Publications by authors named "R Obermeier"

Due to their connections with positive educational outcomes, the maintenance of good health and scholastic well-being are highly relevant topics. However, to date, no studies have investigated developmental changes in scholastic well-being in the light of achievement emotions and instructional quality-although these predictors offer good approaches for intervention. A sample of  = 667 (age:  = 10.

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Higher education includes e-learning in addition to on-site learning. Still, the shift to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) as reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer semester 2020, presented a challenging situation for students. Cross-sectional studies pointed towards higher stress levels of students.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread school closures, which have been associated with massive changes in teaching and learning and student learning outcomes. While initial performance studies have examined learning losses due to the school closures, there are few findings to date that provide evidence on key predictors of the development of other student outcomes (stress experience, learning gain, learning time) during the school closures. This study approaches these questions by retrospectively predicting student self-assessments in these student outcomes for the periods before and during school closures by social background (academic household, language spoken at home) and instructional design (open vs.

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Background: Since scholastic well-being is connected with intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and effective learning, it is highly relevant for educational research. It is influenced by a variety of individual and contextual determinants and differs for several groups of students with respect to their environmental conditions.

Aims: Up to now, there has been neither approach in answering questions about group-differences between students with high or low levels of scholastic well-being nor in defining variables that are most different for these groups.

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Accurate and early detection of breast cancer is of high importance, as it is directly associated with the patients' overall well-being during treatment and their chances of survival. Uncertainties in current breast imaging methods can potentially cause two main problems: (1) missing newly formed or small tumors; and (2) false alarms, which could be a source of stress for patients. A recent study at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) indicates that using Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) can reduce the number of false alarms, when compared to conventional mammography.

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