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Dear visitors! In light of the current situation, please note that our employees are working from home and are best contacted via e-mail. Many thanks! [read more]

A review written by our ZIB Research Synthesis team on the effectiveness and the influencing factors of school inspection was published. Selected results of the review: School inspection has potential to fulfill policy enforcement function. No strong indication for positive inspection effects on student performance . Positive perception of inspection quality beneficial for inspection effectiveness. … [read more]

A new article in a Springer edited volume describes how the educational knowledge of (prospective) teachers can be measured. In addition to the results of the BilWiss research program, the development of the test is presented and discusses how it is used in teacher education. Click here for more information regarding the complete volume "Student Learning in German Higher Education", in which different approaches of… [read more]

The Leibniz Network for Research in Teaching has published the supplement "Empirical Research on Teaching Quality - Basic Theoretical Questions and Quantitative Modelling" in the Journal for Pedagogy. Doris Holzberger co-authors the theoretical contribution on the differentiation of surface and depth features. For more information click here . [read more]

A new meta-analysis authored by our team is published in the peer-reviewed journal Studies in Science Education: by means of 71 original research articles with a total sample of 3,960,281 secondary students, 260,390 schools, and 285 effect sizes, we examined the role of school characteristics for student engagement, as well as motivational and cognitive learning outcomes in science and mathematics. The results of… [read more]

On March 9, 2020 Sarah Reinhold for the ZIB Research Synthesis team and Maximilian Knogler for the Clearing House Unterricht team will give a talk followed by a panel discussion entitled "Current findings in educational research: Possibly helpful but difficult to find" at the ALP Academy Experts' Conference. The academy experts are responsible for the design and content of the professional development courses for… [read more]

The article „Forschungsflut - Wer hilft mir einen Überblick zu behalten?“ by Doris Holzberger and Lisa Ziernwald was published in the journal Pädagogische Führung (click here for more info). The article provides an insight into the research synthesis group at the Centre for International Student Assessment and illustrates how school practice and research can benefit from each other. [read more]

Wishing you a very happy Holiday season and a joyous New Year from all the team. [read more]

From November 11th to 13th, Janina Täschner attended the kick-off seminar of the TUM Graduate School, a mandatory programme for all doctoral students at the TU Munich during their doctoral studies. On the first morning, Axel Haug, the Center Manager of the Neuperlacher shopping centre PEP, gave the doctoral students an insight into the tasks of a Centre Manager before the TUM Graduate School gave an introduction into… [read more]

On November 8, 2019 Delia Hillmayr and Janina Täschner, who are both working on a research synthesis on dealing with school segregation through parental involvement, participated in the 4th International NEPS Conference (National Educational Panel Study) in Bamberg. Eric. A. Hanushek, one of the leading educational economists, gave a lecture on "Improving disadvantaged schools", which supported the working group's… [read more]