News at the IFS
Project completion "Effects and moderators of stereotype threat in vocabulary acquisition of students with a Turkish migration background on primary and secondary schools"
The DFG project "Stereotype threat in vocabulary learning situations" has ended.
![Projektabschluss_Stereotype threat Foto von drei Jugendlichen auf dem Schulhof im Gespräch miteinander, sowie ein blaues und grünes Feld mit dem Projektnamen und Logos der TU Dortmund, IFS und der DFG](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/9/6/csm_Projektabschluss_ST_c02968334d.png)
Study "Shaping Linguistic Education Together with Elementary Schools, Families and Educators: What works?" starts
The BMBF-funded SPEAK project started on 01.10.2022 and will run until 30.09.2026.
![Schulklasse Grundschulkinder im Klassenraum, die mit Tablets und Schulheften arbeiten](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/c/2/csm_Digitalisierung_iStock_skynesher_96e8735635.png)
IFS warmly welcomes Professor Charlotte Dignath!
Professorship for Empirical Educational Research with a focus on school and classroom research filled by Dr. Charlotte Dignath.
![Prof. Dr. Charlotte Dignath Grüner Schriftzug Herzlich willkommen! mit darunterliegenden schwarzen Schriftzug Prof. Dr. Charlotte Dignath und rechts davon ein Foto der Professorin.](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/8/f/csm_Webseite_Dignath_final_11e4732915.png)
IFS at the AEPF conference in Stuttgart, Germany
On the AEPF conference topic "Teaching and learning rethought - consequences for the future education system" the IFS is present with a symposium and…
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Michael Becker and Hanna Gaspard among the world's most productive researchers in educational psychology
Study lists Hanna Gaspard and Michael Becker as particularly prolific in international educational psychology journals.
![Becker & Gaspard Porträtfotos von Hanna Gaspard (links) und Michael Becker (rechts)](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/3/c/csm_Produktivste_Gaspard_Becker_b6616d6134.png)
New journal article in Educational Studies published
This article compares Omani and German teachers’ attitudes, motivational orientations and self-regulatory skills.
![Educational Studies Cover des Journals mit beigen Hintergrund und weißer Schrift Educational Studies](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/3/1/csm_Publikation_Educational_Studies_AOP_61fc35f4a0.png)
IFS presents current research results at DGPs congress on "view on | of science"
IFS represented at this year's DGPs Congress in Hildesheim with many contributions.
![Ankündigung DGPs Stilisiertes Auge als Logo des diesjährigen DGPs-Kongresses und darunter grüner Schriftzug IFS auf 52. DGPs-Kongress „View on | of science“](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/5/f/csm_Ankuendigung_Webseite_DGPs_ec23dec68e.png)
New journal article in Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft published
What factors influence ratings of teaching quality? In an experimental study, among other things, the order effect was analyzed.
![ZfE Unterrichtsqualität Schwarzer Schriftzug des Publikationtitels Unterrichtsqualität aus der Sicht von externen Raterinnen und Ratern – Analysen zum Reihenfolgeeffekt](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/d/2/csm_ZfE_Igler_9e287104d9.png)
Contribution at ECER Plus 2022: Linking school ICT equipment and teacher ICT self-efficacy to teaching organization and achievement evaluation in German schools during the pandemic
Sittipan Yotyodying presented current results from the research field of digitization in education at ECER Plus 2022.
![ECER 2022 Dunkelblauer Schriftzug ECER 2022 Yerevan and ECER Plus vor einem Stadtfoto](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/b/2/csm_ECER_2022_56297e10cd.jpg)
Article published in Learning and Instruction
This article examines text-based interest in relation to text features and reading comprehension in elementary school boys and girls.
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IFS represented at the 17th International Conference on Motivation (ICM) in Dresden
The IFS will present itself with two symposia and four other contributions at the ICM.
![SIG-816-Earli 2022 Logo der ICM als Schriftzug SIG 816 und darunter befindlichen dunkelblauen Schriftzug Dresden 2022 Germany](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/f/f/csm_sig-816-Earli2022_1d4f174e36.png)
New journal article published in Behavior Research Methods
The article deals with the relationship between word frequency and item difficulty in knowledge tests.
![Publikation_BRM Schwarzer Schriftzug What makes domain knowledge difficult? Word usage frequency from SUBTLEX and dlexDB explains knowledge item difficulty](/storages/ifs-ep/_processed_/e/6/csm_Publikation_BRM_Ulrich_12e5a31619.png)