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In research and teaching, our Institute of Educational Science contributes to promoting educational processes and qualifying people for activities in education. In research, we investigate conditions, processes, and outcomes of teaching and learning within and outside educational institutions from the perspectives of educational psychology and developmental psychology.
In teaching, we offer the Bachelor’s degree program in Educational Science and Educational Management, the Master’s degree program in Educational Science – Teaching and Learning, and the educational science courses in the two-major Bachelor’s degree with teaching option and in the Master of Education. Our degree programs regularly rank in the top group in CHE rankings. All degrees are taught in German.
Latest publications
Voss, T. (2022). Not useful to inform teaching practice? Student teachers hold skeptical beliefs about evidence from education science. Frontiers in Education, 7, 976791.
Wittwer, J. (2022). Wirksame Lehr-Lern-Prozesse im Unterricht fördern: Wie kann das aus instruktionspsychologischer Sicht gelingen? SEMINAR, 43, 9–21.
Zeeb, H., Hunecke, J., & Voss, T. (2022). Teachers’ dysfunctional feedback to students from immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds: A pilot study. Social Psychology of Education.
Golke, S., Steininger, T., & Wittwer, J. (2022). What makes learners overestimate their text comprehension? The impact of learner characteristics on judgment bias. Educational Psychology Review. Advance online publication.
Wimmer, L., Currie, G., Friend, S., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). Opening the closed mind? Effects of reading literary fiction on need for closure and creativity. Creativity Research Journal.
Roelle, J., & Nückles, M. (2022). Zwei auf einen Streich? Der Nutzen der Integration von Abrufübung in Aufgaben zur Verständnisförderung. Unterrichtswissenschaft, 50, 53-73.
Voss, T., Zachrich, L., Fauth, B., & Wittwer, J. (2022). The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar. Learning and Instruction, 80, 101614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101614
Steininger, T. M., Wittwer, J., & Voss, T. (2022). Classifying examples is more effective for learning relational categories than reading or generating examples. Instructional Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09584-7
Kulgemeyer, C., & Wittwer, J. (2022). Misconceptions in physics explainer videos and the illusion of understanding: An experimental study. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-022-10265-7
Wimmer, L., Currie, G., Friend, S., & Ferguson, H. J. (2022). The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition: Two experiments following a multi-method approach. Scientific Study of Literature.
Nückles, M. (2021). Investigating visual perception in teaching and learning using eye-tracking methodology: Rewards and challenges of an innovative research paradigm. Educational Psychology Review. 33, 149–167.
Wittwer, J. (2021). Autismus: Ein Überblick über Lernvoraussetzungen und Fördermaßnahmen. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie [Open Access].