News at the IFS

This article examines if primary school students' ratings of teaching differentiate between subjects and teachers.

Dr. Corey Savage from the University of Glasgow visits IFS for an exchange on civic literacy and civic education.

Presentation and discussion with Prof McElvany at the conference of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Philological Association.

Workshop on ‘Learning Analytics’ took place at the IFS with participants from all over Germany.

On September 12, the IGLU/PIRLS consortium met to discuss details of the field test for the next primary school reading survey “IGLU/PIRLS 2026”.

Congratulations to IFS researchers Pascal Alscher and Elisabeth Graf and Daniel Deimel from Uni DUE for the funding of their PostdocLab.

From September 16–19, researchers from all over the world came to Vienna for the DGPs Congress – IFS was involved with five contributions.

Jennifer Igler successfully completes her doctorate on the topic “Perception of teaching quality at primary education level”.

Using photos to study the impact of home libraries on children's academic achievement.

Around 300 schools in the Ruhr region receive information flyers on effective reading promotion in time for the start of school.

Dr. Alyssa Grecu and Laura Becher with contributions on teaching quality and school alienation at the conference for Empirical Pedagogical Research.

At the SPEAK network meeting, IFS researchers and school representatives discussed how successful practice transfer can be achieved.