Domain-Specificity of Educational and Learning Capital: A Study With Musical Talents.

domain specificity educational capital learning capital music talent development

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 14 05 2020
accepted: 21 08 2020
entrez: 26 10 2020
pubmed: 27 10 2020
medline: 27 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The Education and Learning Capital Approach (ELCA) has been widely used to investigate talent development. A research gap is the implicit consideration of the domain specificity of educational and learning capital. In an empirical study with 365 school students we investigated the domain specificity of the approach for the domains of school learning and learning to play a musical instrument. At the beginning of the school year, students filled out a version of the Questionnaire for Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) for both domains and also responded to other domain-related measures (self-efficacy, grades). Six weeks later, students filled out a learning diary for 1 week in which they reported their activities on an hourly basis and responded to questions concerning these activities. Based on the Sociotope Approach this procedure helped to identify times in which students actually practiced their musical instrument, times that students could potentially practice their musical instrument (objective action space), and times that students would be expected to practice their musical instrument (normative action space). Three hypotheses were tested and could be supported. First, the availability of educational and learning capital for school learning and learning an instrument differed. Second, a confirmatory factor analysis supported the factorial validity of the domain-specific capital measurements. Third, domain-congruent correlations were mostly higher than domain-incongruent correlations, i.e., the availability of educational and learning capital for school learning correlated more closely with variables related to school learning than with variables related to learning a musical instrument. Similarly, the availability of the capitals for learning a musical instrument correlated more closely with variables related to learning a musical instrument.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33101133
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.561974
pmc: PMC7546344
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

561974

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Reutlinger, Pfeiffer, Stoeger, Vialle and Ziegler.

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Auteurs

Marold Reutlinger (M)

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Wolfgang Pfeiffer (W)

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Heidrun Stoeger (H)

School Research, School Development, and Evaluation, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Wilma Vialle (W)

Faculty of Social Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

Albert Ziegler (A)

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

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