ISA:Dig: Internal Degree Programme Audits Before the Background of Digitalisation

The project ISA:Dig "Internal Degree Programme Audits Before the Background of Digitalisation – Didactics in Higher Education as a Stakeholder in Programme Development and Evaluation" aims to develop and evaluate an audit procedure for degree programmes using an iterative approach.

Strategies for Skills Acquisition: Innovative Teaching Concepts in Teacher Training, digitally enhanced (SKILL.de)

Since 2016, in the project 'Strategies for Skills Acquisition: Innovative Teaching and Consultation Concepts in Teacher Training' (SKILL), scientists at the University of Passau have been working to close the gaps between scientific discipline, teaching methodology and educational sciences.

Teaching in the digital age: developing tuition together – school cooperation project in the project SKILL.de

The object of the SKILL school cooperation project is to support teaching staff in the implementation of their tuitional aims, with and via digital media, in such a way as to correspond to the individual development objectives of the school.

Know Your Impact through Action Research: Evidence-based Evaluation of University Teaching in SKILL.de

Evidence-based Evaluation, as a part of Accountability Movement, has already affected many institutions, i.e. governmental organizations, health care, corporations, etc. The same applies to Higher Education: society is asking for verification of the effectiveness and efficacy of instructional practices provided by instructors.

The image of China in German textbooks

Research question of the German-Chinese textbook project:

The research group aims to determine what ideas and knowledge about China German adolescents receive through textbook texts. Of particular interest is reconstructing the image of China that emerges from the selected textbooks.

ALGe: Adaptive learning tasks in the domain of history

The ALGe-project examines the links between learning tasks, task perception, and learners’ characteristics. The key question of this project is how to design learning tasks, which lead students to the use of deep learning strategies.

Differential teacher's attention to boys and girls in whole class interaction sequences

The relationship of gender to the quality and type of interaction in the mathematics classroom is a question that has concerned researchers for some time. Past studies have indicated that patterns of interaction can be gender-specific, despite individual teachers regarding themselves as teaching in a gender-neutral manner.

Graded standards and indicators for the development of competencies in teacher education

What should student teachers be able to do when they have completed their first school internship? What competencies can be expected of a student teacher at the end of the first teacher training phase?

Educational innovation rooms for teacher training

This project aims to promote skills in students and university professors for configuration of the 'digital turn' in the education sector. In teaching-and-learning laboratories, processes are analysed, researched and methodically further developed.

SKILL: Passau pilot project on the further development of teacher education

SKILL, which stands for 'Strategien zur Kompetenzentwicklung: Innovative Lehr- und Beratungskonzepte in der Lehrerbildung' ('strategies for competency development: innovative teaching and advice concepts in teacher education'), is a joint cross-faculty project of the University of Passau, aimed at further developing teacher education in collaboration with the Teacher Education Centre (German).

ALGe: Adaptive learning tasks in the domain of history

The ALGe-project examines the links between learning tasks, task perception, and learners’ characteristics. The key question of this project is how to design learning tasks, which lead students to the use of deep learning strategies.