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Name Tina Schiele (ʃiːlə)

Pronouns she/her

ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9200-2355

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Research Interests

• Development of academic and moral self-concept in early childhood

• Home learning environment

• Development of academic and socioemotional competencies in early childhood

• Digital media in early childhood

• Sibling relationships

Short Bio

Tina Schiele studied educational science at the University of Munich (LMU), educational science with a focus on school and teacher development at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and began her doctoral studies in psychology at LMU. Tina is currently working in the EU-funded longitudinal project "Learning4Kids - App-based Learning for Kindergarten Children at Home" at the Chair of Empirical Pedagogy and Educational Psychology at LMU.

Her teaching encompasses basic statistics, socioemotional and academic development within the family context, and digital learning in early childhood. Her research focuses on the development of the moral and academic self-concept in young children, the professionalisation of early childhood education professionals, and app-based learning. 

Academic Qualifications

Since 10/2022 LMU Munich, PhD student in Psychology (aimed Dr. phil.), Prof. Dr. Frank Niklas

Focus: Development and interrelation of moral self-concept and socioemotional competencies from kindergarten to primary school

10/2020 - 09/2022 Technical University Munich (TUM), Master of Education

Subject: Research on Teaching and Learning

Focus: Home numeracy environment, parent-child interaction

Degree: M.Ed.

10/2017 - 09/2020 LMU Munich, Bachelor of Arts

Subject: Educational Science

Focus: Home learning environment, parental attitudes, family background

Degree: B.A.

Work Experience

Since 10/2022 LMU Munich, Education and Educational Psychology, work unit of Prof. Dr. Frank Niklas
Research Associate and PhD student

07/2019 - 09/2022 LMU Munich, Education and Educational Psychology, Learning4Kids Project
Research Assistant

09/2018 - 07/2019 LMU Munich, Stiftung Kick ins Leben, ELLiS Project
Research Assistant

Research Projects

Since 03/2025 Apps4Kids
Project staff

10/2022 - 03/2025 Learning4Kids, funded by the European Union (ERC Starting Grant)
Project staff

10/2022 - 12/2022 Rotary4Kitas, funded by Rotary International, District 1880, Germany
Project staff

Memberships

• Association for Moral Education (AME)

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)

• European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

Reviewer Activities

• Child Development

List of Courses Taught

Since 10/2023 Fundamentals of Data Collection (B.Sc. Psychology), LMU Munich

Since 10/2024 Diagnostics and Intervention (B.Sc. Psychology), LMU Munich

Since 04/2024 Advanced Research in Various Subfields of Psychology (B.Sc. Psychology), LMU Munich

04/2024 - 09/2024 Teaching and Learning II - Competence Development in the Family Context (B.A. Educational Science), LMU Munich

Supervised Theses

Bachelor Students 1 (Psychology)

Pre-Service Teachers 2

Scholarships

10/2022 - 07/2024 TUM:Junge Akademie (research scholarship programme), Project ERIK*A

Qualitative assessment of conditions for success and hurdles in the theory-practice-transfer in sex education in Bavarian schools

2023 ERIK*A - Junge Akademie (tum.de) 

Nominations and Awards

• Moral Development and Education Promise Award 2024 by the AERA Special Interest Group Moral Development and Education (MDE-SIG)

Language Skills

German Fluent

English Fluent

Danish Fluent

Russian Basic Knowledge

Spanish Basic Knowledge

Publications

Journal Articles With Peer-Review

Wirth, A., Mues, A., Schuster, J., Schiele, T., & Niklas, F. (2025). Medienkompetenzen von Fachkräften in der Frühpädagogik stärken. Eine Interventionsstudie zur Förderung pädagogischer Handlungskompetenzen durch Fortbildungsangebote. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 199-214. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/00/2025.08.07.X

Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Heine, J.-H., Schiele, T., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2025). The role of parental attitudes, home literacy environment, and migration background in preschool children's emergent literacy skills. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 99, 101830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101830 

Schiele, T.,  Mues, A., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., & Niklas, F. (2025). 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. Cognition and Emotion, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2491538 

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, 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-025-00953-7 

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, 102579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102579

Mues, A., Schiele, T., Berner, V.-D., Ufer, S., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., & Niklas, F. (2024). Der Zusammenhang mathematischer Lernerfahrungen in der Familie mit strukturellen Hintergrundmerkmalen und mathematischen Vorläuferfähigkeiten im Vorschulalter. Frühe Bildung, 13(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1026/2191-9186/a000684

Valcárcel Jiménez, M. , Yumus, M., Schiele, T., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2024). Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 244, 105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105927

Schiele, T., Mues, A., Wirth, A., Christner, N., Paulus, M., Birtwistle, E., & Niklas, F. (2024). Bridging the gap: A longitudinal study on the relation between preschool children’s moral self-concept, normative stances, and sharing behavior. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 3, 100027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2024.100027

Niklas, F., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., Schiele, T., & Mues, A. (2022). App-based learning for kindergarten children at home (Learning4Kids): Study protocol for cohort 2 and the school assessments. BMC Pediatrics, 22, 705. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022- 03737-w

Books and Book Chapters

Mues, A., Wirth, A., Schiele, T., & Niklas, F. (2024). Digitale Medien kompetent in Kitas einsetzen. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-3-662-69759-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69759-7

Niklas, F., Schiele, T., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., & Mues, A. (in press). Interventions in the Home Learning Environment and Children's Language and Literacy Skills. In G. K. Georgiou & T. Inoue, Home Literacy Environment and Literacy Acquisition: Evidence from Different Languages and Contexts.

