Examinations are an essential part of the degree programme and can fulfil selective, didactic and motivational functions. Teachers who do not conduct examinations themselves also contribute to the acquisition and assessment of competences in the sense of constructive alignment. Aim of the subject area Examination and assessment is therefore to sensitise lecturers to the importance of university examinations in the overall learning process of students and to enable them to develop a repertoire of methods for designing and conducting examinations.

Counselling students is part of undergraduate teaching at universities and covers a very broad spectrum of both academic and structural issues. In order to be able to organise counselling sessions in an appropriate, appreciative, time-efficient and goal-oriented manner and to support students on their path to academic success within an appropriate framework, lecturers in the subject area of Counselling students develop an individual counselling approach based on professional standards.

Giving and receiving feedback is an essential part of teaching - between teachers and students as well as in peer-to-peer dialogue. By succeeding in engaging in an appreciative dialogue with all relevant stakeholders at the university, teachers promote the quality development of their own teaching in particular and of teaching at the entire university in general. To this end, they learn feedback and evaluationand evaluation procedures and develop adaptation options for their own teaching.