Content analysis of an object sorting test of cognitive complexity

Christiane Spiel; Günther Böhm; Alexander von Eye

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 31, No. 8 (1999) pp. 687–698

Cognitive complexity, defined by the number and the characteristics of dimensions that individuals use when cognitively structuring their world, is often assessed using a paper-pencil version of Scott's [(1962). Sociometry, 25, 405–414] Object...

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Recollection of early gender-specific situations: a cultural comparison between the USA and Austria

Christiane Spiel; Barbara Löschnig; Joachim Krueger

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 31, No. 8 (1999) pp. 673–686

Cultural differences in autobiographical memories of early gender-related situations were investigated. Sixty female and 60 male university students (half from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and half from the Karl-Franzens...

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Time students spend working at home for school

Petra Wagner; Barbara Schober; Christiane Spiel

Learning and Instruction Vol. 18, No. 4 (August 2008) pp. 309–320

The paper presents three studies which deal with the time students spend working at home for school. In addition, the paper focuses on the distribution of time investment over the course of a week and on the relationship between academic achievement ...

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Assessment at school – Teachers' diary-supported implementation of a training program

Julia Klug; Marie-Therese Schultes; Christiane Spiel

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 76, No. 1 (November 2018) pp. 298–308

Forty-seven secondary school teachers participated in a four-week training program on assessment strategies. A subgroup of 15 teachers documented their implementation of the training content and rated their reflective practice in standardized...

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Evaluation of E-Learning in Higher Education from 1997 to 2007: A Review

Birgit Zens; Eva Giefing-Meisinger; Christiane Spiel

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2686–2692

The number of studies concerned with evaluating e-learning activities has been growing in recent years. Numerous studies from all continents focus on the evaluation of e-learning activities. These evaluation studies are highly heterogeneous and...

Topics: Learning Objects, Evaluation

How do teachers promote their students' lifelong learning in class? Development and first application of the LLL Interview

Julia Klug; Noreen Krause; Barbara Schober; Monika Finsterwald; Christiane Spiel

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 119–129

Lifelong learning's (LLL) cornerstones are laid at school. Especially teachers' behaviour is central. As of yet, there is no instrument to measure teachers' efforts in promoting aspects associated with LLL within their students. We present a new...

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Benefits of the Person-Oriented Perspective for Program Evaluation: Analyzing the Differential Treatment Effects of the Vienna E-Lecturing Program

Dominik Lapka; Petra Wagner; Barbara Schober; Petra Gradinger; Christiane Spiel

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation Vol. 7, No. 16 (July 2011) pp. 65–83

Background: In program evaluation interventions are usually examined for global effects but not always for differential effects. The reasoning behind the focus on global effects is that most of the concepts applied in data analyses, and most of the...

A citizen science approach to measuring students’ achievement goals

Marko Lüftenegger; Lisa Bardach; Evelyn Bergsmann; Barbara Schober; Christiane Spiel

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 95, No. 1 (2019) pp. 36–51

The concept of citizen science in scientific research brings researchers and laypersons together to work on research projects. Using an achievement goal theory framework, the present study employs a citizen science approach in which researchers and...

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Fostering lifelong learning – Evaluation of a teacher education program for professional teachers

Monika Finsterwald; Petra Wagner; Barbara Schober; Marko Lüftenegger; Christiane Spiel

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 29, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 144–155

Modern economics has placed lifelong learning (LLL) at the center of an intensive ongoing political debate. Evidenced-based interventions are needed, not only in continuing education courses for teachers, but also in schools. This paper introduces...

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Vienna E-Lecturing (VEL): Learning How to Learn Self-Regulated in an Internet-Based Blended Learning Setting

Barbara Schober; Petra Wagner; Ralph Reimann; Christiane Spiel

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 7, No. 4 (October 2008) pp. 703–723

The article describes the "Vienna E-Lecturing" (VEL), a complex internet-based blended-learning setting developed for students at the University of Vienna (Austria). As part of the introduction to research methods in psychology, VEL aids in...

Topics: Students, Training, Instructional Design, eLearning, Internet, Teaching Methods

Diagnostic competence of teachers: A process model that accounts for diagnosing learning behavior tested by means of a case scenario

Julia Klug; Simone Bruder; Augustin Kelava; Christiane Spiel; Bernhard Schmitz

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 30, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 38–46

Diagnosing learning behavior is one of teachers' most central tasks. So far, accuracy in teachers' judgments on students' achievement has been investigated. In this study, a new perspective is taken by developing and testing a three-dimensional...

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Achievement or agreement – Which comes first? Clarifying the temporal ordering of achievement and within-class consensus on classroom goal structures

Lisa Bardach; Marko Lüftenegger; Takuya Yanagida; Christiane Spiel; Barbara Schober

Learning and Instruction Vol. 61, No. 1 (June 2019) pp. 72–83

Within-class consensus describes the extent to which students agree in their perceptions of classroom characteristics. The most frequently studied external link in research on within-class consensus is achievement. However, the direction of effects...

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Peer Mentoring Styles and Their Contribution to Academic Success among Mentees: A Person-Oriented Study in Higher Education

Birgit Leidenfrost; Barbara Strassnig; Alfred Schabmann; Christiane Spiel; Claus-Christian Carbon

Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 19, No. 3 (2011) pp. 347–364

The purpose of our study was to explore peer mentoring styles and examine their contribution to academic success among mentees. Data were collected as part of a comprehensive evaluation of a peer mentoring program. The sample consisted of 49 mentors ...

Lifelong learning as a goal – Do autonomy and self-regulation in school result in well prepared pupils?

Marko Lüftenegger; Barbara Schober; Rens van de Schoot; Petra Wagner; Monika Finsterwald; Christiane Spiel

Learning and Instruction Vol. 22, No. 1 pp. 27–36

Fostering lifelong learning (LLL) is a topic of high relevance for current educational policy. School lays the cornerstone for the key components of LLL, specifically persistent motivation to learn and self-regulated learning behavior. The present...

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