Education and Human Development
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.
Department Units
Development of Successful Learning
Which capabilities contribute to successful learning during childhood? What are the developmental trajectories of these capabilities and how can we achieve their improvement? To provide answers to these questions the developmental changes, contributions to the learning outcomes as well as the modifiability of cognitive (e.g. attention control, functions of working memory, strategies of learning, domain-specific precursors, previous knowledge), as well as motivational (self-concept, intrinsic motivation) and volitional (self-regulation, action control) capabilities are scrutinised.
Cognitive Development
Processes of change at different time levels play an important role in the study of the development of learning across the lifespan. These processes of change and their multivariate dynamics are conceptually analysed. The research team develops and evaluates statistical models for repeated measuring at different time levels and conducts empirical studies of intraindividual variability of working memory performance and their determinants.
Individualised Interventions
How can we support children at risk of academic failure? Can educational technology help to integrate individualised training programmes in the daily routine of primary schools? The research group investigates cognitive factors that determine the success of training programmes and tests them in randomised controlled studies. A key focus of the group lies on developing and testing methods to successfully activate prior knowledge in children with different prerequisites for learning.
Intensive Longitudinal Data
The Emmy Noether research group Intensive Longitudinal Data in Psychology and Education pursues particularly two goals: First, processes of socio-emotional adaptation in educational contexts (e.g., during the transition from secondary to tertiary education) and developmental contexts (e.g., in families’ everyday lives) are examined in empirical studies using ambulatory assessment methods. Second, statistical methods for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data are being developed.
IDeA-Center: Coordination and Laboratories
IDeA is an interdisciplinary research center that investigates learning and developmental processes of children up to the age of twelve with a specific focus on children at risk of academic failure. The center’s coordinating office facilitates networking between the approximately 150 members, organises events, and runs programmes for promoting young scientists. The laboratory unit enables a wide variety of behavioural and neurocognitive studies. The spectrum of methods used ranges from paper-and-pencil and computer-assisted cognitive tests to eye-tracking, EEG, and functional and structural imaging.
Management
Director
Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn, Development of Successful Learning
Heads of Units
Prof. Dr. Florian Schmiedek, Cognitive Development
Prof. Dr. Garvin Brod, Individualised Interventions
Dr. Andreas Neubauer, Intensive Longitudinal Data
Dr. Jeanette Ziehm, IDeA Coordination
Contact
Projects
- BRISE – Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development
- BiLTex – Bilingual Learning Settings to Foster Text Comprehension
- BiSS-Transfer – Education Through Language and Writing
- CIDER III – College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research
- 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
- GeoChild – Development of Geometrical Competences in Early Childhood
- Hector Qualification – Qualification of the Coordinators for Hector Children's Academies in Hesse
- Hector – Formative Evaluation of Hector Children’s Academies
- Hector-Core-Courses – Development and Evaluation of a Support Programme for Particularly Gifted Children in Second Grade
- 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
- KERMIT – Cooperation with Teachers in Research on Education
- 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
- MORAL – Socio-Moral Development of Children and Adolescents
- 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
- 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
- Stereo-no-GO – Gender- and Origin-based Inequalities in Programs for Gifted Children
- 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
Staff
- 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
- Dr. Janin Brandenburg, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Kristina Brasnic, Assistant, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Jasmin Breitwieser, Academic Staff, Individualised Interventions
- Prof. Dr. Garvin Brod, Head of Unit, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Nina Brück, Coordinator, Development of Successful Learning
- Verena Diel, Officer, Education and Human Development
- Elfriede Diestel, Doctoral Candidate, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Judith Dirk, Associated Researcher, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Minja Dubowy, Coordinator, Development of Successful Learning
- Prof. Dr. em. Lutz Eckensberger, Emeritus, Education and Human Development
- Florens Eckert, Assistant, IDeA-Coordination
- Dr. Jan-Henning Ehm, Post-doc Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Theresa Eicher, Doctoral Candidate, Cognitive Development
- Nadine Eikelschulte, Assistant, 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, Leibniz Research Network
- 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, Academic Staff, Education and Human Development
- Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn, Director, Education and Human Development
- Dr. Sina Huschka, Associated Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Andrea Irmer, Academic Staff, Cognitive Development
- Fenke Kachisi, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Maike Knodt, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Sebastian Korinth, Academic Staff, IDeA-Laboratories
- Andrea Kramer, Associated Researcher, Cognitive Development
- Lucas Lörch, Academic Staff, Individualised Interventions
- Dr. Patrick Lösche, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Filip Marinkovic, Associated Researcher, IDeA-Laboratories
- Katharina Merz, Assistant, IDeA-Coordination
- Leonie Mouret, Academic Staff, Intensive Longitudinal Data
- Rebecca Müller, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Telse Nagler, Post-doc Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Gabriele Naumann-Dietzsch, Assistant, Cognitive Development
- Dr. Andreas Neubauer, Head of Unit, Intensive Longitudinal Data
- Lea Nobbe, Doctoral Candidate, Individualised Interventions
- Pius Reuling, Doctoral Candidate, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Björn Rump, Head of Unit, IDeA-Laboratories
- Aamir Sajjad, Software Engineer, IDeA-Laboratories
- Radojka Savic, Assistant, Development of Successful Learning
- Mirijam Schaaf, 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, Individualised Interventions
- Carolyn Seybel, Academic Staff, Education and Human Development
- Rebecca Silva von Heesen, Visiting Researcher, Development of Successful Learning
- Anne Sosin, Doctoral Candidate, 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, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Susanne Weber, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Kathrin Weber-Rauland, Coordinator, Leibniz Research Network
- Leonie Weindorf, 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. Jelena Zaric, Academic Staff, Development of Successful Learning
- Dr. Jeanette Ziehm-Eicher, Head of Unit, IDeA-Coordination
- Prof. Dr. Karin Zimmer, Associated Researcher, Leibniz Research Network