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.
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.
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.
Lecture Series with Prof. Dr. Sauro Civitillo
On April 18, Professor Sauro Civitillo from Utrecht University was a guest at the lecture series.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
