Our research focuses on various topics in empirical educational and social research.

Inclusion and inclusive school development

• Inclusion-related professional development and training for school staff
• Multidisciplinary collaboration in inclusive schools

Professional practice and professional competencies of teachers

• Multiple goal regulation and goal conflicts in educational contexts
• Modeling and measuring competencies in the area of inquiry-based learning
• Determinants of research competence among prospective teachers

Motivation and lifelong learning

• Motivation in initial, continuing, and professional development
• Social inequality in educational participation

Experimental and idiographic-nomothetic approaches in empirical educational research