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Many women in Germany are single parents, unemployed and without a well-founded professional qualification. How can their quality of life be improved, and at the same time, their professional integration achieved? How can they get involved in processes of empowerment? In a design-based research (DBR) project, we are evaluating and accompanying an intervention aimed at this target group, sponsored by the European Social Fund (ESF)...

Das Projekt MEMU-IN (Mehrtägige musikpädagogische Interventionen) ist ein vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördertes Verbundprojekt des Lehrstuhls für Empirische Bildungsforschung (FAU), des Lehrstuhls für Pädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt Kultur und ästhetische Bildung (FAU) und der Ho...

Alleinerziehend und ohne fundierte berufliche Qualifikation – in dieser Situation befinden sich viele Eltern in Deutschland – zumeist Mütter. Wie lässt sich deren Lebensqualität steigern und zugleich ihre berufliche Integration verbessern? Und wie können Prozesse der Selbstbefähigung („Empowerment“)...

How can practical music performance competencies and accompanying activity-related behavioral, normative, and control beliefs be diagnosed? How may beliefs and competencies be fostered by interventions featuring education in music? And how do the participants experience these interventions? Two sub-projects investigated these questions. In the sub-project at FAU, we focused on the development and implementation of a musical education intervention with the aim of fostering musical leisure activities. In field experiments, we implemented different versions to assess the impact of various design features on behavioral outcomes...

Musical activities are an important aspect of cultural participation, however, quantitative-empirical studies of determinants of musical activities in primary school age are rare. This interdisciplinary project focuses on determinants of musical activities in primary school students based on the theory of planned behavior. The project addresses effects of (a) the intrinsic value of musical activities as an aspect of attitude (“joy of playing a musical instrument”), (b) the musical affinity of parents and friends as aspects of the subjective norm and (c) the musical self-concept as the subjective perception of the own musical competencies in terms of the perceived behavioral control....

In spite of academic reforms aiming at shorter study periods, there are still students exceeding the specified course duration. Thus, it is of great interest for university managers to know where the causes for exceeding the specified course duration can be found, in order to be able to take appropriate measures. In a first sub-project, reasons for exceeding the standard period of study were identified and systematized in order to develop questionnaires for the collection of relevant causes. For this purpose, reasons for long study times emerging from the literature were systematized and categorized. As a further source for the categorization, qualitative data (N = 565) from a student survey...

To which extent do primary school children with and without a migratory background use reading and writing competencies as well as artistic-creative competencies that they have acquired in school in their leisure time? Which behavioral, normative, and control beliefs  predict the extent of leisure reading, writing and artistic-creative activities? The aim of the proposed project is a longitudinal study of these questions. Effects of beliefs, gender and socio-economic status are studied on an individual level. Features of quality of instruction are added on class level. The results of the project are meant to serve as a starting point for the development of measures to support reading, writing and artistic-creative design as leisure activity...

Today, a large number of children and adolescents show deficits in terms of motor-coordination competences. A possible reason is the lower extent of physical activities compared to former generations. Although elementary school age is probably pivotal for establishing habits related to physical activities, this has rarely been studied previously. Starting from the theory of planned behavior, suitable scales were developed and piloted. These scales have been applied in a large-scale longitudinal study on determinants and effects of physical activities in primary school children...