Manuel Förster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6207788 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Manuel Förster |
| PRENOMES | Manuel |
| SOBRENOME | Förster |
| ASSINATURA | FORSTER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8125-4595 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
How to foster interdisciplinary project management efficacy beliefs in Challenge-based Learning? The role of attitudes and student engagement
Collaboration in interdisciplinary projects is essential for working on complex societal challenges. Challenge-based Learning (CBL) enables interdisciplinary learning and aims to prepare learners to tackle societal challenges in interdisciplinary teams. Student engagement in CBL can contribute to the development of relevant self-efficacy beliefs in interdisciplinary project management by targeting sources of self-efficacy in the instructional des…
The Effects of an Entrepreneurial Project on the Career-Choice Readiness, Metacognition, and Growth Mindset of Secondary Students
The present study evaluated the effect of a four-day entrepreneurial project on the career-choice readiness of secondary school students. The hypotheses underlying this study state that participation in a school startup project increases the students’ career-choice readiness, growth mindset, and metacognition. Based on the literature, it is also assumed that a positive correlation exists between metacognition, growth mindset, and career-choice re…
Pre-class video watching fosters achievement and knowledge retention in a flipped classroom
Validity and fairness of a new entry diagnostics test in higher education economics
Gender gap in Swiss vocational education and training teachers’ economics content knowledge and the role of teaching experience
In the commercial sector, which is of crucial importance to the Swiss economy among other countries, a large number of apprentices are trained on a vocational education and training programme every year. Besides other subjects, the subject Economics and Society forms an integral part of the vocational education and training curriculum and serves to prepare apprentices for professional, economic and civic participation. Although content knowledge …
The relationship among gender, interest in economic topics, media use, and the economic knowledge of students at vocational schools
The results of numerous studies indicate that male students achieve better results on economic knowledge tests than their female classmates. Although this phenomenon has been known for a long time, the gender-specific mechanisms of this gap have not been explored in depth. According to social and educational scientific theories and the current state of research, interest and media use could be related to gender. In this study, we administered a G…
Gender-specific differences in economic competence
Strukturanalyse eines kognitiven Messinstruments im Multiple Choice-Format
Despite considerable progress in the development of computer-based, simulative, and adaptive assessment tools, traditional paper-pencil performance tests are predominantly used in education research and practice. On closer examination, however, the internal structure of these tests reveals aspects that remain unnoticed if only standard testing parameters, usually determined in pilot studies, are considered for the assessment. We use the German ve…
Young adults’ knowledge and understanding of personal finance in Germany
In recent years, the financial education of young adults has gained importance in Germany; however, very few valid test instruments to assess the knowledge and understanding of personal finance are suitable for use in Germany. In this article, we describe results of a survey in which experts in Germany in areas related to personal finance judged the relevance of the items of the American Council of Economic Education’s Test of Financial Literacy …
Macroeconomic knowledge of higher education students in Germany and Japan – a multilevel analysis of contextual and personal effects
Recent trends towards harmonising and internationalising business and economics studies in higher education are affecting the structure and content of programmes and courses, and necessitate more transparent and comparable information on students’ economic knowledge and skills. In this study, we examine by linear multilevel regression modelling the current state of macroeconomic knowledge of higher education students in Germany and Japan, while c…
Assessing the previous economic knowledge of beginning students in Germany
Study-related prior knowledge plays a decisive role in business and economics degree courses. Prior knowledge has a significant influence on knowledge acquisition in higher education, and teachers need information on it to plan their introductory courses accordingly. Very few studies have been conducted of first-year students’ prior economic knowledge or differences among students in such knowledge. In this article, the prior economic knowledge a…
Trust and manipulation in social networks
We investigate the role of manipulation in boundedly rational opinion dynamics. Agents are subject to persuasion bias and repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in a social network. They can exert effort to manipulate trust in the opinions of others in their favor and update their opinions about some issue of common interest by taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. We show that manipulation can connect a segregated society and thu…
Effects of prior economic education, native language, and gender on economic knowledge of first-year students in higher education. A comparative study between Germany and the USA
The assessment of university students’ economic knowledge has become an increasingly important research area within and across countries. Particularly, the different influences of prior education, native language, and gender as some of the main prerequisites on students’ economic knowledge have been highlighted since long. However, the findings are often only available within countries and focus on students who are at different levels of their st…
Gender Effects in Assessment of Economic Knowledge and Understanding
Gender effects in large-scale assessments have become an increasingly important research area within and across countries. Yet few studies have linked differences in assessment results of male and female students in higher education to construct-relevant features of the target construct. This paper examines gender effects on students’ economic content knowledge with a focus on construct-relevant explanations. Moreover, we compare gender effects c…
Anonymous social influence
Trust and manipulation in social networks
We investigate the role of manipulation in boundedly rational opinion dynamics. Agents are subject to persuasion bias and repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in a social network. They can exert effort to manipulate trust in the opinions of others in their favor and update their opinions about some issue of common interest by taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. We show that manipulation can connect a segregated society and thu…
The relationship among gender, interest in economic topics, media use, and the economic knowledge of students at vocational schools
The results of numerous studies indicate that male students achieve better results on economic knowledge tests than their female classmates. Although this phenomenon has been known for a long time, the gender-specific mechanisms of this gap have not been explored in depth. According to social and educational scientific theories and the current state of research, interest and media use could be related to gender. In this study, we administered a G…
Assessing the previous economic knowledge of beginning students in Germany
