News at the IFS

We congratulate Dr Annika Ohle-Peters on the successful completion of her habilitation.

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

Carina Schreiber, Marion Peitz and Dr. Nadine Sonnenburg presented the ERASMUS+ project as part of the Global Gallery.

Pascal Alscher successfully completes his doctorate on civic literacy in adolescence.

On May 16, Professor Frederick de Moll gave a lecture on "Non-cognitive dispositions in childhood and adolescence".

Primary school children with a non-German family language show clear reading literacy deficits, but often receive no support.

International study on reading literacy in fourth grade has started – 60 participating countries in the IGLU/PIRLS 2026 large scale assessment.

Article "Voluntary E-Learning Exercises Support Students in Mastering Statistics" von Jakob Schwerter and Taiga Brahm published in journal

On May 2, Professor Meng-Jung Tsai presented "Using Robotics STEAM Curricula to Enhance Students’ 21st Century Competencies" at the IFS lecture series

"Experiments, quasi-experiments, and causality in social sciences: Matching methods" – Methods workshop for early career researchers.

On April 25, Professor Charlotte Rubach presented "New horizons for teacher training" at the IFS lecture series

Aktionsrat Bildung presents report on "Education and social cohesion", in which Prof. McElvany participated as an expert for the primary school area.