Further News
Brief descriptions of new publications, important staff appointments or news on our new building – take a look at further news from the DIPF.
Variability in children‘s working memory is coupled with perceived disturbance: An ambulatory assessment study in the school and out-of-school context
An article that reports on an assessment study about the influcence of disturbance on learning children in the school and out-of-school context.
The training of morphological decomposition in word processing and its effects on literacy performance in children with poor literacy skills who speak German as a second language
The article features the experimental examination of a morpheme-based reading training programme.
Practical significance of item misfit in educational assessments
The article issues the practical significance of item misfit in educational assessments.
Fish swimming into the ocean: How tracking relates to students’ self-beliefs and school disengagement at the end of schooling
The study that is presented in this article has examined how students of low- and intermediate-track schools as well as comprehensive schools in Berlin, Germany estimate their own skills and chances for their future before they finish their schooling and enter vocational training.
Development in multiple areas of life in adolescence: Interrelations between academic achievement, perceived peer acceptance, and self-esteem
A study about the interrelations between academic achievement, perceived peer acceptance, and self-esteem for the development in adolescence.
Data driven approaches in digital education
The conference transcript looks back on the central contributions to the twelfth “European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning“ (EC-TEL 2017) that took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2017.
What Happens to the Fish's Achievement in a Little Pond?: A Simultaneous Analysis of Class-average Achievement Effects on Achievement and Academic Self-concept
How does the achievement level in their class influence the achievement development of learners?
Paper-based Assessment of the Effects of Aging on Response Time in Processing Speed: A Diffusion Model Analysis
How does aging affect response time?
Obituary
At DIPF, Dr Jean-Paul Reeff is mourned, who passed away in Berlin on May 6, 2018.
Observing Instructional Quality in the Context of School Evaluation
On the quality of classroom observation
Does One Year of Schooling Improve Children’s Cognitive Control and Alter Associated Brain Activation?
How does the environmental context of formal schooling shape brain mechanisms?
Differences in Arithmetic Performance Between Chinese and German Adults Are Accompanied by Differences in Processing of Non-symbolic Numerical Magnitude
What are the differences in Chinese and German university students’ performance regarding arithmetic and numerical magnitude comparison tasks?
Data Citation Policies of Data Providers Within the Scope of Longitudinal Studies in Life Course Research
Study on data citation policies for research data
Advancement of Pictura Paedagogica
Visual History of Education: An international cooperation of school museums and libraries of education has commenced
Assessing Assessment Cultures
Keynote given by Prof. Dr. Eckhard Klieme on cultural differences in the recording of learning outcomes and prerequisites
Competence Assessment in Education: Research, Models and Instruments
How can competencies be measured in different educational contexts?
Are Altmetrics Effective in Transdisciplinary Research Fields?: Altmetric Coverage of Outputs in Educational Research
Altmetrics in Educational Research
Educational Technologies in Times of a Data-Driven Society
Inaugural lecture of Professor Dr. Hendrik Drachlser on 30 October at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Professor Dr. em. Lutz Eckensberger receives Ernst-E.-Boesch-Prize 2017
The former Director of DIPF was awarded the prize by the Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie in September 2017.
Knowledge for Education – in Mandarin
On 17 July 2017, translations of the national education reports for 2012 and 2014 were presented in the Chinese embassy in Berlin.