Charles Helm
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1232998 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles Helm |
| PRENOMES | Charles |
| SOBRENOME | Helm |
| ASSINATURA | HELM C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johannes Kepler University of Linz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5854-4500 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Empowering Preservice Biology Teachers as Designers of Pedagogical AI Agents
Artificial intelligence (AI) influences learning processes, student activities, and the organization of teaching, both in general and specifically in science education. Research indicates that the way AI will affect science learning primarily depends on how it is implemented in teaching. This study examines the ability of preservice biology teachers (PSBTs) to independently develop pedagogical AI agents (TDP-AI agents), most often in the form of …
Impact of age and prior knowledge on performance and perceived task difficulty
Perceived competence and self-efficacy are distinct but strongly interrelated constructs. • Both constructs mediate the effects of age and prior knowledge on learning outcomes. • Both constructs mediate the link between prior knowledge and performance gains. • Relationships between variables remain stable across different instructional control types. • Study underscores the importance of tailored interventions to enhance competence beliefs. The s…
Exploring teacher educators’ challenges in the context of digital transformation and their self-reported TPACK
The ongoing digital transformation requires teachers and teacher educators to re-conceptualise their roles and tasks. The purpose of the present study is to examine teacher educators’ challenges in the context of digital transformation, their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and the role of personal and contextual characteristics. To this end, this study employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design. Data wer…
The Quaternary record of vertebrate tracks and trackways
Out-of-field teaching in Austria
Out-of-field (OOF) teaching is a strategy used to address the shortage of specialist teachers, but extant studies on this phenomenon in Austrian schools are scarce. This article uses data from TALIS 2018 to examine OOF teaching in lower secondary schools in Austria, revealing significant differences in OOF teaching’s prevalence across school types. About half of teachers in lower-level non-academic secondary schools teach OOF compared with less t…
Prädiktoren der Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten in schulpraktischen Phasen
Schulpraktische Phasen sind zentrale Elemente in der Lehrer:innenbildung, wobei sich die Beziehung zwischen Studierenden und den Betreuungspersonen an der Schule sowie die individuelle Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung der Studierenden förderlich für professionellen Kompetenzerwerb erweisen. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis eines Angebots-Nutzungsmodells die Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten im Praktikum untersucht. Die Daten aus einer quantitativen Befrag…
Satisfaction and general well-being of Austrian student teachers who enter the teaching profession while still studying
The teacher shortage is an increasingly urgent challenge for the Austrian education system. Consequently, the Austrian government recruits student teachers who are still in bachelor’s or master’s programmes to fill open positions. This empirical study examined the demands and resources that student teachers experience in their jobs and studies. Based on the job demands-resources model, we investigated the health effects and motivation impacting s…
Welche Rolle spielen lehr-lern-theoretische Überzeugungen von Schulleitungen und Lehrpersonen für die Unterrichtsqualität
Lehr-lern-theoretischen Überzeugungen von pädagogischen Professionellen wird für die Gestaltung von Unterricht und die Lernentwicklung von Schüler*innen eine hohe Bedeutung zugesprochen. Auch dem Handeln der für die Steuerung innerschulischer Unterrichtsentwicklung verantwortlichen Führungskräfte liegen Vorstellungen von lernförderlichem Unterricht zugrunde. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht erstmals anhand einer repräsentativen Studie im Primar…
German-language adaptation and validation of the self-perceived action competence for sustainability questionnaire (SPACS-Q)
The urgency of addressing the climate crisis makes it clear how important educational practice and research are in relation to sustainable development. Implementing this requires the use of established and validated research instruments. Hence, in this study, the Self-Perceived Action Competence for Sustainability Questionnaire (SPACS-Q) – which was developed and validated by Olsson et al. (Citation2020) for the Swedish context – was translated i…
Zur Bedeutung von Feedback für das Belastungserleben von Schüler
Konstruktives Lehrkräftefeedback erweist sich im Präsenzunterricht als förderlich für das Wohlbefinden der Lernenden. Auch für den Distanzunterricht während der COVID-Pandemie wird es als bedeutende psychologische Ressource zur Reduktion des Belastungserlebens vermutet. Feedback, das Schüler:innen an Lehrkräfte richten, hat ebenfalls Potenzial belastungsreduzierend zu wirken, wurde bislang im Distanzunterricht jedoch nicht erforscht. Um der Zunah…
