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Advancing Science. Empowering Learners.

The Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology conducts research that makes teaching and learning more successful. It is supported in its research work by the Hector Foundation II.

The Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology provides pioneering answers to key questions in the educational system.

Our research is characterized by a collaborative and interdisciplinary, use-inspired research program that integrates teaching and learning at multiple levels.

The studies at the Hector Research Institute train the next generation of education experts and pave the way for an evidence-based educational system.

Science communication makes our research visible and utilizable and enables a constructive dialogue between science and practice.

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11.03.2025

Prof. Dr Elisabeth Kraus begins as new Professor of Methods of Empirical Educational Research

"I am fascinated by visualising connections within data"

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11.03.2025

Focus on Exchange at the LEAD Research Meeting

More than 70 LEAD Members get together in Tübingen

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27.02.2025

Educational Research for the Future

Third Funding Phase of the Scientific Monitoring of the Hector Children's Academies Launched

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82

Scientists from 17 nations

76

scientific publications per year

4.2

Million euro total budget (per year)

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Insights for the school of tomorrow

How do we make schools efficient and future-oriented? You can read the answers and other findings from empirical educational research in the online magazine schulmanagement.

 

In our magazine Bildungshorizonte, researchers from the Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research report clearly and concisely on their work and current topics in educational research.

 

Recent publications

  • Hou, R., Fütterer, T., Bühler, B., Bozkir, E., Gerjets, P., Trautwein, T. & Kasneci, E. (2024). Automated Assessment of Encouragement and Warmth in Classrooms Leveraging Multimodal Emotional Features and ChatGPT. 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.15310 

  • Kim, K., X. Liu, Isbell, D., Chen, X. (2024). A Comparison of Lab and Web-Based Elicited Imitation: Insights from Explicit-Implicit Knowledge and L2 Proficiency. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000214 

  • Sakaki, M., Ten, A., Stone, H. and Murayama, K. (2024). Role of Metacognitive Confidence Judgments in Curiosity: Different Effects of Confidence on Curiosity Across Epistemic and Perceptual Domains. Cognitive Science, 48: e13474. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13474  

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