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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: Test fairness regarding gender

A hand holding a pen fills out a survey questionnaire.

Gender differences in cognitive abilities are among the most discussed and researched topics in differential psychology. Especially when performance tests are the basis for important decisions in practice - for example, in personnel selection - gender-fair measurement is indispensable. Ensuring gender-fair measurement is also essential for research, for example, in quantifying gender differences or in identifying factors that influence the emergence of gender differences. In the Department of Educational and Differential Psychology at the TU Dortmund University, we are therefore investigating, in cooperation with colleagues from Heidelberg, Lüneburg, and Marburg, to what extent different measurement instruments for assessing cognitive performance as well as different test types (e.g., speed vs. power tests) actually enable gender-fair measurement. In a recent study with almost 1000 adolescents published in the journal Intelligence, we were able to show that a substantial part of the items from the knowledge test of the Intelligence Structure Test 2000 R showed differential item functioning, which favored boys in the measurement. When all items with a bias were removed, the gender difference was reduced by more than half. Hereby, we were able to make an important contribution to explaining the repeatedly replicated better performance of boys or men in general knowledge tests. Gender differences in favor of boys or men in numerical intelligence have been found just as frequently, although the size of this difference depends particularly strongly on the recording method. We are currently investigating to what extent and why time restrictions in numerical intelligence instruments prevent girls, but not boys, from reaching their full performance potential.

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