Team teachers' lesson-specific emotions and perceived instructional quality-Results of a diary study
BackgroundTeam teaching is a common practice in many schools. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how teachers' positive and negative affect triggered by their team-teaching partners is related to the (perceived) instructional quality.AimTherefore, our goal was to investigate how positive and negative affect correlates with relevant indicators of instructional quality at a situational (i.e., lesson-specific) level and whether spillo…
The Sense of Security and Comfort in Education—Development, Validation, and Interpretation of a New Questionnaire
The purpose of this study was to measure the sense of security and comfort (SSC) as a latent construct in compulsory education. Taking theoretical considerations into account, a questionnaire for primary and secondary schools was developed in several pre-studies and then empirically tested. The sample consisted of 1462 students from 17 schools and 87 classes (n = 1376) in Austria. For the validation, the structural equation modeling (SEM) approac…
The Role of the Arts in the Classroom
Positive social relationships between pupils are crucial for creating a conducive learning environment. Integrating the arts into classrooms fosters these relationships by promoting creative expression and social skills such as empathy, mutual support, and teamwork. Arts-based activities encourage collaboration, enabling pupils to develop creative solutions and appreciate diverse perspectives. Despite growing interest in this interdisciplinary ap…
A Purported Pleistocene Sand Sculpture From South Africa
A purported cemented sand sculpture found in Pleistocene aeolianite deposits on the Cape south coast of South Africa resembles a stingray (minus a tail) in outline. Symmetry is evident in the rock’s shape and the pattern of grooves on its surface. It is postulated that it may be a three-dimensional example of representational art of another species. Optically stimulated luminescence studies of rocks in the vicinity indicate that it dates to the M…
Do pupils at research-informed schools actually perform better? Findings from a study at English schools
Introduction Across the globe, many national, state, and district level governments are increasingly seeking to bring about school “self improvement” via the fostering of change, which, at best, is based on or informed by research, evidence, and data. According to the conceptualization of research-informed education as inquiry cycle, it is reasoned that there is value in combining the approaches of data-based decision-making and evidence-informed…
Exploring Factors Affecting Elementary School Teachers’ Adoption of 3D Printers In Teaching
Owing to its advantages such as producing durable models and easy accessibility, 3D modeling and printing (3DMP) has become increasingly popular in educational practice and research. However, the results of many studies have shown that the adoption rate of 3DMP among teachers is still low, especially in elementary schools. Therefore, research is needed to expand current knowledge about what influences teachers' decisions to start and continue usi…
Predictors of Central Student Learning Outcomes in Times of Covid-19
School closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic very quickly led to many studies on distance education. Currently, there are only studies available that explored the importance of different features of distance education for student learning during school lockdowns in 2020 relying on a single perspective—student, parent, or teacher data. Thus, we present results from a multiple informant study in which we compared prediction models based on…
Are Social and Ethnic Reading Inequalities Increasing During School Closures?—The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement in Distance Learning
From spring 2020 many countries throughout Europe and beyond temporarily closed schools to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. First studies indicate that these school closures resulted in lower learning gains compared to learning gains in preceding years and widened social and ethnic disparities by affecting disadvantaged students more strongly than their more advantaged peers. Moreover, during school closures, parental involvement in distance…
Was wissen wir über schulische Lehr-Lern-Prozesse im Distanzunterricht während der Corona-Pandemie? – Evidenz aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Der Review gibt einen systematischen Überblick über den quantitativen Forschungsstand zur Schulsituation und zum Lehren und Lernen während der Corona-Pandemie. Der Review umfasst 97 Online-Befragungen, die in der Zeit vom 24. März 2020 bis 11. November 2020 durchgeführt wurden und 255.955 Fälle (Schüler*innen, Eltern, Lehrkräfte, Schulleitungen u. a.) erfassten. Die Analyse und Synthese der Befunde erfolgt entlang zweier Modelle, dem Phasenmodell…
Multilevel Analysis of Mediation, Moderation, and Nonlinear Effects in Small Samples, Using Expected a Posteriori Estimates of Factor Scores
In the analysis of hierarchical data, multilevel structural equation modeling (multilevel SEM) has become the standard in the social sciences. To estimate these models, maximum likelihood (ML) approaches have been applied because they are the default in latent variable software. However, one drawback of ML is that it tends to suffer from estimation problems such as nonconvergence when the sample size is small to moderate, and the results that com…
