Institute of Methods and Methodological Principles in the Social Sciences

Contributions to Conferences

Presentations:


2022:


  • Berens, Florian (2022). What Changes Students´ Attitudes? A Qualitative Panel Study on How and Why Attitudes Toward an Introductory Statistics Course Change. International Conference on Teaching Statistics : Rosario, Argentina, September 13, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian, Findley, Kelly, & Justice, Nicola (2022). Lois Lane, Superman, and Iron Man: How Perspectives of Statistics Relate to Students’ Identities and Career Pursuits. International Conference on Teaching Statistics : Rosario, Argentina, September 12, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2022). Influence of the Design of Open-Ended Survey Questions Using Conversational Agents or Voice-Based Input on the Responses. German Consortium in Statistics Conference 2022 : Hamburg, March 28, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2022). Why Are the Motivated Successful in Our Classes: A Learning Analytics Study on the Effects of Attitudes Toward Statistics on Learning Behavior. German Consortium in Statistics Conference 2022 : Hamburg, March 28, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian (2022). Nutzung digitaler Lernverhaltensdaten in Lernforschung und Bildungssoziologie: Beispiele zur kombinierten Nutzung verschiedener Datentypen für die Sozialforschung. Spring Meeting of the Section Methods of Empirical Social Research of the German Society for Sociology: Mannheim, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, March 25, 2022.

2021:


  • Berens, Florian (2021). Learning Analytics for Research: Das Anwendungsbeispiel des Erfolgreichen Lernens in videobasierter Statistiklehre. Statistische Woche: Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen und der Österreichischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, des Verbandes Deutscher Städtestatistiker und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie: Kiel, Germany, Auf Grund der Covid-19 Pandemie online gehalten, September 14, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian (2021). Learning Analytics for Students: Studierenden Zugang zu ihren eigenen Daten geben. Statistische Woche: Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen und der Österreichischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, des Verbandes Deutscher Städtestatistiker und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie: Kiel, Germany, Auf Grund der Covid-19 Pandemie online gehalten, September 14, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian & Findley, Kelly (2021). Using mixed methods approaches in validating psychometric instruments. International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33): Nicosia, Cyprus, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, September 10, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian (2021). Flipping service learning by implementing it in research seminars on empirical methods. International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33): Nicosia, Cyprus, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, September 09, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian (2021). Statistics beliefs of freshmen in the social sciences - an evaluation of qualitative interviews. Conference of the International Group for the Psychologyof Mathematics Education: Khon Kaen, Thailand, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 20, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2021). Using Data Science to improve Statistics Teaching: Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics?. World Statistics Congress: The Hague, Netherlands, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 14, 2021.

  • Findley, Kelly & Berens, Florian (2021). Students’ Perspectives about Statistics: Developing an Instrument to Capture Beliefs about our Field. World Statistics Congress: The Hague, Netherlands, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 14, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian, Findley, Kelly & Hobert, Sebastian (2021). Students Beliefs about Statistics and their Influence on the Students´ Attitudes toward Statistics in Introductory Courses. 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Shanghai, China, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 13, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2021). Should We Use Conversational Agents and Voice-Based Input in Online Surveys?. Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research: Los Angeles, United States, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 13, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian & Findley, Kelly (2021). New Ideas for Testing a Psychometric Intrement Using Mixed Methods. Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research: Los Angeles, United States, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 12, 2021.

2020:


  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2020). Learning Analytics for Students and Lecturers: Individuelles und aggregiertes Feedback in Großveranstaltungen. Göttinger Tag der Lehre: Göttingen, Germany, December 14, 2020.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2020). Supporting the Teaching of Methods by Intelligent Digital Intermediaries. Annual Conference of the Section Methods of Political Science in the German Political Science Association: Friedrichshafen, Germany, September 04, 2020.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2020). Learning analytics as a tool to feedback lecturers. International Association on Statistics Education Roundtable Conference before the International Congress on Mathematical Education: Nanjing, China, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 11, 2020.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2020). Use of artificial tutors in large classes. Colloquial Meeting of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Champaign (IL), United States, March 04, 2020.

  • Findley, Kelly & Berens, Florian (2020). Assessing the Disciplinary Perspectives of Introductory Statistics Students. Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education: Boston (MA), United States, February 29, 2020.

  • Bauer, Sebastian, Berens, Florian, Halverscheid, Stefan, Ike, Sina, Pustelnik, Kolja, Wendland, Julia & Wilms, Matthias (2020). Modelle der analytischen Geometrie. Tagung der Kommission Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung Mathematik: Kassel, Germany, February 28, 2020.

2019:


  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2019). Fostering Students’ Motivation to Learn Daily on a Voluntary Basis – A Gamified Mobile Learning Approach for Formal Learning Settings. International Conference on Information Systems: Munich, Germany, December 17, 2019.

  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2019). Small Talk Conversations and the Long-Term Use of Chatbots in Educational Settings - Experiences from a Field Study. Conversations 2019: Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 19, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2019). Einsatz künstlicher Tutor_innen in Großveranstaltungen. Göttinger Tag der Lehre: Göttingen, Germany, November 06, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian (2019). Messung statistischer Kompetenz am Ende eines Einführungskurses in die Statistik. Statistische Woche: Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen und der Österreichischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, des Verbandes Deutscher Städtestatistiker und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie: Trier, Germany, September 10, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2019). Kontinuierliches Lernen in Einführungen in die Statistik durch intelligente Systeme unterstützen. Statistische Woche: Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen und der Österreichischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, des Verbandes Deutscher Städtestatistiker und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie: Trier, Germany, September 10, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian (2019). Statistics beliefs of advanced social science students - a qualitative evaluation of focus groups. International Association on Statistics Education Satellite Conference to the World Statistics Congress: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 14, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian (2019). Stress und Coping im Vergleich von Fach- und Lehramtsstudierenden. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik: Regensburg, Germany, March 05, 2019.

