Research Groups
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With its Research Groups, CATALPA offers scientists excellent conditions to successfully push their research.
Attractively equipped with a full PhD position and a separate budget for research assistants and materials, CATALPA group leaders conduct independent research. At the same time, however, they remain embedded in strong networks. This means that they have sparring partners from different disciplines and career stages. They also gain visibility in the community, not least through our own science communication.
Teaching and continuing education
Through the faculties of the FernUniversität, they have the opportunity to offer independent teaching. Analogous to junior professors, they so have access to a wide range of personal qualification opportunities offered by the FernUniversität in Hagen.
The CATALPA (Junior) Research Groups are a crucial structure of the Research Center. They have a central role in driving forces of the innovative and dynamic collaboration in CATALPA.
After competitive selection procedures, three Junior Research Groups are currently occupied.
Research Group "Stereotype Threat"
The Research Group „Stereotype Threat“ investigates the influence of ability-related stereotypes on the academic success and social belonging of non-traditional students in digital distance education.
Junior Research Groups
EduNLP
The Junior Research Group „EduNLP“ investigates how automatic scoring algorithms for educational free-text tasks such as essays or short-answer questions can be used to give feedback to both learners and teachers.
Multimedia
The Junior Research Group „Mulitmedia“ investigates how learners control exploration and exploitation during interactive multimedia learning.