Conferences

Schiele, T., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Camligüney, Ö, & Niklas, F. (2025). Latent Profile Transitions of Moral Self-Concept and Normative Stances Across Preschool. PAEPS 2025, September 29 - October 1, Jena, Germany.

Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Edelsbrunner, P., Schiele, T., Camligüney, Ö., & Niklas, F. (2025). Unveiling Patterns: Understanding the Relations Between Profiles of the Home Literacy Environment, Family Background Characteristics, and Preschool Children's Literacy Skills. PAEPS 2025, September 29 - October 1, Jena, Germany.

Niklas, F., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Camligüney, Ö., & Schiele, T. (2025). Longitudinal Effects of an App-Based Intervention on Children's Mathematical and Literacy Outcomes. PAEPS 2025, September 29 - October 1, Jena, Germany.

Schiele, T.,  Mues, A., Valcárcel  Jiménez, M., Edelsbrunner, P., Berner, V.-D., Gasteiger, H., & Niklas, F. (2025). Supporting early math development through learning apps: evidence from preschoolers with diverse backgrounds. EARLI 2025, August 25 - 29, Graz, Austria.

Berner, V.-D., Moeller, K., Hischa, V., Schiele, T., Essler, S., Niklas, F., & Gasteiger, H. (2025). Links between parents' beliefs, children's self-concept and competencies in kindergarten in math. EARLI 2025, August 25 - 29, Graz, Austria.

Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Heine, J.-H., Schiele, T., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2025). The Role of Parental Attitudes Towards Reading, the Home Literacy Environment, and Migration Background in Children's Literacy Skills. AERA, April 23 - 27, Denver, Colorado.

Schiele, T., Mues, A., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Wirth, A., Birtwistle, E., & Niklas, F. (2024). Akademisches Selbstkonzept im Vorschulalter: Zusammenhänge mit schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Fähigkeiten. 53th DGPs Congress, 16. - 19. September, Vienna, Austria.

Niklas, F., Mues, A., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Schiele, T., Birtwistle, E., & Wirth, A. (2024). Die familiäre Lernumwelt als Mediator zwischen Elterneinstellungen und schriftsprachlichen und mathematischen Kompetenzen im Vorschulalter. 53th DGPs Congress, 16. - 19. September, Vienna, Austria.

Mues, A., Schiele, T., Ufer, S., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., & Niklas, F. (2024). Der Zusammenhang mathematischer Lernerfahrungen in der Familie mit strukturellen Hintergrundmerkmalen und mathematischen Vorläuferfähigkeiten im Vorschulalter. 53th DGPs Congress, 16. - 19. September, Vienna, Austria.

Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Yumus, M., Schiele, T., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2024). Schriftsprachliche Vorläuferfähigkeiten als Prädiktoren für das Wortlesen und die Rechtschreibung in der 2. Klasse und die Rolle des Migrationshintergrunds. 53th DGPs Congress, 16. - 19. September, Vienna, Austria.

Schiele, T., Mues, A., Valcárcel Jiménez, M., & Niklas, F. (2024). Sibling relationship types and their association with children's socioemotional competencies at the start of primary school. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 2024, 16. - 20. June, Lisbon, Portugal.

Niklas, F., Birtwistle, E., Wirth, A., Schiele, T., & Mues, A. (2024). Literacy first: Intervention results from the Learning4Kids study. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 2024, 16. - 20. June, Lisbon, Portugal.

Valcárcel Jiménez, M., Yumus, M., Schiele, T., Mues, A., & Niklas, F. (2024). Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany. JURE 2024, 24. - 28. June, Sevilla, Spain.

Schiele, T., Mues, A., Christner, N., Paulus, M., Wirth, A., Birtwistle, E., & Niklas, F. (2023). Sharing Morals: Moralisches Selbstkonzept, Teilverhalten und normative Einstellungen bei Kindern mit und ohne Geschwister. Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPS) 2023, 18. – 20. September, Kiel, Germany.

Mues, A., Wirth, A., Schiele, T., & Niklas, F. (2023). Förderung medienbezogener Kompetenzen pädagogischer Fachkräfte: Rotary4Kitas – Eine Interventionsstudie. Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPS) 2023, 18. – 20. September, Kiel, Germany.