News at the IFS
05/24/2024
ERASMUS+ project presented at Global Gallery
Carina Schreiber, Marion Peitz and Dr. Nadine Sonnenburg presented the ERASMUS+ project as part of the Global Gallery.

05/24/2024
Pascal Alscher – Dissertation successfully defended
Pascal Alscher successfully completes his doctorate on civic literacy in adolescence.

05/21/2024
IFS Lecture Series on May 16 with Professor Frederick de Moll
On May 16, Professor Frederick de Moll gave a lecture on "Non-cognitive dispositions in childhood and adolescence".

05/14/2024
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.

05/10/2024
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.

05/08/2024
Paper published in Technology, Knowledge and Learning
Article "Voluntary E-Learning Exercises Support Students in Mastering Statistics" von Jakob Schwerter and Taiga Brahm published in journal

05/07/2024
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

05/07/2024
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.

04/29/2024
IFS Lecture Series on April 25 with Professor Charlott Rubach
On April 25, Professor Charlotte Rubach presented "New horizons for teacher training" at the IFS lecture series

04/25/2024
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.

04/22/2024
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.

04/22/2024
Kickoff meeting projekt LeseKI:DS at the Vodafone Foundation
Lese-KI:DS is designing an evidence-based reading program in which children read AI-generated and personalized texts.





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