Dr. Janine Buchholz

Projects

• PISA 2015
• PISA 2018

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2016	Post-doc researcher in the Educational Measurement research group (Prof. Johannes Hartig)
Since 2015	Research scientist in PISA 2015 und PISA 2018
2013	Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, School of Education. Amherst, MA (USA)
2013	ETS Summer Internship (Educational Testing Service), Research and Development; Princeton, NJ (USA)
2010 – 2016	Research assistant and doctoral student in the Educational Measurement research group (Prof. Johannes Hartig). DIPF, Frankfurt. Title of PhD thesis: "Mehrdimensionale Item-Response-Theorie zur Modellierung Konstrukt-irrelevanter Varianz bei der Beurteilung der Validität" [Multidimensional Item Response Theory for modelling construct-irrelevant variance when judging the validity]
2010	M.Sc. Psychology at the University of Erfurt (Title of Master’s thesis: "Funnel Plots als Instrument zur Identifikation von Publikationsbias – Ein Experiment mit simulierten Meta-Analysen" [Funnel plots for the identification of publication bias – An experiment with simulated meta-analyses])

Current Research Activities

• PISA 2015 and PISA 2018: Scaling the student, parent, teacher and school questionnaires for the international field trial and main study data with a focus on the analysis of invariance
• Sources of construct-irrelevant variance in questionnaires and the question of validity
• Modeling response processes in large scale assessments (e.g. position effects)

• Multidimensional models of Item Response Theory

Publications

• Publications (DIPF database of publications)
• List of Publications (pdf)

Teaching and Workshops

Since 2013	Workshops on SEM and IRT using R, Mplus, ConQuest, and IRTPRO
Since 2013	Seminar "Introduction to Psychological Statistics" - Part I and Part II, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Psychology
2009 – 2012	Seminars on Quantitative research methods and Introduction to SPSS, University of Erfurt, Institute of Communication Sciences
2008 – 2010	Student research assistant and teaching assistant, University of Erfurt, Center for Psychological Methods

Other Professional Activities

Representative of junior researchers within the “Methods and Evaluation” division of DGPs, the German Psychological Association

Memberships

• German Psychological Association (DGPs)
• National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

Ad-hoc reviewer

• Educational and Psychological Measurement (EPM)      
• European Journal of Psychological Assessment (EJPA)
• Journal for Educational Research Online (JERO)
• Large-scale Assessments in Education (LSAE)
• Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling (PTAM)