PD Dr. Carmen Köhler

Academic Staff

Educational Measurement

Teacher and Teaching Quality

Rostocker Straße 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

+49 (0)69-24708-122

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Projects

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Period of time Occupation
Since 01/2016 Research associate at the department of Educational Measurement at the DIPF (Advisor: Johannes Hartig)
06/2015 – 08/2015 Internship at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ
2012 – 2015 PhD student; dissertation topic: "Isn’t Something Missing? Latent Variable Models Accounting for Item Nonresponse", Freie Universität Berlin (Advisors: Steffi Pohl & Claus H. Carstensen)
2012 – 2015 Research assistant in the research project “Modeling Missing Data in Competence Tests” of the Priority Programme “Education as a Lifelong Process” (founded by the German Research Foundation [DFG]; PO1655/1-1)
2011 – 2012 Tutor for statistics in SPSS im Fachbereich Psychologie der Universität Trier
2007 – 2012 Psychology Major, University of Trier

Current work and research priorities

  • Item Response Theory (IRT) models, especially item fit and missing values
  • Latent longitudinal and multilevel models in educational research
  • Models for capturing the effects of teaching
  • Model-based competence diagnostics
  • Digital and media literacy

Selected Teaching and Workshops 

Teachings

Period of time Occupation
SS 2023 Seminar „Differential Psychology“ (Goethe University Frankfurt)
WS 2022/2023 Practical Course “Statistics for Psychologists: Fundamentals” (Goethe University Frankfurt)
SS 2022 Lecture „Introduction to Diagnostics“ (TU Darmstadt)
WS 2020/2021 Practical Course: „Statistics for Psychologists: Fundamentals" (Goethe University Frankfurt)
SS 2020 Seminar „Research Methods and Evaluation II“ (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Workshops

Period of time Occupation
03/2023 Workshop „IRT für Fortgeschrittene mit R“ at the Spring School 2023 of the Institut for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB), Berlin, Germany
03/2023 Workshop „Einführung in die Item-ResponseTheorie“ within the BMBF funding regulation "Funding-related diagnostics in inclusive education" at the Goethe University Frankfurt
09/2022 Workshop „Item-Response-Theorie zur Kompetenzmodellierung und Skalierung in den Bildungswissenschaften“ at the Graduate Academy of Teacher Evaluation Colleges (graph), Karlsruhe, Germany
05/2020 Workshop „Einführung in die Item Response Theorie“ per video chat at the Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS) at the TU Dortmund University, Germany
09/2019 Workshop „Einführung in die Item Response Theorie mit R“ during the 2019 Method Week of the Method Center Social Sciences of the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Selected Presentations

  • Köhler, C. (2022, June). Modellierung von Effekten im Mehrebenen-Setting: Unter welchen Bedingungen sollte der Prätest zusätzlich auf Level 2 modelliert werden? Invited guest lecture in the statistical-psychometric research seminar of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany.
  • Köhler, C. (2021, October). Challenges when Estimating Effects in Nonrandomized Educational Studies. Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Köhler, C. (2019, October). Detecting Item Misfit in Educational Testing. Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Köhler, C., Hartig, J., & Schmid, C. (2019, May). Deciding Between the Covariance Analytical Approach and the Change-Score Approach in Two Wave Panel Data. Invited guest lecture at the research colloquium of the IQB, Berlin, Germany.
  • Köhler, C., Hartig, J., & Naumann, A. (2019, January). Estimation of Random Group DIF using Two- and Three-Level GLMMs. Invited presentation in the Symposium “Scales comparability in large scale cross‐country assessments” at the 5th Lisbon Economics and Statistics in Education (LESE) meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Memberships

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