News at the IFS

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”.

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

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.

The IFS mourns the passing of educational researcher and IFS-cooperation partner Monica Rosén, who died on August 29.

The website www.lesekids.schule enables the promotion of reading skills with artificial intelligence and digital stories.

The IFS presented a paper at the ECER 2024 on “Education in an Age of Uncertainty: memory and hope for the future”.

IFS researchers took part in the International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (ICM) in Bern.

The interdisciplinary research profile FAIR is holding a Learning Analytics Workshop co-organised by the IFS from September 25–27 .

The FAIR Graduate Programme offers doctoral students in the social sciences workshops on statistical methods.