Study-related prior knowledge plays a decisive role in business and economics degree courses. Prior knowledge has a significant influence on knowledge acquisition in higher education, and teachers need information on it to plan their introductory courses accordingly. Very few studies have been conducted of first-year students’ prior economic knowledge or differences among students in such knowledge. In this article, the prior economic knowledge a…
Gender gap in Swiss vocational education and training teachers’ economics content knowledge and the role of teaching experience
In the commercial sector, which is of crucial importance to the Swiss economy among other countries, a large number of apprentices are trained on a vocational education and training programme every year. Besides other subjects, the subject Economics and Society forms an integral part of the vocational education and training curriculum and serves to prepare apprentices for professional, economic and civic participation. Although content knowledge …
Young adults’ knowledge and understanding of personal finance in Germany
In recent years, the financial education of young adults has gained importance in Germany; however, very few valid test instruments to assess the knowledge and understanding of personal finance are suitable for use in Germany. In this article, we describe results of a survey in which experts in Germany in areas related to personal finance judged the relevance of the items of the American Council of Economic Education’s Test of Financial Literacy …
Anonymous social influence
Effects of prior economic education, native language, and gender on economic knowledge of first-year students in higher education. A comparative study between Germany and the USA
The assessment of university students’ economic knowledge has become an increasingly important research area within and across countries. Particularly, the different influences of prior education, native language, and gender as some of the main prerequisites on students’ economic knowledge have been highlighted since long. However, the findings are often only available within countries and focus on students who are at different levels of their st…
Gender Effects in Assessment of Economic Knowledge and Understanding
Gender effects in large-scale assessments have become an increasingly important research area within and across countries. Yet few studies have linked differences in assessment results of male and female students in higher education to construct-relevant features of the target construct. This paper examines gender effects on students’ economic content knowledge with a focus on construct-relevant explanations. Moreover, we compare gender effects c…
Macroeconomic knowledge of higher education students in Germany and Japan – a multilevel analysis of contextual and personal effects
Recent trends towards harmonising and internationalising business and economics studies in higher education are affecting the structure and content of programmes and courses, and necessitate more transparent and comparable information on students’ economic knowledge and skills. In this study, we examine by linear multilevel regression modelling the current state of macroeconomic knowledge of higher education students in Germany and Japan, while c…
Assessing the previous economic knowledge of beginning students in Germany
Study-related prior knowledge plays a decisive role in business and economics degree courses. Prior knowledge has a significant influence on knowledge acquisition in higher education, and teachers need information on it to plan their introductory courses accordingly. Very few studies have been conducted of first-year students’ prior economic knowledge or differences among students in such knowledge. In this article, the prior economic knowledge a…
Trust and manipulation in social networks
We investigate the role of manipulation in boundedly rational opinion dynamics. Agents are subject to persuasion bias and repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in a social network. They can exert effort to manipulate trust in the opinions of others in their favor and update their opinions about some issue of common interest by taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. We show that manipulation can connect a segregated society and thu…
Strukturanalyse eines kognitiven Messinstruments im Multiple Choice-Format
Despite considerable progress in the development of computer-based, simulative, and adaptive assessment tools, traditional paper-pencil performance tests are predominantly used in education research and practice. On closer examination, however, the internal structure of these tests reveals aspects that remain unnoticed if only standard testing parameters, usually determined in pilot studies, are considered for the assessment. We use the German ve…
Young adults’ knowledge and understanding of personal finance in Germany
In recent years, the financial education of young adults has gained importance in Germany; however, very few valid test instruments to assess the knowledge and understanding of personal finance are suitable for use in Germany. In this article, we describe results of a survey in which experts in Germany in areas related to personal finance judged the relevance of the items of the American Council of Economic Education’s Test of Financial Literacy …
Gender gap in Swiss vocational education and training teachers’ economics content knowledge and the role of teaching experience
In the commercial sector, which is of crucial importance to the Swiss economy among other countries, a large number of apprentices are trained on a vocational education and training programme every year. Besides other subjects, the subject Economics and Society forms an integral part of the vocational education and training curriculum and serves to prepare apprentices for professional, economic and civic participation. Although content knowledge …
The relationship among gender, interest in economic topics, media use, and the economic knowledge of students at vocational schools
The results of numerous studies indicate that male students achieve better results on economic knowledge tests than their female classmates. Although this phenomenon has been known for a long time, the gender-specific mechanisms of this gap have not been explored in depth. According to social and educational scientific theories and the current state of research, interest and media use could be related to gender. In this study, we administered a G…
Gender-specific differences in economic competence
Validity and fairness of a new entry diagnostics test in higher education economics
Pre-class video watching fosters achievement and knowledge retention in a flipped classroom
The Effects of an Entrepreneurial Project on the Career-Choice Readiness, Metacognition, and Growth Mindset of Secondary Students
The present study evaluated the effect of a four-day entrepreneurial project on the career-choice readiness of secondary school students. The hypotheses underlying this study state that participation in a school startup project increases the students’ career-choice readiness, growth mindset, and metacognition. Based on the literature, it is also assumed that a positive correlation exists between metacognition, growth mindset, and career-choice re…
How to foster interdisciplinary project management efficacy beliefs in Challenge-based Learning? The role of attitudes and student engagement
Collaboration in interdisciplinary projects is essential for working on complex societal challenges. Challenge-based Learning (CBL) enables interdisciplinary learning and aims to prepare learners to tackle societal challenges in interdisciplinary teams. Student engagement in CBL can contribute to the development of relevant self-efficacy beliefs in interdisciplinary project management by targeting sources of self-efficacy in the instructional des…
Psychology (15 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Innovations in Educational Methods (8 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Economics education (6 obras) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras)