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Past Projects
Project duration: 01.10.2009 - 30.09.2012
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos
Project description
The aim of the overall European project under the umbrella of the European Science Foundation (ESF) was to further develop the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness (Creemers & Kyriakides, 2008) in order to create a theoretically based and empirically grounded framework for educational policy decisions in the context of school and classroom development and evaluation and to contribute to the improvement of student achievement. The focus of the German sub-project was on identifying the influences of the school and system level on student performance, with particular attention to the school context, compositional effects at the class level and the socio-economic status of the student body.
Project duration: 01.08.2015 - 31.12.2018
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
“Biss-EvalLesen” is a comprehensive formative and summative evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of reading and diagnostics programs for elementary school children within the overall program “Education through Language and Writing” (BiSS). The design includes recommendations for further development within the program.
BiTe - Development and Evaluation of Competency Models for Integrated Processing of Texts and Images
Project duration: 01.10.2008 - 30.09.2014
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
This project investigates teachers’ and students’ competences in teaching and learning from texts with integrated (instructional) pictures. After developing competency models for teacher and students, longitudinal studies were conducted in elementary and secondary school.
Project duration: 15.05.2017 - 31.03.2019, extended until 31.03.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Fani Lauermann, PhD
Project description
Student motivation is not only an important determinant for commitment and perseverance at university, but is also crucial for academic success. The focus of this study is on short-term changes in the motivational beliefs of students in advanced mathematics courses.
Project duration: 01.06.2010 - 31.03.2017
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
“Chance Mirror” is a thematic, indicator-based monographic series for use as an instrument within the school monitoring system. Using four aspects of equality, the report focus is an examination of educational equality of the German school systems in the different states.
Project duration: 01.12.2013 - 30.04.2017
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project duration
The research examines the conditions and progression of the establishment of “Gemeinschaftsschulen” (a type of comprehensive school in Germany). This includes school development, educational concepts, organizational and pedagogical implementation, teaching training processes in heterogeneous learning groups, development of student competencies, and psychosocial development.
Project duration: 01.04.2019 - 31.10.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Fani Lauermann, PhD
Project description
The joint project aims to apprehend the teaching competencies of school teachers and adult educators who teach German as a second language in linguistically diverse classrooms.
Project duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.12.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The study aimed to gain empirical evidence on teaching during the corona pandemic in Germany. In particular, the study focused on the general conditions and effects as well as the experience of teachers during the corona pandemic.
Project duration: 20.01.2021 - 30.04.2021
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The study aims to gain empirical insights into teaching during the Corona pandemic in Germany. In particular, the focus was on the general conditions and effects as well as the teachers' experience of the Corona crisis.
Project duration: 01.01.2016 - 30.06.2019
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Stephan Hußmann
Prof. Dr. Barbara Welzel
Project description
The Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS) at TU Dortmund University is responsible for scientific accompanying research of the project DoProfiL. During the scope of this project researchers involved in teacher education as well as higher education at the TU Dortmund work together headed by the Dortmund competence center for teacher training and educational research (DoKoLL) and rectorship. The aim of the scientific accompanying research is to monitor developments in the institutional and individual context for the duration of the project.
Project duration: 01.05.2017 - 30.06.2021
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
In this project we develop and validate a test for measuring creative competence among students in secondary school. A special focus is on music.
Project duration: 01.04.2018 - 30.09.2021
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The aim of the project is the evidence-based optimization of teacher education and training in the context of inclusive education through the development, validation and effectiveness testing of a new innovative tool in the context of competence development. Based on the realized approach of Koenig, Lee, Iseli and Wainess (2010), a tool will be developed to promote students of an education program in the area of Classroom Management.
Project duration: 01.02.2018 - 31.03.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
PD Dr. Rolf Strietholt
Project description
The European Training Network OCCAM is an international research project that provides junior scientists with an international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary research and training environment. The research questions encompass the fields of the integrity of educational measures, educational settings and processes, as well as governance of resources and decision making in the area of education.
Project duration: 01.11.2015 - 31.05.2019
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
The project focus is on the development of instruction in a selected subject and a subject-specific theme in one of 29 Ganz In schools, itensifying and continuing the sucessful work over the last many years. Support for the transfer process within and between schools has been increased and tranfers to other schools has been made possible.
Project duration: 01.07.2018 - 31.07.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
PD Dr. Hanna Pfänder
Project description
The research project GemeinsamGANZTAG aims at supporting and promoting underprivileged students at all-day schools in challenging circumstances by focusing on language competencies and competencies of self-regulated learning as vantage points to foster these students and by developing and establishing a regional system of support.
Project duration: 01.01.2020 - 30.04.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels i.R. & Dr. Karin Lossen
Project description
The project “Quality of All-day Provisions” opens up new perspectives after 15 years of research on All-day Schools. Further analyses of empirical data, literature reviews and knowledge transfer from research to practice will contribute to the development of the quality of all-day schools.
