Biopsychological teaching and learning laboratory

In order to design analogue and digital learning environments that are geared toward achieving multidimensional educational goals, it is important to consider the individual learning requirements of the students and the situation-specific quality of the experience that these learning environments will provide.

In the biopsychological teaching-learning laboratory of the research on teaching unit, the focus is on investigating how teaching can appropriately address different motivational and emotional learning requirements of students and to what extent heterogeneous characteristics interact with different motivational and emotional characteristics and developmental processes. We use technology-based survey and design tools that are embedded in an experience-sampling approach.

These tools make it possible to examine the interplay between individual motivational and emotional learning requirements and individualised, adaptive learning environments and their effects on situation-specific subjective and physiological (e.g., skin conductance, heart rate) qualities of experience as well as the achievement of multidimensional educational goals. At the same time, diagnostic competencies, subjective and physiological qualities of experience, as well as teachers' orientations and attitudes are considered. In addition, motivational and emotional transmission processes between teachers and students can be investigated by analysing eye movement data (mobile eye tracking).

Students in teaching-related Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes are given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with these methods and apply these methods to their own research (e.g., as part of their final theses).