Development of pedagogical media competence of pre-service teachers in the context of integrating ICT in education

• Applicant: Dr. Ramona Lorenz
• Subject Area: General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
• Term: from 2018 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403107240

Integrating ICT in education successfully requires teachers who are competent in using ICT in instruction in order to support learning processes, foster students’ ICT and media literacy and promote school development processes with regard to ICT. So far, teacher education in Germany scarcely allows for a systematical development of pedagogical media competence. Evaluations of existing concepts are even rarer. With the study at hand, a pre-service teacher course is developed including theoretical, empirical and practical approaches in order to analyze how the differentiated facets of pedagogical media competence can be fostered in teacher education. The pedagogical media competence will be measured at the beginning and at the end of the course by means of an adapted and extended questionnaire. Furthermore, the pre-service teachers will be asked to maintain a portfolio in which drafts for ICT-based lessons are to be gathered. These drafts will be revised based on peer-feedback by the pre-service teachers and finally evaluated by means of a set of criteria by the course teacher. These two methodological approaches will be complemented by interviews conducted with small groups of pre-service teachers at the end of the course. Thus, the study shall reveal important insights and evidence with regard to the development of pedagogical media competence and serve as a basis for the linked integration of this domain in subject didactics and the second phase of teacher education.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants