A method for determining a signal offset between a crankshaft angle signal and a combustion chamber pressure signal in an internal combustion engine, in which an instantaneously measured combustion chamber pressure profile is compared to a calculated, modeled combustion chamber pressure profile. In a method in which the correction values of the signal offset may be ascertained in any operating state of the internal combustion engine, the instantaneously measured combustion chamber pressure profile is shifted with respect to the calculated, modeled combustion chamber pressure profile along a crankshaft angle for generating an artificial signal offset, and a reconstruction quality is determined from this shifted combustion chamber pressure profile in that, from the artificial signal offset along the crankshaft angle of the shifted instantaneously measured combustion chamber pressure profile, a reconstruction error is ascertained as a measure of the effective signal offset between the crankshaft angle signal and the combustion chamber pressure signal.