About

The department of Educational Governance focuses its work on investigating educational attainment processes. Societal, structural and institutional conditions influencing processes of educational attainment are analysed; the system’s potential to achieve is explored as well as assurance of equal opportunities and the effectiveness of governance instruments.

In particular, the department is concerned with analysing the role institutional and individual factors play for the success respectively failure of developmental processes. Amongst others, one priority concerns the analysis of transitions in education and educational pathways, together with their consequences for further educational attainment depending on individual resources and institutional respectively organisational characteristics of the education system.

Research findings deliver important incentives to efficient and sustainable governance in education, at the same time they enter into educational reporting.

Central projects of the department are the national report “Education in Germany” as well as the BERLIN Study, a scientific monitoring of the school structure reform in Berlin.

Director: Prof. Dr. Kai Maaz

• BONUS study: Scientific monitoring and evaluation of the Bonus Program for schools in challenging circumstances in Berlin
• NEPS – National Educational Panel Study, stage 5
• Berlin Longitudinal Reading Study (LESEN 3-6)
• Development of an achievement test for the assessment of student competencies in Economics - Labour - Technics - Vocational Orientation (WATB)
• Educational choices and educational pathways within the context of structural changes in Berlin’s secondary school system (BERLIN study)
• From Abitur to doctoral degree and beyond
• How differentiated is teachers’ assessment of their students (Study expanding KEGS)?
• Individual developmental trajectories and institutional contexts across the lifespan
• Learning Processes, Educational Careers, and Psychosocial Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Study (BIJU)
• National Report on Education
• Tradition and Innovation: Developmental processes at non-academic track secondary schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxony

• Ricarda Albrecht, Academic staff, Educational structures and pathways
• Hermann Avenarius, Emeritus, Educational Structure and Governance
• Anna Bachsleitner, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Michael Becker, Post-doc researcher, Educational structures and pathways
• Naemi Brandt, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Susanne Böse, Academic staff, Educational structures and pathways
• Hanna Dumont, Post-doc researcher, Educational structures and pathways
• Hans-Peter Füssel, Associated researcher, Educational Structure and Governance
• Therese Gesswein, Academic staff, School improvement research
• Daniela Julia Jäger-Biela, Academic staff, Educational monitoring and reporting
• Luise von Keyserlingk , Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Michaela Kropf, Officer to the department, Educational structures and pathways
• Stefan Kühne, Project co-ordination, Educational monitoring and reporting
• Eunji Lee, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Josefine Lühe, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Kai Maaz, Director, Educational Structure and Governance
• Marko Neumann, Deputy Management, Educational Structure and Governance
• Jessica Ordemann, Academic staff, Educational Structure and Governance
• Susanne Radmann, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Stefan Schulz, Academic staff, Educational monitoring and reporting
• Sophie Stallasch, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Franziska Stäbler , Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways
• Julia Tetzner, Academic staff, Educational structures and pathways
• Marie Wohlbrandt, Academic staff, Educational Structure and Governance
• Nicky Zunker, Doctoral candidate, Educational structures and pathways