Data base

Find out more about our research activities: Our data base provides you with a variety of research projects and different results.

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Profession-specific didactics in Switzerland – development of scientific skills

The overall objective of this project is to establish a competence centre for profession-specific didactics.

Institut
Berufsbildung
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Promotion of young researchers in the field of foreign language and plurilingual didactics

The aim is to develop a model for the promotion of young researchers that is strongly anchored in science and regional school practice.

Institut
Institute for Language Teacher Education
Leitung
Prof. Wilfrid Kuster

Youth laboratory at the Natural History Museum

The youth laboratory at the Natural History Museum St.Gallen enables children between 10 and 14 to explore the secrets of the natural world.

Institut
Institute for Science Teacher Education
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Robin
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Active in-class learning and learning success for all (evaluation ALLE) 

Educational research has shown that all pupils benefit greatly from high-quality teaching and lessons designed to facilitate effective learning.

Institut
Abgeschlossene Projekte
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Christian Brühwiler
Prof. Dr. Jan Hochweber
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ACCOMPAGNA

Within the ACCOMPAGNA project, students of the PHSG provide training and support to children who have had to flee their own countries.

Institut
Institute for Research into Teaching and Learning
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Sonja Bischoff
Prof. Dr. Christian Brühwiler
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Development of language-language curricular elements for the education of language teachers for lower secondary school level (ESCEAS)

This project is dedicated to developing a language-independent teacher training concept for language teaching at lower secondary school level. 

Institut
Institute for Language Teacher Education
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Effects of language exchange at primary school level

The aim of this project is to evaluate the effect of an exchange setting at primary school level in eastern and western Switzerland.

Institut
Institute for Language Teacher Education
Leitung
Seraina Paul
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How teaching assistants and teachers cooperate with each other during lessons (KoPrAss)

This research project examines how teachers and teaching assistants collaborate with each other.

Institut
Institute for Research into Teaching and Learning
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Franziska Vogt
Prof. Dr. Bea Zumwald
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Language support in everyday kindergarten activities using dialect and standard languages (SpriKiDS)

The project aims to compare the effects of dialect and standard language use and to examine the impact of language development support.

Institut
Institute for Research into Teaching and Learning
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Franziska Vogt
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STEM at schools

This project focuses on boosting pupils’ enthusiasm for the subjects of mathematics, IT, science and technology.

Institut
Institute for Science Teacher Education
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Robin
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Towards a common European framework of reference for language teachers

The project entails an analysis of existing instruments and reference works describing language teachers’ competences.

Institut
Institute for Language Teacher Education
Leitung
Prof. Wilfrid Kuster
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Youth in Eastern Switzerland

Youth, that is, the period between childhood and adulthood, has long been seen as a phase of life in its own right in modern societies.

Institut
Abgeschlossene Projekte
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Michael Beck
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Career paths of care professionals 

The ProCom study analyses the career paths of health care professionals and care professionals.

Institut
Abgeschlossene Projekte
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Enabling risk groups to successfully transition into vocational training (GÜRB) 

The project aims to optimise support services that facilitate these transitions by deriving recommendations from empirical data.

Institut
Abgeschlossene Projekte
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Christian Brühwiler
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Learning about mathematics (WILMA)

The objective of the research is to identify what characterizes didactic expertise in kindergarten-level mathematics teaching.

Institut
Institute for Research into Teaching and Learning
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Franziska Vogt
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Learning with rubrics (LERU)

The rubrics used set out the criteria for assessing different levels of in-lesson performance with regard to a specific field or subject.

Institut
Abgeschlossene Projekte
Leitung
Prof. Dr. Robbert Smit