All Outputs (9)

Empirische Arbeit: Die familiäre Lernumwelt als Mediator zwischen Elterneinstellungen und schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Kompetenzen im Vorschulalter (2025)
Journal Article
Niklas, F., Mues, A., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Schiele, T., Birtwistle, E., & Wirth, A. (2025). Empirische Arbeit: Die familiäre Lernumwelt als Mediator zwischen Elterneinstellungen und schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Kompetenzen im Vorschulalter. Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 72(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.2378/peu2025.art11d

Die familiäre Lernumwelt spielt eine wichtige Rolle für die frühe kindliche Kompetenzentwicklung. Hierbei bietet sich die Unterscheidung nach Kompetenzbereichen in eine schriftsprachliche (Home Literacy Environment, HLE) und eine mathematische (Home... Read More about Empirische Arbeit: Die familiäre Lernumwelt als Mediator zwischen Elterneinstellungen und schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Kompetenzen im Vorschulalter.

Supporting children’s numeracy competencies and families’ HNE: Exploring the role of apps and digital parent information in STEM vs. Non-STEM families (2025)
Journal Article
Mues, A., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., Schiele, T., & Niklas, F. (2025). Supporting children’s numeracy competencies and families’ HNE: Exploring the role of apps and digital parent information in STEM vs. Non-STEM families. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 40(2), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-025-00953-7

Early numeracy competencies are of great importance for children’s competency development. Here, early digital intervention approaches offer the potential to support all children and their families. We investigated whether the provision of specific n... Read More about Supporting children’s numeracy competencies and families’ HNE: Exploring the role of apps and digital parent information in STEM vs. Non-STEM families.

Training of Executive Functions in Children: A meta-analysis of cognitive training interventions (2025)
Journal Article
Birtwistle, E., Chernikova, O., Wünsch, M., & Niklas, F. (2025). Training of Executive Functions in Children: A meta-analysis of cognitive training interventions. SAGE Open, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241311060

We investigated the effect of cognitive training of executive functions on children’s cognitive outcomes. To address this issue, a systematic meta-analysis of published research articles on cognitive training interventions was performed considering c... Read More about Training of Executive Functions in Children: A meta-analysis of cognitive training interventions.

The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds (2024)
Journal Article
Schiele, T., Edelsbrunner, P., Mues, A., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., & Niklas, F. (2025). The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds. Learning and Individual Differences, 117, Article 102579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102579

Family background factors like socio-economic status (SES) and migration background, along with child characteristics such as gender and intelligence, significantly influence early childhood competencies. Children from families with low SES and/or mi... Read More about The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds.

Learning apps at home prepare children for school (2024)
Journal Article
Niklas, F., Birtwistle, E., Mues, A., & Wirth, A. (2025). Learning apps at home prepare children for school. Child Development, 96(2), 577-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14184

The usage of high-quality learning applications (apps) at home may increase children's mathematical and literacy competencies. This approach was tested in a family intervention study. Intervention families (n = 302) in two German cohorts (N = 500; M... Read More about Learning apps at home prepare children for school.

Evaluating educational apps for preschoolers: Differences and agreements between the assessments of experts, parents, and their children (2024)
Journal Article
Wirth, A., Mues, A., Birtwistle, E., & Niklas, F. (2024). Evaluating educational apps for preschoolers: Differences and agreements between the assessments of experts, parents, and their children. Computers in Human Behavior, 160, Article 108361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108361

Educational apps offer a wide range of opportunities to foster children's early competency development during preschool age. However, due to inconsistent evaluation criteria, comparing the educational value of different apps is challenging, and concl... Read More about Evaluating educational apps for preschoolers: Differences and agreements between the assessments of experts, parents, and their children.

Children's Early Spelling Development in the Context of the Home Literacy Environment (2023)
Book Chapter
Niklas, F., Wirth, A., Mues, A., & Birtwistle, E. (2023). Children's Early Spelling Development in the Context of the Home Literacy Environment. In Y. Ye, T. Inoue, U. Maurer, & C. McBride (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling (366-378). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284048-32

Young children’s early learning occurs in the context of the home learning environment. Here, the home literacy environment (HLE) comprises of all activities and aspects in the family that support their linguistic and literacy competencies’ developme... Read More about Children's Early Spelling Development in the Context of the Home Literacy Environment.

Mobile sensing in psychological and educational research: Examples from two application fields (2022)
Journal Article
Birtwistle, E., Schoedel, R., Bemmann, F., Wirth, A., Sürig, C., Stachl, C., Bühner, M., & Niklas, F. (2022). Mobile sensing in psychological and educational research: Examples from two application fields. International Journal of Testing, 22(3-4), 264-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/15305058.2022.2036160

Digital technologies play an important role in our daily lives. Smartphones and tablet computers are very common worldwide and are available for everybody from a very early age. This trend offers the opportunity to track digital usage data for psycho... Read More about Mobile sensing in psychological and educational research: Examples from two application fields.

Kinder spielerisch auf die Schule vorbereiten: Fähigkeitsentwicklung und Förderung im Vorschulalter (2022)
Book
Wirth, A., Birtwistle, E., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2022). Kinder spielerisch auf die Schule vorbereiten: Fähigkeitsentwicklung und Förderung im Vorschulalter. Hogrefe

Im Buch „Kinder spielerisch auf die Schule vorbereiten“ geben wissenschaftliche Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der frühkindlichen Bildung Einblick in die Fähigkeitsentwicklung von Kindern im Vorschulalter. Mit ihren konkreten Praxistipps ge... Read More about Kinder spielerisch auf die Schule vorbereiten: Fähigkeitsentwicklung und Förderung im Vorschulalter.