Research

Here you find information on current as well as completed doctoral projects on Educational Psychology.

Julia Levin

Cyberbullying and hate speech on the Internet are current phenomena that can lead to political radicalization, not least among young refugees.

This international cooperation project seeks to develop effective support strategies to counter the negative the negative effects of conflicts in the digital space.

Wendy Symes, Stephanie Lichtenfeld

Individual differences in control and value appraisals lead to exam-related emotions that can be assigned to different profiles.

This longitudinal project examines changes in profile membership over the course of one school year and its relation to further individual factors.

Stephanie Lichtenfeld

Many students' enjoyment of learning decreases over the years of schooling, whereas boredom and anxiety remain stable.

This project examines the variables that might influence those emotions.

Stephanie Lichtenfeld

Emotions may spur or dampen achivement. Whether these emotions are regulated or not, depends on the beliefs people hold regarding the malleability of emotions.

This project investigates such implicit beliefs in primary school students and their link to school wellbeing.

Jan Retelsdorf

Students often have trouble understanding complex expository texts.

In this project, we investigate for the school subject chemistry how using certain kinds of texts may facilitate this understanding - and whether the benefit of these measures depends on certain personal characteristics.

Nadine Cruz Neri, Florian Klückmann

LATIC is a Linguistic Analyser for Text and Item Characteristics that enables the analyses of texts and items at different levels.

Francesca Muntoni, Jan Retelsdorf

"Girls are bad in maths. Boys have difficulties in reading."

Studies found that the expectations of teachers  can influence their students' achievements, both positively and negatively. Can professional knowledge of teachers reduce the negative effects of these expectations? In order to investigate this, we test and survey elementary school classes and their teachers.

Telse Iwers, Iweta Naujokaite

What are the characteristics of classrooms that include pupils with migration background? How can teacher training students capture the special aspects, success conditions and conflict situations while sitting in on such classrooms?

As part of the integrated school internship, we compile, implement and evaluate observation criteria.

Telse Iwers

How do internal conflicts arise? And how can they be resolved?

To answer these questions, we developed the concepts of observational attentional perception (KAW) and introvision.

Further research projects examine the benefit of these methods for educational practices.

Telse Iwers

• What did I experience in which way?
• How did my counterpart experience it?
• Does my acting agree with my self perception and my ocupational profile?

During supervision, we reflect and evaluate practical experiences in school based on such questions.

Jan Retelsdorf

It is more difficult to understand well structured texts if you have prior knowledge??

Understanding texts is essential, also for learning in sciences. To this end, both characteristics of readers and text characteristics are relevant. Combined in different ways, these characteristics can lead to various degrees of successful reading.

This project examines systematically how well texts with certain characteristics are understood by secondary school students with different person characteristics.

Jan Retelsdorf

Does school prepare adequately for an apprenticeship? And is this preparation decisive for a successful apprenticeship?

These questions have been asked since the first large-scale assessments took place, in particular with regard to mathematics and science subjects.

ManKobE accompanies over 3000 trainees in occupations that require mathematical and scientific proficiency from the beginning of their apprenticeship until one year after its conclusion. In the process, we compare the development of mathematical and scientific proficiency with the abilities brought along from school.