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Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology
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PD Dr. Ramona Lorenz

Main research topics

  • Empirical research on school and instruction
  • Digital media in school and instruction
  • Reading literacy of students
  • Educational Governance and centralized examinations in schools

Office hours

by appointment

Academic background

  • 06/2018 Permission to lecture in the subject of Educational Science with a focus on Empirical Educational Research, TU Dortmund University
  • 04/2018: Habilitation in the subject of Educational Science with a focus on Empirical Educational Research, TU Dortmund University
  • 2013: Dr. phil. In Educational Science, TU Dortmund University
  • 2009: M.A. in Research on Language Teaching, Ruhr University Bochum
  • 2007: B.A. in Romance Philology and Research on Language Teaching, Ruhr University Bochum

Professional background

  • Currently working in the projects Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2021), Learning and Assessment in the digital age (LL digital) and Schule digital – der Länderindikator 2021 (Länderindikator 2021)
  • Since 10/2019: research assistant in team McElvany at the IFS
  • 04/2009–09/2019: research assistant in team Bos at the IFS
     

Vita

Further Information

Current Projects: 

  • Progress In Reading Literacy Study (IGLU/PIRLS 2021), project duration: 01.03.2019 – 31.03.2023

Past Projects:

  • Development of pedagogical media competence in pre-service teacher education (EmpädK-LA)
  • Quality assurance of central examinations in North Rhine-Westphalia (Zentralabitur)
  • Technical and pedagogical support in German secondary schools (TPS)
  • International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2013 (ICILS 2013), project duration: 01.02.2012 – 31.12.2015
  • Digital School – The federal indicator 2015–2017, project duration: 01.01.2015 – 31.03.2018
  • Teaching during the Corona Pandemic (Corona-U), project duration: 01.04.2020 – 31.12.2020
  • Digital School – The federal indicator 2021, project duration: 01.05.2021 – 30.04.2022
  • Learning and Assessment in the digital age (LL digital), project duration: 01.06.2019 – 30.11.2022
  • Heldt, M., Lorenz, R. & Eickelmann, B. (2020). Relevanz schulischer Medienkonzepte als Orientierung im Zuge der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung in der Schule. Unterrichtswissenschaft 48, 447–468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42010-020-00070-y
  • Lorenz, R. & Endberg, M. (2019). Welche professionellen Handlungskompetenzen benötigen Lehrpersonen im Kontext der Digitalisierung in der Schule? Theoretische Diskussion unter Berücksichtigung der Perspektive Lehramtsstudierender. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 61–81. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/00/2019.10.16.X
  • Lorenz, R., Endberg, M. & Eickelmann, B. (2019). Medienbezogene Kompetenzen von Lehrpersonen – Empirische Befunde und Perspektiven für die Lehrerausbildung. In T. Ehmke, P. Kuhl & M. Pietsch (Hrsg.) Lehrer. Bildung. Gestalten. Beiträge zur empirischen Forschung in der Lehrerbildung (S. 142–152). Weinheim: Beltz-Verlag.
  • Lorenz, R., Endberg, M. & Bos, W. (2018). Predictors of Fostering Students’ Computer and Information Literacy – Analysis Based on a Representative Sample of Secondary School Teachers in Germany. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9809-0
  • Lorenz, R., Bos, W., Endberg, M., Eickelmann, B., Grafe, S. & Vahrenhold, J. (Hrsg.). (2017). Schule digital – der Länderindikator 2017. Schulische Medienbildung in der Sekundarstufe I mit besonderem Fokus auf MINT-Fächer im Bundesländervergleich und Trends von 2015 bis 2017. Münster: Waxmann. https://www.waxmann.com/buch3699

 

  • Lorenz, R., Trendtel, M. & McElvany, N. (2021, accepted). About the Relation between Using ICT and Reading Literacy in Primary Education – Analyses Based on PIRLS 2016 in Germany. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Genf – online.
  • Lorenz, R., Heldt, M. & Eickelmann, B. (2019). Relevance of Pre-Service Teacher Education to use ICT for the Actual Use in Classrooms: Focus on German Secondary Schools. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, Germany.
  •  Lorenz, R. & Endberg, M. (2018). Medienbezogene Kompetenzen von Lehrpersonen – Stand und Perspektiven für die Lehrerausbildung. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany.
  • Lorenz, R. & Bos, W. (2017). Predictors of Fostering Students` Computer and Information Literacy – Analysis Based on a Representative Sample of Secondary School Teachers in Germany. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Kopenhagen, Denmark.
  • Lorenz, R., Endberg, M. & Bos, W. (2017). Relation of Reading Literacy and Frequency of Internet Use: Analysis based on PISA 2015. 11th World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE), Dublin, Ireland.
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