The department analyses individual and differential developmental processes in both formal and non-formal learning environments, adding an individual perspective to the DIPF’s scope of research.
About
The department focuses on the individual development of children in educational contexts. In the field of basic research, the crucial issue concerns individual prerequisites and conditions necessary for the development of successful learning, such as motivational and volitional dispositions as well as manifold cognitive competencies. Differential analyses of individual educational pathways are based on longitudinal studies.
In addition to the basic research of the department, practical applications focus on individual diagnostics and support in kindergarten and school: Diagnostic procedures are developed and standardised for assessing individual learning dispositions and learning disorders. Existing approaches of individual support programmes (e.g. acquistion of reading skills) and prevention of educational failure (e.g. language training) are evaluated. Part of our practical research is also designing and validating own approaches as well as the scientific monitoring of pilot projects.
The overall objective is to obtain theoretically and empirically based foundations for designing educational processes across the lifespan – with focus on early education – so that deeper insights can be gained into the potentials for development and the possibilities for changing individual behaviour and experiences.
Important activities in infrastructure and networking are brought together in the department:
- The coordination of the Leibniz Education Research Network,
- the coordination and laboratories of the Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA),
- the participation in the joint initiative Education Through Language and Writing and
- the participation in the joint initiative LONDI – The development of an online platform for diagnosis and remediation of children with learning disabilities.
Units
Cognitive Development
For the development of learning, change processes at different time levels play a crucial role. Our lab investigates the multivariate dynamics of such processes with empirical studies on the intraindividual variability of cognitive performance and emotional wellbeing, as well as relevant determinants, in everyday and school contexts.
Development of Successful Learning
Particular difficulties in acquiring written language and mathematics increase the risk of children's educational failure. The diagnosis, prevention and overcoming of such learning and performance difficulties, e.g. through individual support, is a central part of the research in this department unit.
IDeA-Coordination
At the IDeA Centre, the development and learning of children with educational risks is studied interdisciplinarily. The coordination is responsible for networking, public relations, events, membership promotion and administration of the centre and serves as a unit of the Scientific Board.
IDeA-Laboratories
Individualised Interventions
We develop psychological interventions that improve children’s educational prospects. To this end, we research how children acquire knowledge and how this process can be promoted. And we develop technologies that help integrate interventions into everyday life and promote self-regulated learning.
Management
Prof. Dr. Marcus HasselhornContact
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- BRISE – Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development
- BiSS-Transfer – Education Through Language and Writing
- CIDER III – College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research
- Campus Schools Frankfurt
- DiaS-K – Diagnostics of Self-Regulation in Preschool
- EAGLeS – English Acquisition in German Learning Disabled Students
- EMMA – The Role of Emotions and Metacognitive Processes for Goal Revision
- ExTra – Experiences during the Transition out of Upper Secondary Education
- FLINK – How to Read Fluently: Individual Intervention of Reading Competencies
- FePrax – Diagnostic Practice for the Purpose of Determining Special Educational Needs as well as Disparities between German Federal States within the Framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- GamA – Gamified Assessment
- GoThink – Really True? How Gestures Affect Logical Thinking in Children
- Hector – Scientific Support for the Hector Children's Academies in Hessen and Baden-Württemberg
- IDeA Taskforce Recruitment – Participation in Research Projects of the IDeA Centre
- INCLASS – Inclusion of Children on the Autism Spectrum in School
- InSel – Recognise Internalising Symptoms and Respond Professionally
- Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts Across the Lifespan
- LEGA – Elementary School Age Reading Strategies
- LONDI 2 – Implementation and Evaluation of the LONDI Platform for Diagnosis and Remediation of Learning Disorders
- LeA-Training – Learning Acceleration Training
- MeBis – Multilingualism in Educational Settings: Practices and Attitudes of Teachers, Parents and Children towards Multilingualism
- MotivO – Reading Motivation and Reading Achievement across Orthographies
