Projects
Adaptive Education
To the project browserMeBis
MeBis is a project examining the handling of and attitudes towards multilingualism in children, parents and teachers in primary education settings, particularly concerning the use of several languages, for learning at home and reading out to children, but also during lessons with a particular focus on grammar and language comparisons.
meRLe
The meRLe project explores ways to promote German reading skills using multilingual-sensitive reciprocal teaching in primary education.
InSe
This project investigates the extent to which tests and test items are capable of capturing effects of instruction.
PREDICT
This project evaluates the potential of predictions generated by students to improve their learning. Further, it investigates the mechanisms that determine its success and asks whether there are age-related differences in its effectiveness.
SLICES
The project SLICES examines, whether the thin slices technique can be used to efficiently study educational processes in very large samples, such as they are common in large scale assessments. The study focuses on the “constructive handling of student errors” in the classroom, an indicator of teaching and learning that is considered to be of particular importance for adaptive interactions with heterogeneous groups of learners.
LeA-Training
The focus of project LeA-Training is to investigate a reading fluency training program. The project aims at identifying the underlying mechanisms resulting in reading improvement to effectively implement the training for children with reading difficulties.
PHIactio
PHIactio characterizes the relation between the beliefs of pre-service teachers and the quality of teaching of given miniature lessons.
SelF
The project SelF deals with the implementation of specific self-regulatory strategies in different areas of application.
Proliefs
The project Proliefs focuses on teachers’ beliefs as one important aspect of teachers’ professional competence that influences their instructional behavior.
IPhaMat
The project IPhaMat examined how students of mathematics for primary schools, teachers in the preparatory service, and practising primary school teachers take up an innovative teaching approach to cooperative learning.