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Jan 20, 2026
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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.
Jul 17, 2024
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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
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
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
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.
