News at the IFS

05/27/2024

Dr. Birgit Heppt starts at the IFS in July

Dr. Heppt has accepted the professorship for "Empirical Educational Research in Primary and Secondary Education" and will start at the IFS in July.

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.