Freya Winterle MA

Professional Support of Low-Performing Students - Supplementary Study Austria to the IMPULSE Study Germany (PULS:E)

supervision: Nele Kampa
period: 2020-2024
contact: freya.winterle@univie.ac.at

The research project is affiliated with the project Intervention in Mathematics for Professional Support of Low-Performing Students (IMPULSE). IMPULSE investigates the potential of different approaches to support low-performing students at the sensitive point of transition to secondary school in mathematics. In PULS:E, the specific topic of teachers' self-efficacy in dealing with low-performing students as well as the teaching perceptions of these students will be examined. Prominent heterogeneity categories such as socioeconomic background, migration, and gender will be included in the analysis. Furthermore, the cooperation project extends the German research project to Austria. The aim of the project is to generate differentiated results on the determinants of teaching related to low-performing students, also in the context of teacher professionalization.

The cooperation will use (a) data from the German project on student teachers' self-efficacy and (b) data from an Austrian survey on student teachers' self-efficacy. In addition, secondary analyses will be conducted using data from the Institute of the Federation for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS) on student teachers' perceptions of teaching. The Austrian study will be conducted at three sites in Austria and will include approximately 200 student teachers. Online questionnaires will be used for the survey, which will be analyzed with quantitative methods in a second step. The research design will offer the possibility to make comparisons between Germany and Austria. Finally, the impact of an intervention on the self-efficacy of the student teachers implementing the intervention will be examined (using the German data).