2018:


  • Berens, Florian (2018). Discussing a project: Measuring, explaining and treating attitudes and beliefs in statistics education at university level. Herbsttagung des Arbeitskreises Stochastik der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik: Würzburg, Germany, November 04, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian (2018). Discussing a project: Measuring, explaining and treating attitudes and beliefs in statistics education at university level. Nachwuchskonferenz der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik: Münster, Germany, October 01, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian (2018). Zwei Weltbilder zur Statistik und deren Bedeutung für die Einstellungen zur Statistikausbildung. Statistische Woche: Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen und der Österreichischen Statistischen Gesellschaft, des Verbandes Deutscher Städtestatistiker und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie: Linz, Austria, September 11, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian (2018). Transferability of the world views based on Grigutsch and Törner to the domain of statistics and their relation towards attitudes. International Conference on Mathematical Views: Helsinki, Finland, August 22, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian (2018). Attitudes towards Research as a source for negative Statistics Attitudes. International Conference on Teaching Statistics: Kyoto, Japan, July 10, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2018). Statistische Attitudes als Moderatorvariablen in der Evaluation aktivierender Methoden in Statistikvorlesungen. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung von Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik und Deutscher Mathematiker-Vereinigung: Paderborn, Germany, March 09, 2018.

2017:


  • Berens, Florian (2017). Mit Thomas Müller in die statistische Bildung: Grundvorstellungen und Begriffsentwicklung am Beispiel der Lagemaße. Autorentagung zum Sammelband Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen: Festschrift für Steffen Kühnel: Göttingen, Germany, November 16, 2017.

  • Berens, Florian (2017). Discussing a project: Attitudes and Beliefs in Statistics Education and their implications for teaching and learning (at university level). Nachwuchskonferenz der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik: Essen, Germany, September 19, 2017.

2014:


  • Berens, Florian, Zimoch, Matthias & Cordes, Melanie (2014). Improve teaching by (virtual) enactive learning with the Collection of Goettingen. Workshop at Quality Class in Mathematics Education at CIEAEM 66: Lyon, France, July 19, 2014.

Poster presentations:


  • Barth, Jakob, Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2022). How early can we provide feedback? Predicting success using data on learning behavior and supervised machine learning. International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference: Newport Beach, United States, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, March 24, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2021). First design cycles to develop a concept of learning analytics as a feedback provider. Conference of the International Group for the Psychologyof Mathematics Education: Khon Kaen, Thailand, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, July 22, 2021.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2020). The Implications of Attitudes and Beliefs on Interactive Learning in Statistics Education. Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education: Boston (MA), United States, February 29, 2020.

  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2019). Einsatz von Chatbot-basierten Lernsystemen in der Hochschullehre - Einblicke in die Implementierung zweier Pedagogical Conversational Agents. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Bildungstechnologien der Gesellschaft für Informatik und der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft: Berlin, Germany, September 17, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2019). Interactive Learning on Demand: A Chat-based App for Statistics Education.International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching: Essen, Germany, July 22, 2019.

  • Berens, Florian & Hobert, Sebastian (2018). Attitudes toward Statistics as Moderator Variables in the Evaluation of Activating Methods in Lectures on Statistics. International Conference on Teaching Statistics: Kyoto, Japan, July 10, 2018.

  • Berens, Florian, Schlosser, Stephan & Höhne, Jan Karem (2018). On-device and off-device multitasking and its effect on web and mobile web survey completion. General Online Research Conference: Cologne, Germany, March 01, 2018.

Conference organization:


  • Berens, Florian (2022). Leading the team organizing the topic Advances in statistics education research working with Katie Makar, Laura Martignon, and Tulia Esther Rivera. International Conference on Teaching Statistics: Rosario, Argentina, September 11-16, 2022.

  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2022). Organization and Chairing of the Minitrack: Learning Analytics and Intelligent Learning Applications. American Conference on Information Systems: Minneapolis, United States, August 10-14, 2022.

  • Berens, Florian (2021). Organization and Chairing of the Session: Teaching qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in social science programs. International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33): Nicosia, Cyprus, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, September 07-10, 2021.

  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2021). Organization and Chairing of the Minitrack: Learning Analytics and Intelligent Learning Applications. American Conference on Information Systems: Montreal, Canada, Held hybrid due to the Covid-19 pandemic, August 05-07, 2021.

  • Hobert, Sebastian & Berens, Florian (2020). Organization and Chairing of the Minitrack: Learning Analytics and Intelligent Learning Applications. American Conference on Information Systems: Salt Lake City, United States, Held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, August 12-16, 2020.

  • Mays, Anja, Dingelstedt, André, Hambauer, Verena, Berens, Florian, Schlosser, Stephan & Höhne, Jan Karem (2017). Conference for and of the Authors of the Edited Volume: Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen: Festschrift für Steffen Kühnel: Göttingen, Germany, November 16, 2017.