TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baier, Franziska
A1  - Maurer, Christina
A1  - Dignath, Charlotte Christine
A1  - Kunter, Mareike
T1  - Fostering pre-service teachers' theoretical knowledge application: studying with and without text-based cases
T2  - Instructional science
N2  - As knowledge derived from scientific theory can be helpful for teachers to reflect on their everyday teaching, universities have the challenging task of teaching this knowledge in such a way that pre-service teachers are able to apply it to their later teaching. Case-based learning has emerged as a promising method to foster pre-service teachers’ scientific knowledge application throughout university teacher education. However, surprisingly, empirical evidence for its effectiveness as compared to more traditional instructional interventions in teacher education is still inconclusive, partly being due to constraints concerning the employed comparison groups. The present quasi-experimental study (conducted in the field of classroom management) investigated the effect of studying exactly the same theoretical content with and without text-based cases on scientific knowledge application (as measured by a vignette test) in a sample of 101 pre-service teachers. Although the study found a small advantage for the case-based learning group, it demonstrated that scientific knowledge application may also be effectively fostered in a more traditional instructional course. The findings and their implications are discussed against the background of cognitive theories on inert knowledge and how to prevent it in teacher education.
KW  - Case-based learning
KW  - Inert knowledge
KW  - Theory–practice gap
KW  - Pre-service  teacher education
KW  - Classroom management
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64479
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-644799
SN  - 1573-1952
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 49
IS  - 6
SP  - 855
EP  - 876
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -