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Professorship of Educational and Developmental Psychology
Educational and Developmental Psychology
Professorship of Educational and Developmental Psychology 
research

Prof. Dr. Heiner Rindermann - Research Foci


 
  • Development and enhancement of cognitive competencies
     
  • Cross-cultural comparisons of cognitive competencies
     
  • Cognitive Competence and societal development (economy, politics, society, innovation)
     
  • Kindergarten quality and effects of preschool attendance
     
  • Comparison of psychometrics (intelligence/IQ) and Piaget (cognitive development as qualitative change)
     
  • Analysis of international comparative school achievement and intelligence studies: What is measured? What are the causes for differences between states, countries and cultures? What are the consequences of these differences?
     
  • Emotional competence / Intelligence
     
  • Developmental assessment
     
  • Science studies
     
  • Teaching evaluation in higher education / university evaluation / evaluation
     
  • Evaluation of schools and evaluation of programs for the gifted
     
  • Evaluation, university research, philosophy of science and sociology of science
     
  • Giftedness and intellectual giftedness, development and enhancement of giftedness
     
  • Assessment and prediction of performance/behavior in school, university and job
     
  • Intelligence, speed of information processing and problem solving
     
  • Self-concept and personality
     
  • Research methods (interrater reliability, longitudinal studies)
     
  • Education and school research
     
  • Evolutionary psychology