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.

Contribution at ECER Plus 2022: Linking school ICT equipment and teacher ICT self-efficacy to teaching organization and achievement evaluation in German schools during the pandemic

Sittipan Yotyodying presented current results from the research field of digitization in education at ECER Plus 2022.

Dunkelblauer Schriftzug ECER 2022 Yerevan and ECER Plus vor einem Stadtfoto

Article published in Learning and Instruction

This article examines text-based interest in relation to text features and reading comprehension in elementary school boys and girls.

IFS represented at the 17th International Conference on Motivation (ICM) in Dresden

The IFS will present itself with two symposia and four other contributions at the ICM.

New journal article published in Behavior Research Methods

The article deals with the relationship between word frequency and item difficulty in knowledge tests.

Schwarzer Schriftzug What makes domain knowledge difficult? Word usage frequency from SUBTLEX and dlexDB explains knowledge item difficulty

5th volume of the editorial series “IFS-Bildungsdialoge” published

The current volume focuses on “School intervention: how can science-practice transfer succeed?”

Weißes Buchcover mit Abbildung einer Lehrkraft mit Schüler*innen und schwarzen Schriftzug Schulische Intervention - Wie kann Wissenschaft-Praxis-Tansfer gelingen?

6th volume of the editorial series Dortmund Symposium of Empirical Educational Research published

The latest edited volume presents current findings and discourses from school-based intervention and implementation research.

Cover des Herausgeberwerks 6. Dortmunder Symposium der Empirischen Bildungsforschung: „Optimierung schulischer Bildungsprozesse – What works? “

New article published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

This study illustrates the relative importance of different teaching quality facets in civics and emphasizes the importance of cognitive activation.

Schwarzer Schriftzug Civic Education, Teaching Quality and Students’ Willingness to Participate in Political and Civic Life: Political Interest and Knowledge as Mediators

New journal article in Teaching and Teacher Education published

Professional well-being of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to key resources & challenges.

Cover der Publikation Teachers’ occupational well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of resources and demands

Promotion of Young Scientists at IFS – Doctoral Conference on July 13

Exchange on current status of dissertation projects.

Ein Doktorhut liegt auf einem kleinen Bücherstapel neben einer zusammengerollten Urkunde vor einem grünen Hintergrund