Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn
Executive Director of DIPF
Education and Human Development
Rostocker Straße 6
60323
Frankfurt am Main
Projects
- BiSS – Education Through Language and Writing
- Coordinating Office for the BMBF Research Priority Domain “Cause-related Individual Diagnostics and Intervention in Defined School-related Developmental Disorders“ (ESF)
- DERET – German Spelling Test for the Fifth and Sixth School Year
- Evaluation of the School Structural Reform in Bremen
- Frostigs Entwicklungstest der visuellen Wahrnehmung
- Hector – Formative Evaluation of Hector Children’s Academies
- LONDI – The Development of an Online Platform for Diagnosis and Remediation of Children with Learning Disabilities
- LeA – Learning Acceleration
- LexPro Training
- LexPro – Processes of reading and methods of intervention in dyslexic readers
- MEMO – Working memory influences on rehearsal-strategy development in dyslectic children
- Moral development in childhood and adolescence
- PREDICT – Prediction Generation as a Tool to Activate Children’s Prior Knowledge and Improve Learning
- ReAL – Neurobehavioral Development of Reading and Arithmetic Skills – A Longitudinal Study
- Science [makes] practice: what works well in instruction?
- Standardisation of the Working Memory Test Battery
- Systematic Review: Interventions for Improving Language Skills in Three to Six-Year-Old Children
- TRIO – Language Education in Early Child Care Centers
- ViWa – Visual Perception
- iLearn – Individual Formative Assessment for Adaptive Support of Children with Reading Difficulties
Curriculum Vitae
| since August 2012 | Executive Director of DIPF |
| 2008 – 2012 | Deputy Executive Director of DIPF |
| since 2008 | Scientific Coordinator and Speaker of the Hessian LOEWE Center IDeA (Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk |
| since 2007 | Professor of Psychology focusing on Education and Human Developmennt, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt/M. |
| 1997 – 2007 | Professor for Educational Psychology and Developmental Psychology, University Göttingen |
| 1993 – 1997 | Professor (C3) for developmental psychology at TU Dresden |
| 1993 | Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Psychology, Göttingen University |
| 1992/93 | Stand-in professor (C4 Developmental Psychology), Koblenz-Landau University |
| 1986 | Graduation to Dr. phil., Heidelberg University |
| 1985 – 1993 | Scientific researcher, academic councillor, Institute for Psychology, Göttingen University |
| 1983 – 1985 | Doctoral scholarship at Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, in the department of Developmental Psychology (chair: Prof. Dr. F.E. Weinert) () |
| 1983 | Final diploma examination in Psychology, Heidelberg University |
| 1979 | Intermediate diploma examination in Psychology - Göttingen University |
| 1978 | Final examination in the professional training of industfrial clerk, Chamber ofIndustry and Commerce, Hannover-Hildesheim |
Research Interests
Ontogenesis of individual conditions of successful learning
- Göttingen developmental study on language, working memory and theory of Mind (GESAgT)
- Differential development of memory strategies of children aged eight to twelve
Optimising individual competencies in accordance with development, the mature school child
- Learning disabilities and learning disorders
- Standardisation and validation of a working memory test battery for children aged five to twelve years (AGTB)
- German spelling test for grades 5 and 6 (DERET)
Plasticity late in life
Posssibilities of changing and influencing cognitive learning conditions
- Working memory
- Attention
- Neuronal: modelling, EEG data (Bernstein-Center)
- Behavioural: Negative priming experiments
Other:
- GRK 1195 ("Passungsverhältnisse schulischen Lernens: Verstehen und Optimieren")
- Competencies of assessment (in the priority programme for the diagnosis of competencies)
- Participation in FG initiative working memory/ executive control throughout the lifespan
LOEWE initiative:“Research Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education
(in co-operation with other DIPF centers and with colleagues from three different faculties of Frankfurt University)
Contributions to External Expert Groups
- Member of the WilhelmWundt society; Germany: since 2005
- Member of the science academy, Göttingen –Mathematical-physical class; Germany: since 2005
- Steering group member of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg for the project “Schulreifes Kind“ (school readiness); Germany : since 2009
- Membership in the scientific advisory board at the Institute for Science Media; Tübingen; Germany: since 2010
- Membership in the higher education council, Kassel university; Germany: since 2010
- Member of the curatorship, Psychological university Berlin; Germany: since 2010
Roles Regarding Scientific Journals and Publication Series
- Standards der Psychologie (Standards in Psychology, co-editor): Kohlhammer-Verlag, Germany: since 2008
- Tests & Trends; Jahrbuch der pädagogisch-psychologischen Diagnostik (Yearbook of pedagogical-psychological diagnostics, co-editor): Hogrefe-Verlag, Germany, since 2000
Publications
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May 23, 2019