort: Entwicklung sprachlicher Fähigkeiten von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Bildungskontext

This article contains a review of recent research on the topic of language development in an educational research perspective. The contribution is focussed on research which was carried out in the German education system. The starting point of such research was the insight that mastery of a language is of core importance for educational success as well as for participation in a society. The research which is presented in this review article strives to identify factors that are relevant for the development of different language abilities during an education biography. The article starts with an overview of international and national research traditions which build the ground for the investigation of language development in an educational research perspective. A second part of the article deals with research projects that aimed to unveil factors which are influential for differential language development during a school career. In the third part of the article, an outlook on recent research is presented which deals with the question how language development can be fostered and supported by educational institutions. In Germany, such projects are just beginning. They mainly derive from the evaluation of model projects or other practical experiments; only very few experimental intervention studies have been carried out.