Dr. Janin Brandenburg

Projects

• BÄRENstark! – Working Memory Competencies of Children with Learning Difficulties
• TRIO – Language education in early child care centers

Curriculum Vitae

since 2016	Post-doctoral researcher in the Department for Education and Human Development
01/2014 – 04/2014	Three-month research visit to Prof. H. Lee Swanson, University of California Riverside, USA
05/2011 – 02/2016	Doctoral student in the Department for Education and Human Development
10/2005 – 04/2011	Studied Psychology at Justus-Liebig University, Gießen

Current work and research activities

• Learning disabilities and learning disorders
• Working Memory and executive functions
• Development of language competencies in pre-school children
• German as a second language

Publications

• Publications (DIPF database of publications)

Selected publications

• Brandenburg, J., Fischbach, A., Labuhn, A. S., Rietz, C. S., Schmid, J., & Hasselhorn, M. (2016). Overidentification of learning disorders among language-minority students: Implications for the standardization of school achievement measures. Journal for Educational Research Online, 8, 42–65.
• Klesczewski, J., Brandenburg, J., Fischbach, A., Grube, D., Hasselhorn, M. & Büttner, G. (2015). Working memory functioning in children with poor mathematical skills: Relationships to IQ–achievement discrepancy and additional reading and spelling difficulties. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 223, 83–92. doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000206
• Schuchardt, K., Brandenburg, J., Fischbach, A., Büttner, G., Grube, D., Mähler, C. & Hasselhorn, M. (2015). Die Entwicklung des akademischen Selbstkonzeptes bei Grundschulkindern mit Lernschwierigkeiten. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 18, 513–526. doi:10.1007/s11618-015-0649-z
• Brandenburg, J., Klesczewski, J., Fischbach, A., Schuchardt, K., Büttner, G. & Hasselhorn, M. (2015). Working memory in children with learning disabilities in reading versus spelling: searching for overlapping and specific cognitive factors. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 48, 622–634. doi:10.1177/0022219414521665
• Brandenburg, J., Klesczewski, J., Fischbach, A., Büttner, G., Grube, D., Mähler, C. & Hasselhorn, M. (2013). Arbeitsgedächtnisfunktionen von Kindern mit Minderleistungen in der Schriftsprache: Zur Dissoziation von Lese- und Rechtschreibfertigkeiten und zur Relevanz des IQ-Diskrepanzkriteriums. Lernen und Lernstörungen, 2, 147–159. doi:10.1024/2235-0977/a000037
• Fischbach, A., Schuchardt, K., Brandenburg, J., Klesczewski, J., Balke-Melcher, C., Schmidt, C., Büttner, G., Grube, D., Mähler, C. & Hasselhorn, M. (2013). Prävalenz von Lernschwächen und Lernstörungen: Zur Bedeutung der Diagnosekriterien. Lernen und Lernstörungen, 2, 65–76. doi:10.1024/2235-0977/a000035