2023, Karlen, Yves, Hirt, Carmen, Jud, Johannes, Rosenthal, Amina, Eberli, Tabea

This study examines the extent to which teachers' competence aspects as self-regulated learners and agents of self-regulated learning (SRL) explain their self-reported and students' perceived promotion of metacognition. One hundred and eighty-five lower secondary school teachers participated in this study. The results reveal positive direct relationships between teachers' knowledge, self-efficacy, intrinsic interest value and the promotion of metacognition. Teachers’ own SRL skills and mindsets about SRL were indirectly related to the promotion of metacognition via their self-efficacy and intrinsic interest value. This study provides new evidence of the importance of teachers' dual competence profile for promoting metacognition.

2020-12-24, Janousch, Clarissa, Anyan, Frederick, Hjemdal, Odin, Hirt, Carmen

The Resilience Scale for Adolescents (READ) is a highly rated scale for measuring protective factors of resilience. Even though the READ has been validated in several different cultural samples, no studies have validated the READ across samples in German from Switzer-land and Germany. The purpose of this study was to explore the con-struct validity of the German READ version in two samples from two different countries and to test the measurement invariance between those two samples. The expected negative correlations between READ and HSCL-25 and the positive correlations between RSE, self-efficacy, and SWL were supported. Furthermore, the results of the measurement invari-ance demonstrated that the originally proposed five-dimensional structure is equal in the German and Swiss samples, and it can be assumed that the same construct was assessed by excluding one item.