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Project 1 : ADHD in the classroom

Prof. Dr. Hanna Christiansen (Clinical Children and Adolescent Psychology)

Prof. Dr. Malte Schwinger (Educational Psychology)

PhD Student: Robin O'Neill

The subproject “ADHD in the classroom“ of the RTG focuses on teachers’ expectation about children with ADHD (What expectations do they have? Which ones are hard to change? How do teachers’ expectations influence academic achievement of students with ADHD). After assessing those assumptions, the goal for the third stage of the project is analyse teacher’s reactions to children with ADHD in a virtual classroom. Before entering the classroom, all participating teachers will fill in the ADHD School Expectation (ASE) Questionnaire, that was developed in the first stage of the RTG, to assess teacher’s expectations and attitudes towards children with ADHD as well as their behavior intentions for classroom management. While in the VR classroom, their actual strategies will be assessed and compared to those self-reported. The project is thus located at the interface of clinical child and adolescent as well as educational psychology and will be jointly supervised by Prof. Dr. Hanna Christiansen (clinical child and adolescent psychology) and Prof. Dr. Malte Schwinger (educational psychology).

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