Lena Biele

Main research topics

Recording and effectiveness of measures for subject-integrated language training
Professionalisation of teachers and educational staff

by appointment

Master of Education (2020): Teaching qualification for Gymnasium and Secondary Comprehensive Schools in German and French
Bachelor of Arts (2018): Teaching qualification for Gymnasium and Secondary Comprehensive Schools in German and French

Currently working in project KoPaS
Since 09/2025: Research Assistant in the Heppt Research Group (Empirical Educational Research in the School Context) at the IFS
02/2023–09/2025: Research Assistant in the KoPaS project at Humboldt University of Berlin in cooperation with the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement
11/2020–11/2022: Head of Field Operations at Panda Fördergesellschaft mbH on behalf of WWF Germany

Current Projects:

Multidisciplinary cooperation and professionalisation for subject-specific language training in all-day schools (KoPaS)

Paetsch, J., Heppt, B., Stroszeck, E., Horváth, M., Hardy, i., Biele, L., Henschel, S., Höhr, R. & Volodina, A. (im Druck). Multiprofessionelle Kooperation bei der Umsetzung durchgängiger Sprachbildung in der Ganztags(grund)schule: Konzeption einer Interventionsstudie. In B. König, & A.-M. Seemann (Hrsg.): Ganztagsschule in Forschung und Lehre. Professionen im Dialog.

Biele, L., Volodina, A., Höhr, R., Heppt, B. (2025). Teachers’ use of language-promoting questions in primary classroom discourse: associations with teacher expectations and student achievement. 20. Tagung der Fachgruppe Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPS), Jena.
Biele, L., Riemenschneider, A., Heppt, B. (2025). A computational analysis of teachers’ language input in elementary classroom discourse and links with student learning. Poster auf dem 10. Dortmunder Symposium, der Empirischen Bildungsforschung, Dortmund.
Biele, L., Volodina, A., Höhr, R., Heppt, B. (2024). Language-promoting questions in primary classroom discourse – how do they affect student learning? Presentation in Roundtable Session “Writing and Literacy in Education”; Junior Researchers of EARLI (JURE) Conference, Sevilla.
Biele, L. Stroszeck, E. Höhr, R., Heppt, B., Horváth, M., Jurecka, A., Volodina, A., Hardy, I., Henschel, S., Paetsch, J. (2023). Durchgängige Sprachbildung im Kontext von „Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ kooperativ gestalten: Entwicklung sprachbildender Unterrichtsmaterialien für die Grundschule. Poster auf der Sektionstagung für empirische Bildungsforschung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Potsdam.