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.

Social sciences workshop for early career researchers at IFS

"Experiments, quasi-experiments, and causality in social sciences: Matching methods" – Methods workshop for early career researchers.

Michael Becker hält vor einer Gruppe von Personen eine Workshop

Report of the Aktionsrat Bildung – Education and social cohesion

Aktionsrat Bildung presents report on "Education and social cohesion", in which Prof. McElvany participated as an expert for the primary school area.

Foto von Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany

Nele McElvany in The Economist on the German school system

Professor Nele McElvany talks about the challenges and potentials in the German school system in The Economist article.

Photo of Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany next to a screenshot of the article from The Economist

Lecture Series with Prof. Dr. Sauro Civitillo

On April 18, Professor Sauro Civitillo from Utrecht University was a guest at the lecture series.

Foto von Prof. Dr. Sauro Civitillo und Dr. Alyssa Grecu

Current IFS research presented at AERA in Philadelphia, USA

IFS researchers presented their findings at the AERA conference in Philadelphia, USA, the largest international gathering of education researchers.

Gruppenfoto von Sittipan Yotyodying, Jakob Schwerter und Justine Stang-Rabrig

Tuesdays for Education on 9.4. on the topic of school well-being

Almost half of primary school children experience physical violence at their schools.

Zwei Grundschulkinder schubsen ein weiteres Kind im Schulflur

Edited volume of the 7th Dortmund Symposium published

The edited volume deals with the topic "Evaluation of the education system – What insights do current school performance studies provide?"

Cover des Herausgeberbandes des 7. Dortmunder Symposiums der Empirischen Bildungsforschung

Prof. Dr. Silvia-Iris Beutel visited the German School Nairobi

In February 2024, Prof. Dr. Silvia-Iris Beutel has been invited to visit the German School Nairobi.

Gruppenfoto vom Besuch von Prof. Dr. Silvia-Iris Beutel bei der German School Nairobi

IFS represented with numerous contributions at the 11th GEBF in Potsdam

Thank you very much for the exchange at the 11th conference of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung 2024 at the University of Potsdam.

Gruppenfoto der IFS Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter auf der 11. GEBF-Konferenz