Project duration: 01.02.2012 - 31.12.2015
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
The ICILS 2013 study (International Computer and Information Literacy Study) was the first international comparison to measure information and computer-related competences of young people and to empirically record the school and extracurricular framework conditions for their acquisition.
Project duration: 01.01.1998 - 01.01.2004
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
IGLU-PIRLS is an international comparative study that has examined the reading comprehension of students at the end of fourth grade. In Germany, all federal states participate in this study. IGLU/E is a national extension of IGLU-PIRLS. With IGLU/E, the competencies of pupils in mathematics and science are assessed in twelve federal states in Germany.
Project duration: 01.01.2004 - 31.12.2008
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
Following a decision by the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs on 4 March 2004, Germany again participated in the International Primary School Reading Survey (IGLU-PIRLS) in 2006. IGLU is a study of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Germany already participated in this international study in 2001, which tested the reading skills of fourth grade students in 45 countries and regions worldwide in 2006.
In addition to IGLU-PIRLS 2006, a national extension study (IGLU-E 2006) took place in Germany, which provided in-depth findings on the school entry phase, all-day schooling, the use of digital media and orthographic skills. In Germany, all 16 federal states with a total of 410 schools participated in IGLU-PIRLS and IGLU-E 2006. The examination took place between 24 April and 2 June 2006.
Project duration: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2012
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
IGLU 2011 (Internationale Grundschul-Lese-Untersuchung) / PIRLS 2011 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is a school achievement study initiated by the IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement).
Project duration: 01.02.2013 - 08.02.2018
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
IGLU/PIRLS is an international comparative study that has examined the reading comprehension of students at the end of fourth grade every five years since 2001. In 2016, Germany participated for the fourth time.
Project duration: 01.08.2022 - 31.01.2023
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
In December 2022, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS 2021) for Germany will be published. The aim of the accompanying project PIRLS-Transfer is to prepare these results for further development and orientation in school practice as well as in educational administration and to make them usable in a practice-oriented way.
Project duration: 01.11.2011 - 31.10.2015
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
In this intervention study at the end of elementary school we investigated the potential of students’ native language (L1; Turkish) for vocabulary acquisition in German (L2). Students learned new vocabulary from context by reading texts, incorporating students’ L1 to different extents.
Project duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Michael Becker
Project description
The study ‘Competence Development in Elementary Schools’ (KEGS) tracked competence development of students in the state of Brandenburg across five years in primary school (grades 2 to 6). The primary focus of the enhancement study lies on the role of individual differences in the experiences and behaviour of the students regarding their academic achievements and decisions regarding their educational careers.
Project duration: 01.03.2020 - 31.12.2023
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
In the project K4D, concepts and formats of digital collaboration are developed in different departments of the TU Dortmund University to increase the didactic and methodological quality of teaching and learning processes through a substantial and collaborative use of digital media in university courses. The project team at the Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS) is responsible for the scientific monitoring and evaluation of the project.
Project duration: 01.01.2015 - 31.03.2018
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
The project Schule digital – der Länderindikator is an in-depth state comparison study of the use of digital media in the German school system. Included in the study is a yearly teachers’ survey with a different thematic focus each year.
Project duration: 01.05.2021 - 30.04.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
PD Dr. Ramona Lorenz
Project description
The study Schule digital – der Länderindikator 2021 is a follow-up to the potential of the 2015 to 2017 conducted Länderindikators, which examined digitization in the German school system in a comparison between the German federal states.
Project duration: since 01.06.2011
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The study focuses on the attitudes and motivation of prospective teachers in terms of managing cultural, social, and performance heterogeneity in the classroom. Approaches are divided into cognitive, affective and behavioral components, and are understood as belonging to a teacher’s professional competence.
Project duration: 01.09.2016 - 31.12.2019
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
Focusing reading literacy LeseDif analyses to what extent strengths and weaknesses of children who are socially disadvantaged and those with migration backgrounds are being influenced by (a) motivational characteristics of the learners and (b) quantitative and qualitative characteristics of instruction.
Project duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Michael Becker
Project description
Individual and social impact factors on the development of reading literacy, reading motivation and reading behaviour in the period from third to sixth form are analysed within the framework of a longitudinal study.
Project duration: 01.06.2019 - 30.11.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The project LL digital addresses the effects of digital media on the reading competences of elementary school students in learning situations and assessment.
Project duration: 01.03.2016 - 31.07.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Michael Becker
Project description
The project addresses the development of social disparities throughout the course of secondary education. More precisely, primary (performance-related) and secondary (non-performance-related) social background effects are comparatively analysed at the four educational transition points after elementary school: after the so called observation level, after lower secondary level, and at the end of upper secondary level. The project studies how primary and secondary effects cumulate also as a function of school-track specific learning environments across the mentioned junctures in the educational career. Moreover, it examines how changes in the educational demand between LAU and KESS relate to the development of inequality patterns.
Project duration: 01.04.2016 - 31.01.2019
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
In this project we investigate the influence of favorable motivational conditions on motivation and acquisition of competence in music. In an experimental approach, the influence of a motivation-oriented teaching on motivational orientations on the one hand and the acquisition of musical competencies on the other is investigated.
