Elisabeth Bauer, M. Sc. Learning Sciences

Research area

• Diagnostic competences
• Scientific reasoning and argumentation
• Adaptive feedback
• Simulation-based learning

Academic & professional background

After my Bachelor’s studies in Educational Sciences at LMU Munich, I continued with my Master’s studies in Psychology: Learning Sciences, at LMU Munich as well. I graduated from the program in 2017 and started working as a research associate at the LMU Chair of Education and Educational Psychology with Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer. Since then, I mostly worked for the BMBF funded project FAMULUS, with my current REASON supervisors Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer and Prof. Dr. Martin R. Fischer. The FAMULUS project investigates fostering diagnostic competences in medical education and teacher training through adaptive, online case-simulations.

During my time as a FAMULUS project member, I developed my PhD research interest in fostering pre-service teachers’ diagnostic reasoning and argumentation using adaptive feedback and simulation-based learning. Part of my research is exploring diagnostic argumentation using Epistemic Network Analysis, a methodology proposed by Prof. Dr. David Williamson Shaffer of the University of Wisconsin Madison, who is now co-supervising my PhD project. I already got familiar with the REASON program during my associate membership from end of 2018 onwards and am happy to continue my research as a full member of the current cohort.

Teaching

• Winter term 2019/20 & summer term 2020: Seminar accompanying the Educational Sciences Bachelor’s module “Empirical Research Methods”.
• Summer term 2019 & winter term 2019/20: Research seminar in the Psychology: Learning Sciences Master’s module “Learning, Instruction, Training and Technology”.-

• Winter term 2018/19 & summer term 2019: Seminar accompanying the Educational Sciences Bachelor’s module “Empirical Research Methods”.

• Summer term 2018: Online seminar accompanying the Educational Sciences Bachelor’s module “Teaching and Learning II”: “Introduction to media didactics and instructional design using learning management systems”.

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Bauer, E., Fischer, F., Kiesewetter, J., Shaffer, D. W., Fischer, M. R., Zottmann, J. M., & Sailer, M. (2020). Diagnostic Activities and Diagnostic Practices in Medical Education and Teacher Education: An Interdisciplinary Comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:562665. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.562665/full

Online-Papers and Conference Proceedings

• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Schulz, C., Pfeiffer, J., Gurevych, I., Fischer, M. R. & Fischer, F. (2019). Using ENA to Analyze Pre-service Teachers’ Diagnostic Argumentations: A Conceptual Framework and Initial Applications. In International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (pp. 14-25). Springer, Cham.
• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Shaffer, D. W., Schulz, C., Pfeiffer, J., ... & Fischer, F. (2020). Pre-Service Teachers’ Diagnostic Argumentation: What is the Roleof Conceptual Knowledge and Cross-Domain Epistemic Activities?. ICLS 2020 Proceedings, 2399-2400.
• Pfeiffer, J., Meyer, C., Schulz, C., Kiesewetter, J., Zottmann, J., Sailer, M., Bauer, E., Fischer, F., Fischer, M., & Gurevych, I. (2019). FAMULUS: Interactive Annotation and Feedback Generation for Teaching Diagnostic Reasoning; https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11254v1
• Schulz, C., Meyer, C. M., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Bauer, E., Fischer, F., Fischer M. R. & Gurevych, I. (2018). Challenges in the Automatic Analysis of Students' Diagnostic Reasoning, 2018; arXiv:1811.10550.
• Schulz, C., Meyer, C. M., Kiesewetter, J., Sailer, M., Bauer, E., Fischer, M., Fischer, F., & Gurevych, I. (2019): Analysis of Automatic Annotation Suggestions for Hard Discourse-Level Tasks in Expert Domains; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02564.pdf 

Conference Presentations

• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Schulz, C., Gurevych, I., Fischer, M. R. & Fischer, F.: Förderung von Diagnosekompetenzen durch Fallszenarien in simulationsbasierten Lernumgebungen. Tagung „Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für die Hochschuldidaktik“, Mainz, Germany, 21.-22.03.2018.
• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Fischer, M. R., Fischer, F.: Förderung von Diagnosekompetenzen durch simulationsbasiertes Lernen im Lehramtsstudium: Effekte sequenzieller vs. holistischer Fallsimulationen. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 15.-20.09.2018.
• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Schulz, C., Kiesewetter, J., Fischer, M. R., Gurevych, I. & Fischer, F.: Diagnostic activity patterns of pre-service teachers in learning with case-simulations. Konferenz der European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Aachen, Germany, 12.-16.08.2019.
• Bauer, E., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Schulz, C., Pfeiffer, J., Gurevych, I., Fischer, M. R. & Fischer, F.: Using ENA to Analyze Pre-service Teachers’ Diagnostic Argumentations: A Conceptual Framework and Initial Applications. In International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography. International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE), Madison WI, US, 20.-22.10.2019.
• Jung, V., Schönberger, R., Sailer, M., Bauer E., Fischer F., Fischer M.R. & Kiesewetter J.: Der Effekt von Vorwissen und Falldarbietungsformat auf die Diagnoserichtigkeit und den prozeduralen Wissenserwerb Medizinstudierender. Presentation at the Conference of the German Medical Education Association, Vienna, Austria, 19.-22.09.2018.
• Kiesewetter, J., Jung V., Sailer, M., Schönberger R., Bauer E., Zottmann J., Hege I., Fischer F. & Fischer M. R.: Fostering diagnostic competence with whole cases vs. serial cue cases: Effects of whole case vs. serial cue on learning process and outcomes. Research Paper at the Association of Medical Education Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 25.-29.08.2018
• Schäffner, P., Bauer, E., Schulz, C., Gurevych, I., Fischer, M. R., & Kiesewetter, J.: The role of epistemic activities on diagnostic outcomes in medical students’ learning with two different virtual patient case formats. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), Frankfurt, Germany, 25.-28.09.2019.
• Schulz, C., Kiesewetter, J., Sailer, M., Bauer, E., Fischer, F., Fischer, M.R. & Gurevych, I.: The Theory of Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation in Practice. Conference on Bridging the Gap between Formal Argumentation and Actual Human Reasoning. Bochum, Germany, 4.-5.10.2018.
• Schulz, C., Sailer, M., Kiesewetter, J., Bauer, E., Fischer, F., Fischer, M.R. & Gurevych, I.: Automatic Recommendations for Data Coding: a use case from medical and teacher education. IEEE eScience Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29.10-1.11.2018. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2018.00100
• Schulz, C., Meyer, C., Kiesewetter, J., Sailer, M., Bauer, E., Fischer, M., Fischer, F., Fischer, F. & Gurevych, I.: Analysis of Automatic Annotation Suggestions for Hard Discourse-Level Tasks in Expert Domains. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy, https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02564