Final theses

We are happy to supervise student research on the topics listed below (as of September 2023). If you are interested, please get in touch with the relevant contact person with a brief outline of your ideas.
Our research colloquium for final theses takes place at regular intervals. Here, students and supervisors discuss together and accompany the research process. Please contact us if you would like to take part.

Our guidelines for academic (final) theses at the Chair of Vocational Education will support you in your academic work. Among other things, you will find information on the research exposé as well as the structure and formalities of academic papers.

Subject areas

Hints

Supervisors

  • Assessment and development of professional skills in vocational education students
  • Recording mental models and effects of concept mapping in the diagnosis of motor vehicle disorders
  • Effects of inequalities in the education system
  • Entry requirements for Vocational Education students
  • Effective promotion of interest in the industrial-technical teacher training program
  • Evaluation of teaching quality

     
  • Review of the effects of vocational teaching


















on item 06.
Review, analysis and, if necessary, optimization of an existing questionnaire of a Vocational school center (BSZ)



 		 Prof. Dr. Stephan Abele
  • Competence-oriented performance assessment in vocational education and training
  • Design of teaching-learning arrangements in learning location cooperation
  • Discovery-based learning in vocational education through working with experiments
  • Historical approaches to engineering education at the TU Dresden
   Prof. Dr. Steffen Kersten
  • Inequalities at the transition to the vocational training system
  • Training trajectories and drop-outs
  • Skills development in vocational education and training
  • Heterogeneity in vocational education and training
  • Training quality
  • Monitoring and evaluation in vocational education and training

I supervise both literature-based and empirical work on the (educational sociology) topics listed.

  

Jennifer Schauer, M.A.
  • Lectures in educational sciences (BW2/3) from the perspective of the first, second and third phase of teacher training.
  • Recording and assessing the quality of interaction in youth welfare as part of practical vocational training












     
  • Importance of reflection in the block internship A

on item 01.
can be worked on in pairs, questionnaires or interviews
 

on item 02.
Possible approaches:

  • Interviews with teachers on what they observe during practical training in youth work (qualitative approach)
  • Creation of an instrument to record the quality of interaction (literature review; can be based on an existing instrument from the daycare sector; ideally only after 1./2.)
  • Checking the quality of the instrument (quantitative approach)

Dr. Peter Schulze
  • Lesson planning in vocational education
 Please contact me personally if you have your own suggestions for topics.

Dipl.-Berufspäd. Martin Ritter

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