Prof. Dr. Eckhard Klieme

Projects

• Assessment of Student Achievements in German and English as a Foreign Language
• Centre for International Comparative Assessments of Education – ZIB
• Comparison of the Education Systems of Germany and Canada
• Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Processes
• Conditions and Consequences of Classroom Assessment
• Evaluation of the School Structural Reform in Bremen
• Implementing new Governance Structures in School Systems: the Example of Centralised Exams for Higher Education Qualifications
• In Depth Comparison of School Systems of Selected States Participating in PISA
• MEChS – Modeling Educational Effectiveness and Equity at the School Level
• OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey
• PISA 2012 – International Consortium
• PISA 2015
• PISA 2018
• Programme for International Student Assessment 2009
• Quality of Instruction and Mathematical Understanding in Different Cultures of Instruction
• SLICES – Using the thin slices technique to analyse school lessons: A reanalysis of large-scale datasets on constructive handling of student errors
• SchiWa – Schools in Times of Change
• School Educational Governance Structures
• Science [makes] practice: what works well in instruction?
• Social Networks of Young Researchers in Empirical Educational Research
• Study on the Development of All-Day Schools
• TALIS Video Study for Germany
• Teaching and Learning International Survey – Video Study (TALIS-Video)
• elbe – Parental counseling at primary schools

Academic and Professional Career

Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Eckhard Klieme (pdf)

Qualifications

2000	Habilitation in Educational Science, Freie Universität Berlin
1988	Dr. phil. in Psychology, University of Bonn
1981	Diploma in Psychology University of Bonn
1978	Diploma in Mathematics, University of Bonn

Curriculum Vitae

2015	Distinguished Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Boston
2013–2014	Visiting Scholar at Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton
2008–2009	Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST), University of California, Los Angeles and at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Palo Alto
2006	Offer of the University of Zurich (successor to Prof. Dr. Helmut Fend, rejected)
2004–2008	Director of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
Since 2001	Professor (C4/W3) for Educational Science at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
Since 2001	Director of the Department for Educational Quality and Evaluation at DIPF, Frankfurt am Main
1998–2001	Senior researcher at the Max–Planck Institute for Human Development , research area “Educational Science and Educational Systems”, Berlin
1986–1989	Lecturer at the Institute for Psychology, University of Bonn
1983–1997	Academic staff member at the Institute for Research on Tests and Giftedness, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes [German Academic Foundation], Bonn
1971–1981	Studied Mathematics, Communication Science, Psychology and Pedagogy, University of Bonn

Awards

2014	Honorary doctoral degree, University of Liège, Belgium
2014	Research award from the German Society ffor Educational Science (DGfE)
2013	Honorary Professor, Durham University
2010	Science prize "Society needs Science“ awarded by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
1971–1977	Scholarship holder, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes [German National Academic Foundation]

Current Work and Research Priorities

Research priorities

• School effectiveness and teaching quality
• Assessment of (student) achievement in schools (large scale assessment, formative assessment)
• International-comparative  educational research

Teaching priorities

• Research on school and teaching quality
• Educational measurement (competencies, achievement)
• Educational monitoring and international comparison    

Publications

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