News at the IFS
Wilfried Bos in Deutschlandfunk – What do school performance studies bring?
A broadcast on German radio addresses the question of benefits and effects of national and international school achievement studies. Wilfried Bos…

Manuela Endberg successfully defended her doctoral thesis
Manuela Endberg, research fellow in the working group of Professor Bos, successfully defended her doctoral thesis which deals with “Professional…

Martin Burghoff – Docotral thesis successfully defended
Martin Burghoff, research fellow in the team of Professor Bos, successfully defended his doctoral thesis in the field of educational sciences today.…

TU Dortmund University Council votes 2018 – IFS represented in Senate and Faculty Council
Professor Nele McElvany was elected as a member of the Senate of TU Dortmund University and Council of the Faculty Educational Science, Psychology and…

Theresa Schlitter receives Best of JURE Award Paper 2018
Theresa Schlitter, research assistant in the team of Prof. McElvany, received the Best of JURE Award in the category "Paper" at this year's Junior…

4th Dortmund symposium on empirical educational research – What teachers need to know
The 4th symposium on empirical educational research in Dortmund provided the stage for educational research experts from all over Germany to discuss –…

Svenja Hartwig successfully defends her doctoral thesis
Svenja Hartwig, research fellow in the working group of Professor McElvany, successfully defended her dissertation today. Her doctoral thesis deals…

The Ganz In project celebrates its completion
On Friday, the IFS celebrated the successful completion of the Ganz In project at the Dortmunder U together with around 150 project partners from…

Education Action Council publishes new report on digital sovereignty and education
The Education Action Council, a ten-member politically independent panel of experts including Professor Lenzen as chairman, Professor Bos and…

Habilitation - Dr. Ramona Lorenz receives Venia Legendi
On April 25, 2018, Dr. Ramona Lorenz successfully delivered the scientific lecture "New governance in the school system - comparability of…

Nele McElvany as Visiting Researcher at CRESST/UCLA
Professor McElvany is again spending some time as visiting researcher at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student…

StEG: nationwide, representative system monitoring has started
The “Study on the Development of All-Day Schools” 2018, a nationwide representative online-survey of headmasters at all-day schools, has been…
