Prof. Dr. Eckhard Klieme

Projects

• Assessment of Student Achievements in German and English as a Foreign Language
• Centre for International Student Assessment
• Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Processes
• Evaluation of the School Structural Reform in Bremen
• 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
• 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
• Science [makes] practice: what works well in instruction?
• StEG – 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

Publications

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