Effektivität der Qualifizierung von Teach First Fellows. Abschlussbericht zur summativen Evaluation der Sommerakademie von Teach First Deutschland

Teach First Fellows nehmen wie Lehrkräfte eine hohe Verantwortung für die weitere Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen wahr. Anders als Lehrkräfte verfügen sie jedoch nicht über eine grundständige Ausbildung für ihre spezifische Tätigkeit. Deshalb stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern es gelingen kann, durch eine sorgfältige Auswahl der Fellows, sowie durch eine intensive Kurzqualifizierung gute Voraussetzungen für den Erfolg ihrer Tätigkeit zu schaffen. Die vorliegende Studie evaluiert die Ergebnisse des Qualifizierungsprogramms, das Teach First Deutschland für seine Fellows entwickelt und implementiert hat. Dabei interessiert insbesondere, welches Wissen zur Unterstützung von Lernprozessen, welche Fähigkeiten zur Gestaltung von Unterricht und welche Erwartung von pädagogischer Wirksamkeit innerhalb eines halben Jahres bei den Fellows aufgebaut werden können. Um ein tieferes Verständnis der Wirkweise des Qualifizierungsprogramms zu ermöglichen, wurden neben den Ergebnissen auch dessen Prozesskomponenten einer Bewertung unterzogen. (DIPF/Orig.)

Perceived learning environments and metacognitive strategy knowledge at the upper secondary school level

There is evidence that students benefit from teachers’ explicit fostering of metacognitive strategy knowledge (MSK). However, there is insufficient understanding about the effect of implicit promotion of MSK in regular school instruction. This study investigates the relationship between perceived characteristics of learning environments (social climate, support, autonomy, self-reflection) and students’ MSK. A representative cohort of students (Nt1 = 1,272/Nt2 = 1,126) in Grades 10 and 11 at schools at the upper secondary education level (ISCED Level 3A) in Switzerland participated in this two-wave longitudinal study. Multilevel analysis showed effects on both the individual and the class level. Students who experienced higher social integration showed a higher extent of MSK at the beginning of the school year than students who experienced less social integration. Perceived autonomy was also positively related to students’ MSK on the individual level. In contrast, the results showed a negative relationship between perceived self-reflection and students’ MSK. On the class level, there was a negative relationship between self-reflection and students’ MSK. Teachers’ support did not correlate with students’ MSK on either the individual or the class level. Implications of these results for education and further studies are discussed. (DIPF/Orig.)

Teaching by chat

This paper discusses some didactical aspects of chat usage for instructional purposes. Areas covered range from the choice of course type and student group for using chats, to the preparation and moderation of chats, and discussing how to manage both troublemaking students and systems. In February 1998 I was the chair of a committee at my previous university that was authoring a recommendation list about the Internet to the president of the school. One of our recommendations was to eliminate the IRC server (Internet Relay Chat), since it was only causing traffic and was just being used for games. We stated that we could not envision a use for chatting either for research or for instructional purposes. Five years later here I am: teaching 4 of my 5 courses by way of chat. There has been an enormous growth in the use of chat-based instruction, but also quite a lot of problems encountered. Much of the available literature addresses technical problems, or discusses chats from an educational psychology perspective. This paper will address ten of the didactical issues in chat-based instruction, summarizing the experiences that I have made in many years of chat experience (DIPF/Orig.)