- PERLE – Professional Vision of Early Mathematics in Daily Learning Situations
- PREDICT – Prediction Generation as a Tool to Activate Children’s Prior Knowledge and Improve Learning
- PROM3THEUS – Practical Orientation, Methodology, and Theory Development in Educational Research
- PROMPT – Optimizing Self-Regulated Learning Processes With Digital Prompts
- RABE 2 – Risk Factors and Consequences of Learning Difficulties up to Early Adulthood
- SchuMaS - Schule macht stark
- The Multidimensional Self-concept in School Contexts: Extending Empirical Findings
- UPWIND – Understanding and Improving Daily Cognitive and Affective Within-Child Dynamics in the School Context
- zEbra – Social Belonging in the Real and Digital World
Staff
- Rebecca Aissa, M.Sc., Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Chimezie Obioma Amaefule, Academic Staff, Individualised Interventions
- PD Dr. Katrin Arens, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Friederike Blume, Post-doc Researcher, Cognitive Development
- Prof. Dr. Janin Brandenburg, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Jasmin Breitwieser, Academic Staff, Individualised Interventions
- Prof. Dr. Garvin Brod, Head of Unit, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Nina Brück, Coordinator, Development of Successful Learning
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Büttner, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Verena Diel, Dipl.-Psych., Officer, Education and Human Development
- Dr. Minja Dubowy, Coordinator, Development of Successful Learning
- Prof. Dr. em. Lutz Eckensberger, Emeritus, Education and Human Development
- PD Dr. Jan-Henning Ehm, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Anne Fischbach, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Elena Galeano-Keiner, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Zoe Gallagher, Assistant, IDeA-Coordination
- Dr. Sabrina Geyer, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Katharina Grunewald, Assistant, Leibniz Research Network
- Dr. Katharina Grunwald, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Christin Güldemund, M.A., Academic Staff, Education and Human Development
- Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn, Director, Education and Human Development
- Elfriede Holstein, M.Sc., Doctoral Candidate, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Sina Huschka, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Andrea Irmer, Academic Staff, Cognitive Development
- Fenke Kachisi, M.Sc., Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Maike Knodt, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Sebastian Korinth, Academic Staff, IDeA-Laboratories
- Andrea Kramer, M.Sc., Associated Researcher, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Lucas Lörch, Academic Staff, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Patrick Lösche, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Jelena Marković, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Katharina Merz, Assistant, IDeA-Coordination
- Leonie Mouret, Academic Staff, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Telse Nagler, Post-doc Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Gabriele Naumann-Dietzsch, Assistant, Cognitive Development
- Theresa Nett, M.A., Assistant, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Andreas Neubauer, Associated Researcher, Intensive Longitudinal Data
- Lea Nobbe, Doctoral Candidate, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Björn Rump, Head of Unit, IDeA-Laboratories
- Marisa Rüsenberg, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Aamir Sajjad, Software Engineer, IDeA-Laboratories
- Mirijam Schaaf, M.Sc., Doctoral Candidate, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Martin Schastak, Academic Staff, Cognitive Development
- Prof. Dr. Florian Schmiedek, Head of Unit, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Alexandra Schmitterer, Associated Researcher, Education and Human Development
- Theresa Serratore, Doctoral Candidate, Cognitive Development
- Carolyn Seybel, M.A., Academic Staff, Education and Human Development
- Rebecca Silva von Heesen, Visiting Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Anne Sosin, Associated Researcher, Intensive Longitudinal Data
- Alexander Stiewe, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Maria Theobald, Post-doc Researcher, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Kathleen Thomas, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Cora Titz, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Linda Visser, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Hanna Wagner, Dipl.-Psych., Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Susanne Weber, Dipl.-Psych., Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Kathrin Weber-Rauland, Coordinator, Leibniz Research Network
- Leonie Weindorf, M.Sc., Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Lena Wieland, Academic Staff, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Annett Wilde, Coordinator, IDeA-Laboratories
- Dr. Wolfgang Woerner, Associated Researcher, Education and Human Development
- Dr. Jeanette Ziehm-Eicher, Head of Unit, IDeA-Coordination
