Dr. Jennifer Diedrich
Deputy National Project Lead PISA | TUM
Jennifer Diedrich has been part of the PISA team since January 2018. Following her PhD in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Organizational Development, she primarily serves as the Deputy Head of the PISA National Center. Her research interests are diverse but all relate to large-scale assessment.
Vita
- Deputy Lead PISA National Center (since November 2020)
- Project Coordinator for PISA and Research Associate at the Center for International Student Assessment (ZIB) (January 2018 – October 2020)
- Scientific Project Lead, Academy of Lower Austria (Niederösterreichische Landesakademie) (September 2015 – December 2016)
- Research Associate, Academy of Lower Austria (Niederösterreichische Landesakademie) (August 2012 – August 2015)
- Doctoral studies in Psychology (with distinction; dissertation title: Assessment of Creativity) at the University of Graz (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) (October 2012 – November 2017)
- Project Management Training (April 2017 – June 2017)
- Master’s Program in Supervision, Coaching, and Organizational Development at ARGE Bildungsmanagement, Vienna (November 2014 – June 2019)
- Diploma Program in Psychology (thesis title: Development of a Talent Screening Instrument for Children in Their Final Year of Kindergarten) at the University of Graz (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) (October 2006 – October 2012), including study visits in Waterloo, Canada, and Sussex, United Kingdom
Reserach Interests
- Educational comparison studies – student dispositions and contextual factors
- Innovative domains
- Creativity – identification of creative talent, creativity techniques
Activities
- Deputy National Project Lead PISA
- National Project Manager PISA
- Coordination with national and international project and cooperation partners
- Team management
- Contracts
Selected Publications
- Jauk, E., Eberhardt, L., Koschmieder, C., Diedrich, J., Pretsch, J., Benedek, M. & Neubauer, A. (2019). A new measure for the assessment of parreciation for creative personality. Creativity research journal, 31 (2), 149-163.
- Diedrich, J., Jauk, E., Silvia, P.J., Gredlein, J.M., Neubauer, A.C. & Benedek, M. (2017). Assessment of real-life creativity: the inventory of creative activities and achievements (ICAA). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, online first.
- Schillinger, F., Vogel, S., Diedrich, J., & Grabner, R. (2017). Math anxiety is inversely related to performance in mathematics beyond individual differences in intelligence and arithmetic abilities: insights from the german adaptation of the abrieviated math anxiety scale (AMAS). Learning and individual differences, 61,109-119.
- Diedrich, J., Benedek, M., Jauk, E. & Neubauer, A.C. (2015). Are creative ideas novel and useful? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 9 (1), 35-40.