The effects of teacher education on professional competences, lesson quality and pupil performance (WiL)

Designed as a longitudinal study, WiL is a follow-up project of the international TEDS-M teacher education study.

The WiL project examines three areas in which teacher-training programmes are intended to have an effect: (1) the genesis of competence and professional skills in primary- and secondary-school trainee teachers and the development of these competences during the first few years in teaching, (2) the effects of professional competences on the quality of mathematics lessons, and (3) pupils’ academic progress and achievements. The project provides a sound empirical basis that is of great value to advancing teacher-training methods, improving job-induction programmes for new teachers, and refining the measurement of professional skills and competence.

Institute Institute of Research on Teaching Profession and on Development of Competencies (the focus here is on profession research)
Heads Professor Christian Brühwiler, Professor Titus Guldimann (co-management)
Team Professor Benita Affolter (operational project management), Lena Hollenstein, Anja Künzler, Nathalie Rüsch, Astrid Sperger
Duration 1 January 2013 to 28 February 2017
Financing Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Publications

  • Affolter, B., Hollenstein, L. & Brühwiler, C. (2015). Unsere zukünftigen Lehrpersonen: Idealistisch, realistisch oder selbstbewusst pragmatisch. Beiträge zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung, 33 (1), 69-91.
  • Brühwiler, C., Ramseier, E. & Steinmann, S. (2015). Vorbildung oder Ausbildung? Zum Erwerb mathematischen und mathematikdidaktischen Wissens in der Lehrerausbildung. Beiträge zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung, 33 (1), S. 22-45.
  • Affolter, B., Hollenstein, L. & Brühwiler, C. (2016). Entwicklung und Wirkung professioneller Kompetenz von Lehrpersonen. Journal für LehrerInnenbildung, S. 28-34
  • Affolter, B., Hollenstein, L. Brühwiler, C. & Biedermann, H. (2016). Misslingen als Lernchance. Der Einfluss kritischer Unterrichtssituationen auf berufsbezogene Überzeugungen von Lehrpersonen beim Berufseinstieg. In: J. Košinár, S. Leineweber, E. Schmid (Hrsg.) Professionalisierungsprozesse angehender Lehrpersonen in den berufspraktischen Studien. Münster: Waxmann, S. 99-118.

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