News — DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

IDeA Children's Festival 2026

Jun 13, 2026 — Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main —

Every year, the IDeA Research Centre at DIPF celebrates the summer with a large, free children's festival on the Westend Campus in Frankfurt.

Mar 16, 2026 news

BEA 2026 Shared Task on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German

Researchers in the fields of AI in education and natural language processing (NLP) are invited to participate.

Jan 20, 2026 press releases

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders appointed new director at DIPF

With Prof. Dr. Yvonne Anders, the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has gained an outstanding scientist for a key position: the education researcher is a new director of the institute, which involves heading one of the five departments and being part of the executive board. At the same time, she will be appointed to the professorship for Psychology focusing on Education and Human Development at Goethe University Frankfurt in cooperation with DIPF.

Visual Bias – Documenting, Representing & Communicating Images in Educational History Research

May 21, 2026 to May 22, 2026 — BBF at DIPF, Warschauer Str. 34,10243 Berlin —

Conference on visual bias in educational science and educational history, as well as in the context of digital humanities

Nov 13, 2025 news

Games for Greater Engagement

Numerous publications are available from the international research project GREAT.

CiteX 2026: Workshop on Citation Extraction and Parsing

May 28, 2026 to May 29, 2026 — DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Rostocker Straße 6, 60323 Frankfurt am Main —

Registration for the interdisciplinary event on citation data is now open.

Sep 01, 2025 news

Project of the Month: INFLATE

The INFLATE team is investigating the phenomenon of grade inflation, whereby good school grades are being awarded inflationarily with regard to the underlying skills.

Sep 01, 2025

PROMPT Team Shortlisted for Fast Forward Science 2025 with Educational Video

“From a reluctant learner to a learning ninja: A short (video) guide to self-organised learning” is among the top five in the “Young Scientist Award Long” category.

IDeA Children's Festival: The Research Centre Introduces Itself

Aug 30, 2025 from 01:30 PM to 04:30 PM — DIPF, Rostocker Straße 6, 60323 Frankfurt am Main —

Young and old celebrate summer at the Westend Campus.

Jul 17, 2024 press releases

When Smartphones Remind You to Learn

Do smartphone reminders encourage pupils to engage regularly with learning material? Researchers at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education investigated this question. Their conclusion: simple reminders such as push notifications tend to have a negative effect on learning times. It is true that pupils learn more often on days when they are reminded than on days without reminders. Overall, however, a control group that was never reminded studied on more days. The study was presented in the journal “Science of Learning” and is freely available

May 06, 2024

A Closer Look: Do Good Lessons Promote Students' Attention and Behaviour?

Students are better able to regulate themselves in lessons that they consider to be particularly well implemented. This is the conclusion drawn from a study by the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, published in the journal "Learning and Instruction". The link between teaching quality and self-regulation tends to be particularly true for pupils who have problems controlling their behaviour and following lessons, for example due to ADHD symptoms.

Apr 24, 2024

Inclusion: The Stereotypes Pre-service Teachers Associate with Pupils with Special Educational Needs

In the course of inclusion, teachers are increasingly instructing pupils with special educational needs. Stereotypes regarding these children and adolescents can influence how the teachers deal with them. The DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has now investigated how pre-service teachers imagine autistic pupils and those with Down syndrome and dyslexia. The scientific work revealed pronounced stereotypes among the pre-service teachers- including how competent and warm the individual pupil groups are. The DIPF wants to develop educational programs to counteract such generalizations.

Feb 07, 2024

New Research Professorship for Digital History of Education

With a joint appointment, the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education and Humboldt-University of Berlin are strengthening research in the digital history of education. The new professorship for "Historical Educational Research with a Focus on Digital Humanities" has been filled by PD Dr. Katharina Vogel. The research professorship is located in the DIPF department BBF | Research Library for the History of Education. It aims to generate digital methods and tools to gain new insights into historical educational research and at the same time to critically reflect on them.

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