Research on Instruction & Learning Lab - RILL
Research Unit Prof. Dr. Sarah Hofer
Bachelor or master thesis topics for psychology students (WiSe 25/26):
1) Study on the effects of the salience of students’ smartphones on learning
Potential research questions:
- Experimental variation of salience: Does the salience of students’ smartphones affect students’ learning ? e.g., via cognitive control and delayed gratification
- Influence of state vs. trait salience ?
- state salience: «alerts» plus physical presence of smartphone (experimentally manipulated)
- trait salience: prominence of smartphone in students’ everyday lives
2) Study with primary school students on learning by writing vs. cognitive load by writing
- Idea: Reduction of cognitive load by learning without Wirtin vs. learning by writing --- depending on individual prerequisites (e.g., sustained attentio)
- Dependent variable: memory performance
- For this project, good German language skills are required
3) Research Synthesis on different types of learning support (scaffolding)
à overview of different types of learning support that are distinguished in recent literature
If you are interested, please contact Sarah Hofer at: sarah.hofer@psy.lmu.de.
The research group Teaching-Learning Research (Dr. Sarah Bichler & Prof. Sarah Hofer) offers methodological consulting for students writing their theses at Faculty 11. If you have any questions or problems concerning your quantitative or qualitative research work, please contact us at any time via eMail: