Current dissertation topics

The Graduate School is currently engaged in a wide range of research projects that provide exciting insights into educational and developmental processes, including:

• Assessment, conditions, and effects of subject-integrated language support
• Vocabulary development in first grade
• Language support interventions in early stages of education with a special focus on grammar skills
• School effectiveness – A multi-level view of the impact structure of schools in Germany
• Disadvantaged schools – Effects of intensive support for learners throughout primary school
• Experiences of discrimination among students with a migration background in Germany
• Academic resilience in primary school
• Well-being in the school context
• Civic literacy and its resources
• The development of civic literacy during adolescence: Longitudinal findings on developmental trajectories, influencing factors, and implications for willingness to participate
• Acquisition of scientific propaedeutic skills in upper secondary school
• School contexts in childhood and adolescence and their (long-term) consequences across the lifespan
• Social and Psychological Characteristics in Adolescence and Life-Course Success. Investigations Across the Life Span
• Growing abroad: Students' daily experiences and their personal development during international mobility