Jun. Prof. Dr. Dominique Rauch

Projects

• Assessment of Student Achievements in German and English as a Foreign Language
• BiPeer – Facilitating German Reading skills in bilingual primary school children by peer-learning
• European Bank of Anchor Items for Foreign Language Skills
• Programme for International Student Assessment 2009
• SchuWaMi – School Change in a Society shaped by migration – School Culture(s) in the current context of forced migration
• Systematic Review: Interventions for Improving Language Skills in Three to Six-Year-Old Children
• meRLe – Promoting German reading skills via multilingual-sensitive reciprocal teaching

Curriculum vitae

2015	Appointment to junior professorship for educational science focusing on empirical educational research, Individual intervention and migration
2013 - 2016	Fellow of the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research jointly funded by BMBF, Jacobs Foundation and six Leibniz institutes (www.ciderweb.org)
2011	Graduation to Dr. phil. at the faculty for psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, subject of the doctoral thesis: "Contributions to reading competencies of persons with different language biographies", degree: summa cum laude (distinction) -  “Beiträge zur Lesekompetenz von Personen mit unterschiedlicher Sprachbiographie"
2005	Studied Psychology at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Goethe University Frankfurt, diploma
2002	Studied German (major in linguistics) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Master of Arts

Current research and work priorities

• Background-related disparities in student achievement
• Conditions and promotion of achievement in students from immigrant families
• Multilingualism and education
• Reading and arithmetics intervention in bilingual children

Professional activities

Since Oct 2015	Junior professor for Educational Science focusing on empirical educational research, Individual intervention and migration at the IDeA research centre (Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk). The professorship is organisationally affiliated to Goethe University and DIPF.
Jan - Sept 2015	Parental leave
Since Aug 2014	Head of research for BiPeer (“Facilitating German Reading skills in bilingual primary school children by peer-learning: On the meaning of peer language backgrounds and language of peer communication“), together with Dr. Jasmin Decristan, funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Feb - Apr 2014	Research visit to the University of Utrecht the Netherlands, chair: special education, in particular learning problems, Professor Dr. P. Leseman
2013 - 2016	Post-doc fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research
Aug 2012 - Aug 2013	Visiting researcher at the IDeA research centre (Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk)
Jan - Jul 2012	Management of a project on the assessment of the reduction of migration-related disparities in educational participation, based on PISA data, funding: Stiftung Mercator
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012	Parental leave
2009 - 2011	Programme for International Student Assessment 2009 (PISA), at DIPF, Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. E. Klieme), Funding: OECD and KMK
Sept 2008 - Apr 2009	Parental leave
2006 - 2007	Project German-English Student Achievement International (DESI), at DIPF, Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. E. Klieme), funding: Office of the Standing Conference of Ministers of Cultural Affairs (KMK), responsible for the international part of the project in South Tyrol Italy, funded by the autonomous province Bozen - Südtirol – German schools authority
2005 - 2008	Collaboration in the project “European Bank of Anchor Items for Foreign Language Skills“ (EBAFLS), at DIPF, Educational Quality and Evaluation (Prof. Dr. E. Klieme), funding: Sokrates Lingua 2 Programme of the European Commission and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Awards

• July 2010: Best Paper Award, Junior Researcher of EARLI Conference 2010 for the contribution "Dominique Rauch, Nina Jude, & Johannes Naumann: Metalinguistic Awareness Mediates Effects of Biliteracy on L3 Reading Comprehension".

Publications

Publications (DIPF database of publications)