Virtual Research Environment for Research in the History of Education

The project targets the development of a virtual research environment (VRE) based on Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) for a collaborative analysis of comprehensive digitised text corpora and an exemplary sustained nesting into the professional community of researchers in the history of education.

ViWa – Visual Perception

Visual perception in children is known to serve as an early indicator of learning and achievement disorders. The project ViWa focused on the development of visual perception and its relationship to math precursor skills and social-emotional competencies in children aged four to ten years.

VokSi – App-based Vocabulary Learning

It is easier to learn vocabulary if the learners themselves become active. This could be by generating a prediction about the possible translation of the foreign language term or by simultaneously executing a suitable gesture. The objective of this project was to examine these learning activities and to take a closer look at the effects of their interaction.

West German Student Journals From the 1950s and 1960s. Student Journals as Artefacts of Secondary School Cultures (PAUSE)

The DFG-funded project “Student journals of the 1950s and 1960s in the Federal Republic of Germany: Artefacts of school culture and their change of relevance” focuses on student journals from 1949 until 1968 from the stock of the BBF | Research Library for the History of Education. Descriptive-statistical analyses succeeded individual case studies querying how the student journals were established, how they influenced and changed school culture in post-war times.

WieSeL – Knowledge, Application, Promotion: Self-Regulation Competence of Teachers

The WieSeL project deals with the self-regulatory competence of teachers. The focus is on identifying which aspects of teacher competence support teachers’ promotion of self-regulation of learning among their students.

WiNK – Knowledge in the Neighborhood of Kids

The project WiNK examined the development of thematic neighborhood effects and their relation to reading and verbal creativity.

Working in the Wikiversum

A series of workshops was held to work out how the DIPF's and especially BBF's digital holdings can be used, cited and linked more intensively in Wikipedia, Wikidata and other free collaborative platforms, and how the DIPF can provide technical support for this. A further project goal was to strengthen the transfer of knowledge to broader interest groups, to encourage exchange and active participation, and to render this measurable through the development of impact indicators

zEbra – Social Belonging in the Real and Digital World

The project zEbra examines the associations between the use of social media and well-being among children and adolescents. Measuring instruments are being developed that validly assess smartphone use of different social media platforms and the social interactions that take place online.

ZIB – Centre for International Student Assessment

The Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB) joins the implementation of the PISA studies in Germany and German research on international large-scale assessments.