Covid-19 and schooling
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has far-reaching effects in the field of education, as schools were closed in March 2020 in many countries around the world. In this article, we present and discuss the School Barometer, a fast survey (in terms of reaction time, time to answer and dissemination time) that was conducted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during the early weeks of the school lockdown to assess and evaluate the current school…
On the Measurement of the Earth
“On the Measurement of the Earth” continues the tradition, which dates back to ancient Greece and the time of Eratosthenes, of works on geodesy. The title is that of the lost work of Eratosthenes on the subject. Cherishing our planet through attention to its dimensions allows us to “know our place” and enjoy the wisdom that comes from this awareness. That the Earth has an ellipsoidal, not spherical, shape is well known. While Chimborazo’s resulti…
Professional learning communities among vocational school teachers
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Obedience to Authority in a Laboratory Setting
Social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an empirical, laboratory study of obedience to authority. Milgram suggested that his study and findings have applications and implications for the diverse forms of obedience to authority in political and social life, since he had captured in the laboratory experiment the essence of obedience to authority. This article finds serious reasons for rejecting any facile generalizing from the laboratory sett…
Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment
TANLEY MILGRAM, in a series of experiments in the early sixties, has sharply focused the experimental method in psychology on a question of considerable significance:' Why do men obey authority? In a series of experiments involving hundreds of subjects, he found a disturbing number of people willing to administer what they thought were very painful shocks to an innocent victim strapped in an electric chair. Milgram reasoned, and with some force, …
Professional learning communities among vocational school teachers
Team teachers' lesson-specific emotions and perceived instructional quality-Results of a diary study
BackgroundTeam teaching is a common practice in many schools. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how teachers' positive and negative affect triggered by their team-teaching partners is related to the (perceived) instructional quality.AimTherefore, our goal was to investigate how positive and negative affect correlates with relevant indicators of instructional quality at a situational (i.e., lesson-specific) level and whether spillo…
Obedience to Authority in a Laboratory Setting
Social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an empirical, laboratory study of obedience to authority. Milgram suggested that his study and findings have applications and implications for the diverse forms of obedience to authority in political and social life, since he had captured in the laboratory experiment the essence of obedience to authority. This article finds serious reasons for rejecting any facile generalizing from the laboratory sett…
Zur Bedeutung von Feedback für das Belastungserleben von Schüler
Konstruktives Lehrkräftefeedback erweist sich im Präsenzunterricht als förderlich für das Wohlbefinden der Lernenden. Auch für den Distanzunterricht während der COVID-Pandemie wird es als bedeutende psychologische Ressource zur Reduktion des Belastungserlebens vermutet. Feedback, das Schüler:innen an Lehrkräfte richten, hat ebenfalls Potenzial belastungsreduzierend zu wirken, wurde bislang im Distanzunterricht jedoch nicht erforscht. Um der Zunah…
Exploring Factors Affecting Elementary School Teachers’ Adoption of 3D Printers In Teaching
Owing to its advantages such as producing durable models and easy accessibility, 3D modeling and printing (3DMP) has become increasingly popular in educational practice and research. However, the results of many studies have shown that the adoption rate of 3DMP among teachers is still low, especially in elementary schools. Therefore, research is needed to expand current knowledge about what influences teachers' decisions to start and continue usi…
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
The German Concept of Order The Social and Physical Setting
Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment
TANLEY MILGRAM, in a series of experiments in the early sixties, has sharply focused the experimental method in psychology on a question of considerable significance:' Why do men obey authority? In a series of experiments involving hundreds of subjects, he found a disturbing number of people willing to administer what they thought were very painful shocks to an innocent victim strapped in an electric chair. Milgram reasoned, and with some force, …
Obedience to Authority in a Laboratory Setting
Social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an empirical, laboratory study of obedience to authority. Milgram suggested that his study and findings have applications and implications for the diverse forms of obedience to authority in political and social life, since he had captured in the laboratory experiment the essence of obedience to authority. This article finds serious reasons for rejecting any facile generalizing from the laboratory sett…
