Professor Michael Becker starts at the IFS
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The IFS welcomes Michael Becker! With the beginning of March, he has taken up one of the professorships at the IFS. His research group “Empirical Educational Research with a focus on Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts” will address the effects of institutional conditions and macrostructures on the cognitive and psychosocial development in primary and secondary education. Moreover, the team will focus on the effects of individual factors, institutional trajectories and their interaction on the development during one’s lifespan. Finally, the research group will study the changes and reforms of the structures in the educational system and the resulting consequences.