Activities and news from the Scientific Area of Expertise (WKF) "Research on Education and Schooling"
Under the umbrella of the Scientific Area of Expertise (WKF) "Research on Education and Schooling", its members carry out a variety of projects with partners from within and outside the WKF. News about the various activities resulting from this work, such as project progress and completion, publications, events and lectures, can be found here.
09/14/2026
IFS at the 54th DGPs Congress in Luxembourg
IFS at the 2026 DGPs Congress: Current research on teacher well-being, educational equity, and multilingualism in the classroom.
09/10/2026
Ulrich Ludewig Discusses PISA on the SWR Kultur Forum
On the SWR Kultur Forum, Ulrich Ludewig discusses the PISA decline and its implications for education policy with Nina Kolleck and Kai Maaz.
09/08/2026
From IGLU to PISA 2025: The Historic Low in Reading Literacy Does Not Come as a Surprise – But is Still Concerning
An analysis of PIRLS and PISA data provides a basis for contextualising the PISA 2025 reading literacy results.
06/23/2026
KoPaS presents findings on language support in all-day schooling
At the KoPaS closing event in Berlin, project results and materials on language-supportive teaching in all-day schools were presented.
06/23/2026
Tuesdays for Education on June 23 – Attitudes Toward Diversity in Society
An IFS study examines unconscious attitudes toward various stereotyped groups in society among key age groups.
06/02/2026
New Article published in Large-Scale Assessments in Education
The study investigates the relationship between academic optimism and fourth-grade students’ reading achievement over a period of five years.
05/29/2026
Ruben Kleinkorres at the Austrian Integration Advisory Council
Dr. Ruben Kleinkorres speaks about the educational success of children with a migration background in Germany.
04/30/2026
PHOENIX – Kick-off of the international Scientific Advisory Board
The PHOENIX project and its Scientific Advisory Board initiated their collaboration on April 28 with a digital kick-off meeting.
04/29/2026
BJEP-Article featuring Nele McElvany ranks among the top 10 in 2024
The article on “Resilience in Multicultural Classrooms” was among the 10 most cited articles in the British Journal of Educational Psychology in 2024.