Ps
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Professional learning communities among vocational school teachers
On the Measurement of the Earth
“On the Measurement of the Earth” continues the tradition, which dates back to ancient Greece and the time of Eratosthenes, of works on geodesy. The title is that of the lost work of Eratosthenes on the subject. Cherishing our planet through attention to its dimensions allows us to “know our place” and enjoy the wisdom that comes from this awareness. That the Earth has an ellipsoidal, not spherical, shape is well known. While Chimborazo’s resulti…
Covid-19 and schooling
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has far-reaching effects in the field of education, as schools were closed in March 2020 in many countries around the world. In this article, we present and discuss the School Barometer, a fast survey (in terms of reaction time, time to answer and dissemination time) that was conducted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland during the early weeks of the school lockdown to assess and evaluate the current school…
Are Social and Ethnic Reading Inequalities Increasing During School Closures?—The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement in Distance Learning
From spring 2020 many countries throughout Europe and beyond temporarily closed schools to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. First studies indicate that these school closures resulted in lower learning gains compared to learning gains in preceding years and widened social and ethnic disparities by affecting disadvantaged students more strongly than their more advantaged peers. Moreover, during school closures, parental involvement in distance…
Was wissen wir über schulische Lehr-Lern-Prozesse im Distanzunterricht während der Corona-Pandemie? – Evidenz aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Der Review gibt einen systematischen Überblick über den quantitativen Forschungsstand zur Schulsituation und zum Lehren und Lernen während der Corona-Pandemie. Der Review umfasst 97 Online-Befragungen, die in der Zeit vom 24. März 2020 bis 11. November 2020 durchgeführt wurden und 255.955 Fälle (Schüler*innen, Eltern, Lehrkräfte, Schulleitungen u. a.) erfassten. Die Analyse und Synthese der Befunde erfolgt entlang zweier Modelle, dem Phasenmodell…
Multilevel Analysis of Mediation, Moderation, and Nonlinear Effects in Small Samples, Using Expected a Posteriori Estimates of Factor Scores
In the analysis of hierarchical data, multilevel structural equation modeling (multilevel SEM) has become the standard in the social sciences. To estimate these models, maximum likelihood (ML) approaches have been applied because they are the default in latent variable software. However, one drawback of ML is that it tends to suffer from estimation problems such as nonconvergence when the sample size is small to moderate, and the results that com…
Predictors of Central Student Learning Outcomes in Times of Covid-19
School closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic very quickly led to many studies on distance education. Currently, there are only studies available that explored the importance of different features of distance education for student learning during school lockdowns in 2020 relying on a single perspective—student, parent, or teacher data. Thus, we present results from a multiple informant study in which we compared prediction models based on…
Do pupils at research-informed schools actually perform better? Findings from a study at English schools
Introduction Across the globe, many national, state, and district level governments are increasingly seeking to bring about school “self improvement” via the fostering of change, which, at best, is based on or informed by research, evidence, and data. According to the conceptualization of research-informed education as inquiry cycle, it is reasoned that there is value in combining the approaches of data-based decision-making and evidence-informed…
Exploring Factors Affecting Elementary School Teachers’ Adoption of 3D Printers In Teaching
Owing to its advantages such as producing durable models and easy accessibility, 3D modeling and printing (3DMP) has become increasingly popular in educational practice and research. However, the results of many studies have shown that the adoption rate of 3DMP among teachers is still low, especially in elementary schools. Therefore, research is needed to expand current knowledge about what influences teachers' decisions to start and continue usi…
The Sense of Security and Comfort in Education—Development, Validation, and Interpretation of a New Questionnaire
The purpose of this study was to measure the sense of security and comfort (SSC) as a latent construct in compulsory education. Taking theoretical considerations into account, a questionnaire for primary and secondary schools was developed in several pre-studies and then empirically tested. The sample consisted of 1462 students from 17 schools and 87 classes (n = 1376) in Austria. For the validation, the structural equation modeling (SEM) approac…
The Role of the Arts in the Classroom
