Projects
CatMo – Arena
Category learning tasks are experimental paradigms used to study how humans acquire and apply categorical knowledge. Participants learn to classify multi-feature stimuli into categories without being explicitly told the underlying rules. Performance in these tasks provides insight into processes of generalization, abstraction, and memory.
CHAT2TRANSITION
The project examines the emergence and consequences of educational decisions at the transition from primary to secondary school. It focuses on improving the information available to families and teachers. A multilingual chat assistant for families and a reflection program for teachers aim to reduce social and migration-related inequalities in educational outcomes.
Children’s Worlds
An international study of material, social, and cultural conditions of a good life and opportunities of education and participation from children’s and youth’s point of view.
ChiParNet
The ChiParNet project examines how children and parents mutually influence each other’s social networks. Instead of focusing solely on parental influence, ChiParNet explores how children’s friendships also shape their parents’ social worlds. For this purpose, children of various ages and their parents are surveyed a total of three times.
CLaB
This interdisciplinary research project investigates systematically Child Language Brokering (CLB) – informal translation practices by multilingual students – in German-speaking schools. Three sub-studies explore children’s and teachers’ perspectives on CLB, its interactional patterns, and its educational potential. The aim is to collaboratively develop approaches to translingual didactics and make them applicable to everyday school practice.
COINS
The aim of the COINS project is to identify key features of instruction-sensitive test items that can be taken into account in the development of standardised performance tests.
DaZ ab 6
The role of explicit language knowledge in learning German for career changer at schools and for young refugees
DAZHOCHZWEI
The project DAZHOCHZWEI is a cooperation between the Professorship for German as a Second Language (Goethe University, Prof. Dr. Petra Schulz), the Ministry of Education, Hesse, and the Teacher Academy, Hesse. DAZHOCHZWEI aims at implementing a linguistically based language training for children into the (continuing) education program for primary school teachers in Hesse. The project […]
DELTA
In the project DELTA we apply a working memory training with elementary school children. We investigate the impact of children’s daily experiences on training success, with a focus on motivation, well-being, and sleep on training days.
DERET
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of errors in spelling, to allow different levels of analyses for a heterogeneous population of users.