Current ZIB projects

Completed projects

The current ZIB projects cover four programme areas: educational monitoring, school and teaching research, methodological research and research syntheses. The ZIB thus covers a wide spectrum in the area of large-scale assessments and provides significant impetuses in educational research. Research at the ZIB is characterised by its focus on application, so that findings can also be employed in practice. The following overview provides an insight into the current projects:

Educational monitoring

• Preparation, execution and evaluation of the PISA studies (PISA 2022)
• ReLeK: Learning Resources in Times of Crises

School and teaching research

• Framework conditions of general education and vocational schools: school profiles and implemented activities
• Secondary analysis competence teachers

• Classroom experience, characteristics and outcome: multidimensional educational goals and the views of students and teachers (PISA-Ceco)

Research syntheses

• Digital Reading
• Promoting teacher self-efficacy. A research synthesis.
• Self-regulated Learning

Methodological research

• National add-on study on mode effects in PISA 2018
• Missing data in educational research
• Diagnostics of processes of evaluating integrating and understanding distributed information
• Methodological challenges in estimating trends and cross country comparisons in school performance studies

Associated projects (PISA working group)

• Relationships between maternal socialization goals and practices and children’s self-regulation in different cultural contexts
• Investigation of sampling weights in hierarchical regression using PISA sampling structures
• Migration Background, Socia Background, and Reading Competence: The Role of Language Spoken at Home, Kindergarten Attendance, and Digital Games
• ReCo - Automatically Processing Text Responses from Large-Scale Assessments
• Item Fit - Statistical and practical significance of non-compliant items in empirical educational studies
• Validation of Creative Thinking in PISA 2022 and Automated Coding of Written Responses
• Linking implicit measures of eye movements to explicit responses on self-report measures – A cross cultural comparison (ImplEyCit)
• Assessing Global Scientific Literacy: A Comparative Analysis of PISA 2015 Results
• A comparison of the development of STEM aspirations in Germany and Canada from PISA 2006 to PISA 2015: Investigating the relationship between motivation in science, realistic career aspirations, and science teaching