No. 20 - Jörg Pukrop & Andreas Breiter: The influence of teachers' data competence on their acceptance of comparative tests and the potential of interactive feedback systems

This article deals with the feedback of results from comparative tests and examines the role that teachers’ data literacy and the graphic design of user interfaces of interactive feedback systems could play in terms of the comprehensibility of feedback and teachers’ acceptance of comparative tests comprehensibility of feedback and teachers’ acceptance of comparative tests. Due to the high complexity of the actors involved in comparative work and their communicative actions, the concept of communicative figurations by Hepp and Hasebrink (2014) is used. Comparative assessments are an instrument of educational monitoring and are based on the educational standards of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK, 2015a).

About the authors

Jörg Pukrop
Jörg Pukrop has been a PhD student in the Information Management working group in Faculty 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science) at the University of Bremen. In his dissertation project, he is researching feedback on school performance data and how its comprehensibility can be increased through feedback systems with interactive information visualizations. He completed his degree in psychology at the University of Hagen in 2014 with a focus on education, work and organization as well as health. In his Bachelor’s thesis, he examined learning strategies in relation to the use of new media by non-traditional students. The subject of his Master’s thesis was an investigation into the influence of personality traits and disease management strategies on the subjective well-being of people with rheumatic diseases. He has been working at the Red Cross Hospital Bremen since 1990 and has headed the staff unit for organizational development there since 2016, focusing on the further development of digitally supported processes, among other things.

Andreas Breiter
Andreas Breiter has been Professor of Applied Computer Science at Faculty 3 (Mathematics and Computer Science) at the University of Bremen since July 2008. He is also head of the Institute for Information Management Bremen GmbH, a non-profit research and consulting institute at the University of Bremen (www.ifib.de). From 2004 to 2008, he held a junior professorship for the research area of the same name at the University of Bremen and was previously a research assistant in the Telecommunications Research Group at the University of Bremen for four years. In 2002, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and at the Center for Children and Technology. After studying sociology, computer science and law at the J.W.-Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and at the University of Southampton, he was a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe (1995-1997). He then moved to the University of Bremen as a research assistant (1997-2000) and completed his doctorate in applied computer science on the subject of “IT management in schools”.