Development and interaction of instructional and personal potentials
How can the students' learning yield be optimised?
Through what it offers – for instance the type of instructional design – school can contribute a great deal to optimisation. However, the effectiveness of an offer is also always dependent on how students can and wish to use these offers.
The research group focuses on both aspects – «quality of offer» and «quality of use» – as well as their interaction with a view to the learning yield of the students, especially in the area of languages (first language, second language and foreign languages).
The interdisciplinary-oriented research group – linguistics, educational psychology, media pedagogy – is interested in questions such as:
- With which subject-didactical approaches and which teaching aids can the effectiveness of instruction be potentially increased? How are subject-didactical approaches implemented and applied in practice?
- Which characteristics of students facilitate the use of a school offer or render it more difficult? What distinguishes a school offer under which unfavourable prerequisites of use on the part of the students develop positively?
- How do more motivated and less motivated students use didactic settings? Which effects are produced by which instructional design in which students?