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 ...

Language: English

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...

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...

Language: English

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

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...

Language: English