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.

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BildungsTandems: Insight into the coaches' in-depth training

The picture shows participants in the BildungsTandems program coaching each other

Tuesdays for Education on May 14 on the topic of linguistic diversity

Primary school children with a non-German family language show clear reading literacy deficits, but often receive no support.

Das Foto zeigt den Blick einer Lehrkraft auf mehrere Schüler*innen, die ihre Hand heben und aufzeigen. Darunter befindet sich der Schriftzug "Tuesdays for Education".

Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2026 started

International study on reading literacy in fourth grade has started – 60 participating countries in the IGLU/PIRLS 2026 large scale assessment.

Zwei Kinder schauen sich im Klassenzimmer zusammen etwas auf ihrem Tablet an

IFS Lecture Series on May 2 with Professor Meng-Jung Tsai

On May 2, Professor Meng-Jung Tsai presented "Using Robotics STEAM Curricula to Enhance Students’ 21st Century Competencies" at the IFS lecture series

Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany, Professorin Meng-Jung Tsai & Dr. Sittipan Yotyodying in der digitalen Ringvorlesung über Zoom

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