Positive social relationships between pupils are crucial for creating a conducive learning environment. Integrating the arts into classrooms fosters these relationships by promoting creative expression and social skills such as empathy, mutual support, and teamwork. Arts-based activities encourage collaboration, enabling pupils to develop creative solutions and appreciate diverse perspectives. Despite growing interest in this interdisciplinary ap…
A Purported Pleistocene Sand Sculpture From South Africa
A purported cemented sand sculpture found in Pleistocene aeolianite deposits on the Cape south coast of South Africa resembles a stingray (minus a tail) in outline. Symmetry is evident in the rock’s shape and the pattern of grooves on its surface. It is postulated that it may be a three-dimensional example of representational art of another species. Optically stimulated luminescence studies of rocks in the vicinity indicate that it dates to the M…
The Quaternary record of vertebrate tracks and trackways
Out-of-field teaching in Austria
Out-of-field (OOF) teaching is a strategy used to address the shortage of specialist teachers, but extant studies on this phenomenon in Austrian schools are scarce. This article uses data from TALIS 2018 to examine OOF teaching in lower secondary schools in Austria, revealing significant differences in OOF teaching’s prevalence across school types. About half of teachers in lower-level non-academic secondary schools teach OOF compared with less t…
Prädiktoren der Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten in schulpraktischen Phasen
Schulpraktische Phasen sind zentrale Elemente in der Lehrer:innenbildung, wobei sich die Beziehung zwischen Studierenden und den Betreuungspersonen an der Schule sowie die individuelle Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung der Studierenden förderlich für professionellen Kompetenzerwerb erweisen. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis eines Angebots-Nutzungsmodells die Nutzung von Lerngelegenheiten im Praktikum untersucht. Die Daten aus einer quantitativen Befrag…
Satisfaction and general well-being of Austrian student teachers who enter the teaching profession while still studying
The teacher shortage is an increasingly urgent challenge for the Austrian education system. Consequently, the Austrian government recruits student teachers who are still in bachelor’s or master’s programmes to fill open positions. This empirical study examined the demands and resources that student teachers experience in their jobs and studies. Based on the job demands-resources model, we investigated the health effects and motivation impacting s…
Welche Rolle spielen lehr-lern-theoretische Überzeugungen von Schulleitungen und Lehrpersonen für die Unterrichtsqualität
Lehr-lern-theoretischen Überzeugungen von pädagogischen Professionellen wird für die Gestaltung von Unterricht und die Lernentwicklung von Schüler*innen eine hohe Bedeutung zugesprochen. Auch dem Handeln der für die Steuerung innerschulischer Unterrichtsentwicklung verantwortlichen Führungskräfte liegen Vorstellungen von lernförderlichem Unterricht zugrunde. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht erstmals anhand einer repräsentativen Studie im Primar…
German-language adaptation and validation of the self-perceived action competence for sustainability questionnaire (SPACS-Q)
The urgency of addressing the climate crisis makes it clear how important educational practice and research are in relation to sustainable development. Implementing this requires the use of established and validated research instruments. Hence, in this study, the Self-Perceived Action Competence for Sustainability Questionnaire (SPACS-Q) – which was developed and validated by Olsson et al. (Citation2020) for the Swedish context – was translated i…
Zur Bedeutung von Feedback für das Belastungserleben von Schüler
Konstruktives Lehrkräftefeedback erweist sich im Präsenzunterricht als förderlich für das Wohlbefinden der Lernenden. Auch für den Distanzunterricht während der COVID-Pandemie wird es als bedeutende psychologische Ressource zur Reduktion des Belastungserlebens vermutet. Feedback, das Schüler:innen an Lehrkräfte richten, hat ebenfalls Potenzial belastungsreduzierend zu wirken, wurde bislang im Distanzunterricht jedoch nicht erforscht. Um der Zunah…
Team teachers' lesson-specific emotions and perceived instructional quality-Results of a diary study
BackgroundTeam teaching is a common practice in many schools. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how teachers' positive and negative affect triggered by their team-teaching partners is related to the (perceived) instructional quality.AimTherefore, our goal was to investigate how positive and negative affect correlates with relevant indicators of instructional quality at a situational (i.e., lesson-specific) level and whether spillo…
Empowering Preservice Biology Teachers as Designers of Pedagogical AI Agents
Artificial intelligence (AI) influences learning processes, student activities, and the organization of teaching, both in general and specifically in science education. Research indicates that the way AI will affect science learning primarily depends on how it is implemented in teaching. This study examines the ability of preservice biology teachers (PSBTs) to independently develop pedagogical AI agents (TDP-AI agents), most often in the form of …
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