Projects

EAGLeS
The EAGLeS project focuses on the acquisition of written language skills when learning English as a foreign language in Years 5 and 6. It will look for systematic differences between children with reading and/or spelling difficulties and those without. This will be followed by the development and validation of an English diagnostic procedure.

EDUCARE
The research project EDUCARE covers two main subjects: childhood and educational inequalities.

EDUCAREplus
The research project aims at a better understanding of the persisting social inequality in children’s school success. The main focus is on socioeconomic differences in attitudes, beliefs, and practices of children, parents, and educators with regard to education and care in early and middle childhood.

EiKlar
The aim of the project is to use neurophysiological measures to better understand cognitive, affective and behavioural teaching-learning processes in the classroom and to relate them to different teaching methods and quality characteristics.

elbe
The project elbe addressed the cooperation of teachers and parents, focusing in particular on parental counseling.

ELF int.
The project ELF int. aims to analyze the procedure for estimating length with a view to accuracy in an international comparison.

EMiL
The project EMiL analyzed the importance of social and ethnic characteristics of children in primary school age in the German educational system.

EMMA
The EMMA project investigates what emotions children report after failures, how children adjust their goals after failures, and the role of emotions and evaluation of failure in goal adjustment.

erStMaL
The erStMaL project is a long-term study that investigates the development of mathematical thinking in children from kindergarten until the second grade of elementary school by using mathematical situations of play and exploration.

ESel
We use meta-analyses and systematic reviews to investigate the effectiveness and conditions for success of self-regulation training. The meta-analyses focus on different training features (e.g. use of learning diaries) or different target groups (e.g. learners with ADHD).