The impact of university teacher training on prospective teachers’ CK and PCK – a comparison between Austria and Germany

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 8 Regression models: The influence of OTL on PCK (PVs)

	Germany				Austria
Independent variables	B	SE	β		B	SE	β
Control variables
Sex (0 male; 1 female)	−0.02	0.02	−0.03		−0.07	0.05	−0.11
High School GPA (1 to 4; 1 best grade)	−0.16	0.02	−0.29	***	−0.10	0.03	−0.26	***
OTL outside of university education
Commercial high school (Dummy; n_G = 463; n_A = 177)	0.04	0.02	0.06	*	0.02	0.05	0.03
Commercial apprenticeship (Dummy; n_G = 535; n_A = 18)	0.24	0.02	0.39	***	−0.01	0.08	−0.01
Internship in accounting (Dummy; n_G = 159; n_A = 76)	0.06	0.03	0.07	*	0.07	0.04	0.13
Internship in school (Dummy; n_G = 614; n_A = 123)	0.00	0.02	0.01		−0.07	0.04	−0.14
OTL during university education
Major in accounting (Dummy; n_G = 128; n_A = 67)	0.08	0.03	0.08	**	0.02	0.05	0.03
Courses in accounting didactics (Dummy; n_G = 94; n_A = 156)	0.10	0.04	0.09	**	−0.08	0.04	−0.14
Courses in business didactics (Dummy; n_G = 346; n_A = 154)	0.05	0.02	0.07	**	0.01	0.05	0.01
R² (adjusted R²)	0.28 (0.27)				0.15 (0.11)

Note: *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001; B unstandardised regression coefficient, β standardised regression coefficient. n_G sample Germany; n_A sample Austria. The table shows the rounded values.