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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Cafeteria menus

To overview

Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Research Projects of Educational and Differential Psychology at TU Dortmund University

Topic: Intellectual giftedness

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A current and important topic in educational psychology is intellectual giftedness. The staff of the Department of Educational and Differential Psychology at TU Dortmund University combine a wide range of experience and expertise in giftedness research. For example, in cooperation with Detlef H. Rost, the founder and director of the Marburg Project for the Highly Gifted and the Gifted Diagnostic Counseling Center BRAIN, we investigate the subjective well-being of highly gifted adolescents and the career success of highly gifted adults on the basis of completely or largely unselected and accurately parallelized samples of highly gifted and averagely gifted individuals. Other research questions we have addressed relate to personality characteristics and motivational variables of gifted adolescents. In many cases, there are either no differences between the highly gifted and the averagely gifted or slight differences in favor of the highly gifted. With our research, we contribute to debunking myths and stereotypes about gifted individuals, e.g., as individuals with distinct social-emotional conspicuities. Closely related to this, we examine the extent to which teachers' perceptions of gifted students are shaped by stereotypes and how much knowledge teachers generally have about giftedness. Answering this question is of high practical relevance, as it may also influence the accuracy of teachers' diagnostic judgments in identifying gifted students. Teachers' giftedness diagnostic competencies, which factors moderate the accuracy of diagnostic judgments, and to what extent teachers' judgments are dependent on demonstrated school performance are among the other research topics we address. The question of how teachers confront various support measures for gifted students is also the subject of our research activities.

Contact persons: Dr. Linda Wirthwein, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Bergold and Prof. Dr. Ricarda Steinmayr