2023
February
The GEBF honors Eckhard Klieme
The Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) awards its Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Dr. Eckhard Klieme from the DIPF. With his research on schools, teaching and competence diagnostics, the current Research Fellow of the Institute has made a significant contribution to the further development of the education system.
February
Exchange on digital learning
The competence network “lernen:digital”, which aims to improve the dialogue between research and practice on the digitalization of schools and teacher training, is funded by the BMBF. The DIPF is involved in the transfer of knowledge through online portals, topic dossiers and information texts for elementary school, among other things.
March
Central OER contact point
The BMBF is funding the further development of the National Community Portal for Open Educational Resources (OERinfo). In addition to preparing information on open educational materials, the portal provided by the DIPF will interlink this knowledge even more and support science and practice with advice and transfer.
April
Part of DFG research group
The DIPF is involved in the DFG-funded research group “Critical Online Reasoning in Higher Education” (CORE). The interdisciplinary and international project investigates how students learn in a self-directed manner on the internet and how they select and process information there.
May
State of cultural education?
A feasibility study explains the systematic foundations on which a permanent reporting system on cultural education could be based. At the same time, it describes the state of cultural education in Germany. The basis of the study was a continuous exchange with research, practice and administration in this field.
June
15th birthday of the IDeA Center
The IDeA research center (Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk) based at the DIPF is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a children's party. At the same time, the former long-standing spokesperson of the center, Prof. Dr. Marcus Hasselhorn, is honored at an academic ceremony.
June
Focus on mental health
The research center “DYNAMIC - Dynamic Network Approach of Mental Health to Stimulate Innovations for Change” is included in the Hessian funding program “LOEWE”. The DIPF is involved in the center, which is supported by several institutions and investigates the causes and symptoms of mental illness.
July
A new look at school history
“School History in Germany” is published in an updated and expanded third edition. The book highlights developments in law, administration, politics, school education, school subjects, teacher training and the understanding of performance - with international references and illustrated with many pictures.
September
Digital Lab on the history of education
The BBF opens the “Digital History of Education Lab” (DHELab). It aims to support and reflect on the digital transformation of historical educational research - for example through access to digital collections or through networking and training. The lab starts with the online lecture series “Last Friday's Lab Talk”.
September
Social media and well-being
A new study by the DIPF is published in “Communications Psychology”. It shows that the use of social media is associated with lower levels of well-being among children and young people. According to the study, upward social comparisons play a central role in the development of this correlation.
October
Focus on sets of research data
Together with the Consortium for the Social, Behavioral, Educational and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD) in the national research data infrastructure, the “German Network of Educational Research Data” coordinated at the DIPF is launching the event series “Meet-the-Data@Education Research” on selected data sets.
November
Campus Schools Program starts
The Frankfurt Campus Schools Program, supported by the DIPF and Goethe University Frankfurt, is officially launched. The aim is to bring together school practice, educational research and teacher training in a constructive exchange to improve the educational opportunities of pupils at the participating schools.
November
App for self-regulated learning
As part of the Leibniz competition the “PROMPT 1.0” project is being funded for three years with a total of one million euros. The responsible team is developing and evaluating a learning plan app designed to provide children with long-term, individualized support for self-regulated learning using digital media.
November
DIPF coordinates Open Science Forum
Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger is elected spokesperson of the Leibniz Strategy Forum “Open Science” at its general meeting. The DIPF also takes over the coordination of the Forum, which supports the Leibniz Association in the further development of the subject area and bundles Open Science activities.
December
Co-editor of the PISA study
The OECD study “PISA 2022” is published. German young people perform worse in mathematics, reading and natural sciences than in the previous study in 2018. A DIPF team led by Prof. Dr. Frank Goldhammer was significantly involved in the German report volume and the accompanying research.
December
Abitur essay over the course of time
A compilation presents findings from the Leibniz Association-funded project “Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972”. The interdisciplinary project examined the historical transformation processes of the German Abitur essay by comparing Prussia, Bavaria, Baden and Württemberg.