App-based Learning for Kindergarten Children at Home

Project Information

Learning4Kids

Grant agreement ID: 801980

DOI

10.3030/801980

Project closed

EC signature date 6 November 2018

Start date 1 March 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 969,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 969,00

Coordinated by

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Supporting children’s numeracy competencies and families’ HNE: Exploring the role of apps and digital parent information in STEM vs. Non-STEM families

Author(s): Anna Mues, Efsun Birtwistle, Astrid Wirth, Tina Schiele, Frank Niklas
Published in: European Journal of Psychology of Education, Issue 40, 2025, ISSN 0256-2928
Publisher: Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada
DOI: 10.1007/s10212-025-00953-7

Empirische Arbeit: Die familiäre Lernumwelt als Mediator zwischen Elterneinstellungen und schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Kompetenzen im Vorschulalter

Author(s): Frank Niklas, Anna Mues, María Valcárcel Jiménez, Tina Schiele, Efsun Birtwistle, Astrid Wirth
Published in: Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, Issue 72, 2025, Page(s) 133-147, ISSN 0342-183X
Publisher: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag
DOI: 10.2378/peu2025.art11d

Mobile sensing in psychological and educational research: Examples from two application fields

Author(s): Efsun Birtwistle, Ramona Schoedel, Florian Bemmann, Astrid Wirth, Christoph Sürig, Clements Stachl, Markus Bühner, Frank Niklas
Published in: International Journal of Testing, 2022, ISSN 1530-5058
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/15305058.2022.2036160

Parental (STEM) Occupations, the Home Numeracy Environment, and Kindergarten Children’s Numerical Competencies

Author(s): Anna Mues, Efsun Birtwistle, AstridWirth, Frank Niklas
Published in: Education Sciences, Issue 11, 819, 2021, ISSN 2227-7102
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/educsci11120819

Evaluating Educational Apps for Preschoolers: Differences and Agreements between the Assessments of Experts, Parents and Their Children

Author(s): Astrid Wirth, Anna Mues, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue 160, 108361, 2023, ISSN 1873-7692
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4651692

The Home Literacy Environment and television exposure as mediators between migration background and preschool children’s linguistic abilities.

Author(s): María Valcárcel Jiménez, Astrid Wirth, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas
Published in: Reading & Writing, 2023, ISSN 0922-4777
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-023-10458-8

Bridging the gap: A longitudinal study on the relation between preschool children’s moral self-concept, normative stances, and sharing behavior

Author(s): Tina Schiele, Anna Mues, Astrid Wirth, Natalie Christner, Markus Paulus, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas
Published in: Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 100027, ISSN 2773-2339
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.sel.2024.100027

The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds

Author(s): Tina Schiele, Peter Edelsbrunner, Anna Mues, Efsun Birtwistle, Astrid Wirth, Frank Niklas
Published in: Learning and Individual Differences, Issue 117, 2024, Page(s) 102579, ISSN 1041-6080
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102579

Der Zusammenhang mathematischer Lernerfahrungen in der Familie mit strukturellen Hintergrundmerkmalen und mathematischen Vorläuferfähigkeiten im Vorschulalter

Author(s): Anna Mues, Tina Schiele, Valérie-Danielle Berner, Stefan Ufer, Efsun Birtwistle, Astrid Wirth, Frank Niklas
Published in: Frühe Bildung, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 201-210, ISSN 2191-9186
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1026/2191-9186/a000684

Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany

Author(s): María Valcárcel Jiménez, Melike Yumus, Tina Schiele, Anna Mues, Frank Niklas
Published in: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Issue 244, 2024, Page(s) 105927, ISSN 0022-0965
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105927

New Directions in the Conceptualization and Operationalization of the Home Learning Environment

Author(s): Astrid Wirth, Matthias Stadler, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas
Published in: Journal of Educational Psychology, Issue 115(1), 2023, Page(s) 160-172, ISSN 0022-0663
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/edu0000749

Associations between children’s numeracy competencies, mothers’ and fathers’ mathematical beliefs, and numeracy activities at home

Author(s): Anna Mues, Astrid Wirth, Efsun Birtwistle, Frank Niklas
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2022, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.835433

App-based learning for kindergarten children at home (Learning4Kids): Study protocol for cohort 2 and the school assessments.

Author(s): Frank Niklas; Efsun Birtwistle; Astrid Wirth; Tina Schiele; Anna Mues
Published in: BMC Pediatric, Issue 22:705, 2022, ISSN 1471-2431
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-022-03737-w

Training of Executive Functions in Children: A meta-analysis of cognitive training interventions

Author(s): Efsun Birtwistle, Olga Chernikova, Miriam Wünsch, Frank Niklas
Published in: Sage Open, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/21582440241311060

Good child, bad child: the development of and relations between children’s socioemotional competencies and moral self-concept from kindergarten to the end of Grade 1

Author(s): Tina Schiele, Anna Mues, María Valcárcel Jiménez, Frank Niklas
Published in: Cognition and Emotion, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0269-9931
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2491538

Learning apps at home prepare children for school

Author(s): Frank Niklas, Efsun Birtwistle, Anna Mues, Astrid Wirth
Published in: Child Development, Issue 96, 2025, Page(s) 577-590, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14184

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

App-based learning for kindergarten children at home (Learning4Kids): study protocol for cohort 1 and the kindergarten assessments

Author(s): Frank Niklas, Efsun Annac, Astrid Wirth
Published in: BMC Pediatrics, Issue 20/1, 2020, ISSN 1471-2431
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-020-02432-y