School and Instruction Quality

Research on school and instructional quality is concentrated in the area of general education schools. Developments are taken into perspective across many years. Large scale, sometimes  international questionnaire-based assessments of achievement (surveys, Large Scale Assements) are complemented with qualitative studies and longitudinal studies, to assess the effectiveness of interventions.
Research on effectiveness also includes the analysis of reciprocal effects of curricular and extracurricular factors and of individual and institutional developments.

Current projects

• Database for Quality of Schools
• Study on the Development of All-day Schools (StEG)
• School educational governance structures
• IDeA – project elbe
  
• IDeA – project IGEL

Completed projects

• Evaluation of the Buddy state programmes in Hesse and Lower Saxony
• Democracy at School
• Implementing new governance structures in school systems: the example of centralised exams for higher education qualifications
• OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey
• Pythagoras / The Quality of Instruction and Mathematical Understanding in Different Cultures of Instruction
• School Systems of Europe
• School Development and Teachers’ Work (SEL)
• Comparison of the Education Systems of Germany and Canada
• Professionalization of school leaders
• DESI / Assessment of Student Achievements in German and English as a Foreign Language
• PERLE / Personality and Learning Development of Primary School Children
• INFCIV / The development of active citizenship on the basis of informal learning at school