News at the IFS
Extension of the project Developing Potentials – Empowering Schools till September 2019
The Stiftung Mercator agreed with an extension of the joint project Developing Potentials – Empowering Schools till the end of September 2019.
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Teacher training center from Shanghai visits IFS
On July 19, the IFS welcomed Ms. Hua from the teacher training center in Shanghai, China. In joint discussions, points of overlap and prospects for…
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Decade of Literacy and Basic Education
Professor McElvany was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Decade of Literacy and Basic Education. At the end of June, a…
Guest lecture by Prof. Liliana Garces from the University of Austin, Texas
Professor Liliana Garces visited the IFS to give a guest lecture as part of this year's lecture series. In addition to the lecture on the topic…
Presented results of scientific monitoring of the trial phase of "Community School"
At the beginning of May the team of the scientific evaluation of the trial phase of "Learning Longer Together" in North Rhine-Westphalia led by…
Early English Education at Primary school less effective than expected
In cooperation between the English Didactics of the Ruhr-University Bochum (Dr. Nils Jaekel und Prof. Markus Ritter) and the IFS within the project…
Dr. Miriam Gebauer represented the IFS at the AERA 2017
Dr. Miriam Gebauer successfully represented the IFS at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association with the symposium…
Continuation and expansion of international cooperation with CRESST in the US
In a third stay by Professor McElvany as Visiting Researcher at the University of California's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards…
Chancenspiegel - On equal opportunities and efficiency of the german school systems
As a tool for monitoring school systems that is based on data and focused on equal opportunities, the Chancenspiegel draws the attention of scholars…
TIMSS 2015 results published
In 2015, Germany took part in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2015) for the third time. Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos at the…
Länderindikator 2016 has been published
The representative study Länderindikator 2016 provides the second cycle of findings on media education in the German school system. This educational…
1st IFS educational dialog encouraged interdisciplinary exchange
"Arriving in schools - opportunities and challenges in the integration of children and young people with refugee experience" - this was the topic on…