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Media pedagogical competence is critical for the modern-day adult educator. In the process of adult learning, both the use of digital media in the classroom and the transfer of knowledge in dealing with media are the basis for social participation and individual development that must be provided by teachers. However, at present little or no research has been conducted that assess media pedagogical competence of adult educators. Moreover, an instrument to measure media pedagogical competence was lacking. In order to redress these concerns, in the present paper an instrument for objectively measuring media pedagogical competence is designed and piloted with adult educators (n=622). The study provides the first results concerning objective measurement of adult educator media pedagogical competence.

The ongoing digitalization in the training sector produces new demands on the media‐didactical competence of trainers. We conducted an online survey of 279 trainers in Germany to investigate the relationships among media‐didactical competence, media‐didactical self‐efficacy, attitudes toward the use of digital media and the actual use of digital media in training. Furthermore, we compared trainers who attended a course on digital media with trainers who did not attend such a course. The analysis of the theoretically expected correlations between the variables resulted in not all hypotheses being accepted. The analysis of the group differences showed that the trainers who attended a course on digital media had higher media‐didactical competence and media‐didactical self‐efficacy scores and used digital media more often in training. There was no significant difference in negative attitudes. The implications for the promotion of the media‐didactical competence of trainers are discussed.

Zusammenfassung Die vorzeitige Beendigung von Bildungsmaßnahmen wird i. d. R. als Abbruch problematisiert. Zum Problem werden Weiterbildungsabbrüche besonders dann, wenn vorhandene Weiterbildungsinteressen nicht weiter realisiert werden können und/oder wenn damit ein grundsätzlicher Rückzug aus dem System Weiterbildung eingeleitet wird. In der deutschsprachigen Bildungsforschung (v. a. in der Hochschul-, Schul-und Berufsbildungsforschung) etabliert sich zunehmend der bereits weit verbreitete Begriff "Drop-out" als Bezeichnung für den Abbruch einer Bildungsteilnahme. In der Weiterbildungsforschung ist dieser Begriff jedoch weniger geläufig und es fehlen bisher einschlägige Studien zu Ursachen und Stellenwert des Phänomens Drop-out. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren dem bestehenden Bedarf an Grundlagenforschung und nehmen eine systematische Verortung des Phänomens im Kontext von Weiterbildung vor. Dazu erarbeiten sie zunächst, welches Verständnis von Drop-out in der Disziplin der Erwachsenenbildung gängig ist. Darüber hinaus verschränken sie den aktuellen K 32 S. Hoffmann et al. Stand der Forschung mit Perspektiven von elf zu dieser Thematik interviewten Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Weiterbildungsträgern und -verbänden. Vertieft werden diese Erkenntnisse durch eine Reflexion der Operationalisierung von Weiterbildungsabbrüchen im Nationalen Bildungspanel (NEPS). In einem Fazit werden die Ergebnisse aus Empirie und Theorie verdichtet und Implikationen für weitere (empirische) Forschungen aufgezeigt.Schlüsselwörter Weiterbildungsabbruch · Drop-out · Weiterbildungsverhalten · NEPS · Konstellationen · Experteninterviews Drop-out in further education-a linking of perspectives for the (re-)construction of the drop-out phenomenon Abstract The early termination of educational measures is usually critically discussed as "drop-out". The discontinuation of further education activities is considered a problem above all when existing interest in further education cannot be realized and/or when this initiates a categorical withdrawal from the system of further education. In educational research carried out in German-speaking countries (especially in research on university-, school-, and vocational education), the already wide-spread term "drop-out" is increasingly used as a synonym for the discontinuation of educational participation. In research on further education, however, this term is less common and, so far, no relevant studies have been conducted regarding the reasons for dropping out, the methods of dealing with this issue, or the importance of the drop-out phenomenon in continuing education. Against this background, the authors focus on the actual need for basic research and carry out a systematic categorization of the drop-out phenomenon in the context of further education. To this end, they first investigate which drop-out concept is most common in the field of adult education. They then link the present state of the art in research to perspectives formulated by eleven experts (represen...