Time and place

Part 1: Seminar 'Development Research in Mathematics Education ‒ Selected Topics': Mo, 14-16h, Raum noch nicht bekannt, PH Freiburg
Part 2: Seminar 'Research Methods in Mathematics Education': Mo, 16-19h, Raum noch nicht bekannt, PH Freiburg
Part 3: Master's thesis seminar: Development and Optimisation of a Research Project in Mathematics Education

Teacher: Lecturers of the University of Education Freiburg
Language: in German

The three related courses of the module prepare students for an empirical Master thesis in mathematics didactics. The course is jointly designed by all professors at the PH with mathematics didactics research projects at secondary levels 1 and 2 and is carried out by one of these researchers. Afterwards, students have the opportunity to start Master thesis with one of these supervisors - usually integrated into larger ongoing research projects.

The first course of the module provides an introduction to strategies of empirical didactic research (research questions, research status, research designs). Students deepen their skills in scientific research and the evaluation of subject-specific didactic research. In the second course (in the last third of the semester) students are introduced to central qualitative and quantitative research methods through concrete work with existing data (interviews, student products, experimental data), students are introduced to central qualitative and quantitative research methods. The third course is an accompanying seminar for the Master thesis.

The main objectives of the module are the ability to receive mathematics didactic research in order to didactic research to clarify questions of practical relevance and to plan an empirical mathematics didactics Master thesis. It will be held as a mixture of seminar, development of research topics in groups and active work with research data. Recommended literature will be depending on the research topics offered within the respective courses. The parts can also be attended in different semesters, for example part~1 in the second Master semester and part~2 in the compact phase of the third Master semester after the practical semester.

Research in Mathematics Education