Dr. Lisa Teufele
Research Associate | TUM
Dr. Lisa Teufele has been a research assistant in data management at the Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB) since 2024 and works in national project management for the PISA study at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research focuses on German for professional purposes, digital testing, the relationship between immigrant background and school performance, language acquisition, and integrated subject and language learning.
Vita
- Research associate in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology (since 04/2024)
- Doctoral Student, Department of German as a Foreign Language and Language for Specific Purposes (“Professional communication skills of experiences immigrants“, 10/2020 – 04/2024)
- Research associate at the Chair of German as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Augsburg (10/2020 – 03/2024)
- Global Mobility Consultant at Deloitte and Inhouse Mobility GmbH (09/2018 – 09/2020)
- Lecturer for German as a Second Language in integration courses and teacher for vocational integration classes (11/15 – 08/2018)
- Master German as a Foreign Language at Philipps-Universität Marburg (01/2014 – 10/2015)
- Head of the Intercultural Training and Lecturer for German as a Second Language and Language for Specific Purposes at the German Jordanian University (09/2013 – 06/2015)
- Lecturer for German as a Foreign Language and examiner at the Goethe Institut Jordan (04/2012 – 07/2015)
- Master International Development and Management at Lund University, Sweden (08/2010 – 06/2012)
- Bachelor Politics and Society at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (10/2007 – 08/2010)
Reserach Interests
German for Professional Purposes
Digital Testing
Migration Background and School Achievement
Language Acquisition
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Activities
- PISA 2025
- PISA 2022
Selected Publications
- Selva, C. & Teufele, L. (2025). How reading competence and age at arrival shape educational outcomes: An analysis of academic success among immigrant students in Germany using data from PISA 2012-2022. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Centre for International Student Assessment, Technial University of Munich
- Teufele, L., Diedrich, D., & Greiff, S. (2025). Research Knowledge Mobilization in the context of the federal educational landscape in Germany: An Analysis of the interplay between educational research and educational policy and practice. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Centre for International Student Assessment, Technical University of Munich
- Müller, M., Teufele, L., Bias, A., Diedrich, J., González Rodríguez, E., González Uriarte, A., Heine, J.-H., Heinle, M., Kastorff, T., Mang, J., Patzl, S., Seßler, S., Todtenhöfer, P.,Tupac-Yupanqui, A., Weis, M., Ziernwald, L., Lewalter, D. (2025). PISA 2022 Skalenhandbuch. Dokumentation der Erhebungsinstrumente [Pisa 2022 Scale Manual: Documentation oft he Assessment Instruments]. Waxmann.
- Teufele, L. (2025). Berufssprachliche Kompetenzen berufserfahrener Zugewanderter [Professional language skills of experienced migrants]. Dissertation. Narr Francke Attempto.
- Teufele, L. (2024). Sprache(n) am Arbeitsplatz. Eine empirische Untersuchung der Passgenauigkeit theoretischer Modelle zur Erfassung von Sprache im Beruf [Language(s) in the workplace. An empirical study of the accuracy of theoretical models for recording language in the workplace]. Sprache im Beruf, 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.25162/sprib-2024-0001
- Teufele, L. (2022). Language Gatekeeping am Arbeitsmarkt [Language gatekeeping in the labor market]. Zeitschrift im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit, 49 (5), 206–218. https://doi.org/10.14220/odaf.2022.38.1.206
- Teufele, L. (2022). Lost in translation? Kritische Anmerkungen zur Validität berufsbezogener Sprachtests [Lost in translation? Critical remarks on the validity of job-related language tests]. Info DaF, 49 (5), 536–554. https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2022-0070