Project description: 01.01.2014 - 30.09.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels i. R.
Project description
Developing Potential – Strengthening Schools was a joint project of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Institute for School Development Research at the TU Dortmund University. It was carried out in cooperation with the Quality and Support Agency - State Institute for Schools NRW and funded by the Mercator Foundation.
Project duration: 01.10.2010 - 31.12.2015
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The overall aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of including the (Turkish) family language to promote vocabulary in German. A particular focus is also on correlation analyses between students' own and perceived parental values and reading frequency on reading comprehension.
Project duration: 01.11.2011 - 31.03.2015
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The central aim of the project is the analysis of mechanisms that can contribute to improving educational opportunities, especially for children from immigrant backgrounds. Self-efficacy beliefs are a key factor in educational and learning processes.
Project duration: 01.05.2020 - 31.10.2023
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The project aims to identify determinants of the integration in school of refugee and newly immigrated children. Therefore, the study focuses on children with experiences of displacement and on ethnic minorities from (South) Eastern Europe (e.g., Romani people) whose integration is a challenge for regions like the Ruhr area.
Project duration: 01.02.2011 - 31.01.2016
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
The project examined the organisation of the transition from primary to secondary school and tested possibilities for anchoring transition strategies as a joint responsibility of the educational actors in a region. For this purpose, 29 local networks of more than 160 sending and receiving schools were formed in eight model municipalities. The school networks were to develop innovative (problem-solving) strategies that were linked to the specific needs of the participating network schools. The municipalities and the participating schools received support from a scientific consortium and the IFS, which also took on a coordinating function within the framework of the project.
Project duration: 01.11.2013 - 31.12.2016
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
Language and Gender investigates possible differences in the quality of vocabulary knowledge of girls and boys. Using empirical analysis, presumed advantages girls have with words with female connotations and boys with words with male connotations will be investigated.
Project duration: 01.01.2016 - 31.12.2019
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels i. R.
Project description
StEG is a nationwide research program investigating the quantitative and qualitative development of all-day education and care in Germany. At the Dortmund location, the effects of extra-curricular learning arrangements that promote reading comprehension are studied in all-day schools as part of an intervention study.
Project duration: 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2015
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günter Holtappels i. R.
Project description
The research team of the "Study on the Development of All-day Schools - StEG" presents the report "All-day School 2012/2013". It is the result of a nationally representative online survey of 1,300 heads of schools with all-day programmes. You can download the entire report here.
Project duration: 01.06.2018 - 30.09.2022
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The project investigates the effect of stereotypes on vocabulary acquisition of learners in different age groups.
Project duration: 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2014
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The project was focused on systematically testing the test fairness of reading test items from the major school performance surveys for groups of students who differ on the basis of the characteristics (a) gender, (b) social situation, (c) migration status and (d) school form attendance. There was also a special focus on comparing different methods that can be used in this context.
Project duration: 01.07.2020 - 30.06.2023
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Fani Lauermann, PhD
Project description
The Studiport-Math test aims to assess incoming university students’ mathematical competences. Test-M will provide a test-theory based analysis for the Studiport-Math assessment test, which will allow for further development and evaluation of the test.
Project duration: 01.02.2018 - 01.12.2018
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
The TiL-study addresses the research question if primary school aged girls’ and boys’ interest in texts is related to different factors. Therefore, we investigated whether interest in texts depend on students’ gender and various text characteristics like text genre.
Project duration: 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2008
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
With TIMSS 2007, Germany participated for the first time in a baseline international comparison of fourth grade students in mathematics and science.
Project duration: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2012
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
TIMSS is an international comparative school achievement study. It focuses on the mathematical and scientific competencies of pupils in different grades. With the 2011 study, Germany participated in TIMSS for the second time with students in the fourth grade.
Project duration: 01.02.2012 - 28.02.2017
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Bos i. R.
Project description
TIMSS is an international comparative school achievement survey. It focuses on the mathematical and scientific competencies of pupils in different grades. With the 2015 study, Germany participated in TIMSS for the third time with students in the fourth grade.
Project duration: 01.03.2017 - 31.12.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Nele McElvany
Project description
TIMSS is an international comparative school assessment of mathematics and science competencies, comparing elementary school students’ competencies internationally and describing long-term trends in the German and other educational systems. Focus of the joint research project at IFS is the assessment of instructional quality in fourth grade.
Project duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2020
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Michael Becker
Project description
"Tradition and Innovation: Developmental processes at non-academic track secondary schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxony" (TRAIN) is a study that focuses on the academic development of students in secondary schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxony.
Project duration: since 01.01.2021
Lead researcher at TU Dortmund
Prof. Fani Lauermann, PhD
Project description
Teachers' sense of personal responsibility has important implications for what happens in the classroom. In the Teacher Responsibility Research Program, consequences of teachers' responsibility for: (1) their teaching practices, (2) their willingness to make a personal commitment to the learning progress of weaker students in particular, and (3) their well-being (e.g. stress experience).