Diagnostic skills in simulation-based learning environments
In various sub-projects, COSIMA analyses how simulation-based learning environments can deployed to promote the diagnostic competence of teachers in training. A meta-analysis summarises and classifies recent findings. Based on this COSIMA develops possible specifications for the use of simulation-based learning environments.
Overview
Duration: 2020 – 2023 Funding: DFG Research Group „Förderung von Diagnosekompetenzen in simulationsbasierten Lernumgebungen in der Hochschule“ Subsidy: 217 050 Euro Principal Investigators (Teilprojekt M): Prof. Frank Fischer, Prof. Tina Seidel, Prof. Doris Holzberger, Dr. Matthias Stadler
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Promotion of diagnostic skills in simulation-based learning environments
Teachers' diagnostic competence, i.e. the ability to assess their students' learning prerequisites such as motivation, interest or cognitive abilities, plays an important role in the successful planning of lessons, as it allows a targeted and individual approach to students within a class. In order to train the diagnostic competence of teachers, simulation-based learning environments, i.e. simplified, digitally simulated worlds, which consciously confront the prospective teachers with certain situations in the classroom already in the course of their training at the university, can be used.
This is where the interdisciplinary research group COSIMA comes in. In various sub-projects, it analyses how such simulation-based learning environments are best designed and used to promote the diagnostic competence of teachers in training.
In sub-project M of COSIMA, we use the method of meta-analysis, which not only enables us to gain an overview of previous research on the topic, but also to consider and classify the results of all sub-projects of COSIMA in their entirety. In the second funding phase of the project, the focus is on the effects of so-called scaffolding, i.e. supporting the learning process through guidance or assistance.
Overall, the interdisciplinary team of COSIMA is working to develop specifications for simulation-based learning environments that will benefit future teachers in training their diagnostic competence.
Further information on the project can be found here.
