The research area "Methodology and Didactics in Special Needs Education" deals with the evidence-based design of teaching and support for pupils with learning and developmental difficulties in inclusive and special educational contexts. The focus is on questions of diagnostics and the identification of special educational support needs as well as their individual and structural determinants in the education system.
A specific focus is on inclusive school development at the various levels of the education system. Currently, the focus is particularly on the transfer and scientific monitoring of new models of school assistance that further develop individual 1:1 assignments in favour of infrastructural, systemically anchored forms of support.
The department has an education economics profile and focuses on questions of needs-based management, efficiency and resource utilisation in the education system. This includes, in particular, evaluation studies on educational innovations and educational policy reforms, such as the impact of systemic support structures such as school assistance or multi-professional co-operation.
Methodologically, the department combines quantitative and qualitative approaches as well as econometric methods with a focus on causal inference and the analysis of official education data.
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