Three working groups (professorships) of the department of Psychology at the School of School of Social Sciences represent the field of Education Sciences at the University of Mannheim. All three professors work intensively on different questions dealing with learning and teaching in different contexts (schools, higher education institutions).
The chair of Psychology of Education works (inter alia) on research questions relating to learning and instructing, for example, when it comes to designing multimedia units of instruction.
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The Chair of Educational Psychology works, inter alia, on questions related to motivation, for example on the kind of goals people are working on.
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The junior professor of Quality of Instruction in Heterogeneous Contexts works, for example, on research questions related to the consequences of performance differences in pupils and how teachers deal with these consequences.
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