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M.A. Patricia Schwiering

Research associate and doctoral candidate
Room: IB 5/155
Phone: +49 234 32 - 19508
Office hours: Current by appointment by e-mail
ORC-ID: 0000-0001-9853-7794
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Focus of research

  • Teacher beliefs and attitudes

Further information


since 10/2022

Research associate in the DFG project "Causal Effects of Teacher Mindsets on Student Motivation and Emotion"
Research Group Educational Psychology and Development across the Lifespan, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum

2022

Research associate at the chair of Educational and Differential Psychology
Institute of Psychology, TU Dortmund University

2021 -2022

Research associate in the DFG project "Causal Effects of Teacher Mindsets on Student Motivation and Emotion"
Chair of Educational and Differential Psychology, Institute of Psychology, TU Dortmund University

2019-2021 

Research assistant in the BMBF project "BiFoKi - Bielefeld training concept for cooperation in inclusive schools"
Bielefeld University

2021

Master of Arts (M.A.) Educational Science
Bielefeld University

2019

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Educational Science and Linguistics/Phonetics (2-Subject-Bachelor)
University of Cologne

2017/2018

Semester abroad
KU Leuven, Campus Brussels

Presentations

  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2024, April 11-14). Effects of a Teacher-Targeted Growth Mindset Intervention on Teachers' Professional Beliefs, Emotions, and Behavior. In D. B. Miele & F. Lauermann (Chairs), Exploring the Situated Nature of Teachers’ Ability-Related Beliefs, Classroom Practices, and Well-Being [Symposium]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association [AERA], Philadelphia, United States.
  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2024, March 18-20). Eine experimentelle Studie zu den Effekten von Lehrermindsets auf den Umgang mit leistungsschwachen Schülern, beruflichen Überzeugungen, Emotionen und Verhalten [An experimental study on the effects of teacher mindsets on coping with underachieving students, professional beliefs, emotions and behavior] [Oral presentation]. 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Empirical Educational Research, Potsdam.
  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2024, February 1). Effekte mathespezifischer Lehrkräftemindsets auf die Motivation und Emotion von Schüler*innen - eine Interventionsstudie [Effects of math-specific teacher mindsets on students' motivation and emotion - an intervention study] [Poster presentation]. Internal Meeting of the Center of Educational Studies [CoES], Bochum.
  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2023, September 18-20). Effekte einer Growth Mindset Intervention bei Lehramtsstudierenden auf den Umgang mit leistungsschwachen Schülern, Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung, Emotion und das erwartete Unterrichtsverhalten [Effects of a growth mindset intervention in student teachers on dealing with underachieving students, self-efficacy expectation, emotion and expected teaching behavior] [Oral presentation]. 19th Conference of the German Psychological Society's Specialist Group on Educational Psychology, Kiel.
  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2023, June 14-15). Growth Mindsets als Teil der Schule von morgen? – Eine experimentelle Studie zu den Effekten von Lehrermindsets [Growth mindsets as part of the school of tomorrow? - An experimental study on the effects of teacher mindsets] [Poster presentation]. 8th Dortmund Symposium on Empirical Educational Research, Dortmund.
  • Schwiering, P. & Heyder, A. (2023, March 30). Effekte von Lehrermindsets auf Schülermotivation und -emotion [Effects of teacher mindsets on student motivation and emotion] [Poster presentation]. Internal Meeting of the Center of Educational Studies [CoES], Bochum.
  • Eisenbeiß, S., Schwiering, P., & Wrobel, F. (2018, October 31). Pronomeninterpretation - die Rolle von Pronomentyp und Volitionalität [Pronoun interpretation - the role of pronoun type and volitionality] [Oral presentation]. Linguistic Working Group of the University of Cologne, Köln.

Other works

  • Schwiering, P. (2021). Multiprofessionelle Kooperation von Schulsozialarbeit und Sonderpädagogik in Teams in inklusiven Schulen. Evaluation einer Fortbildungsintervention [Multi-professional cooperation between school social work and special needs education in teams in inclusive schools. Evaluation of a training intervention] [Unpublished master's thesis]. Bielefeld University. 

2017/2018

Erasmus+ scholarship