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title: Dr. Tamara Kastorff
url: "https://www.zib.education/en/team/dr-tamara-kastorff/"
date: 2022-12-16
modified: 2025-11-26
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# Dr. Tamara Kastorff

Dr. Tamara Kastorff
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Research Associate | TUM

 Dr. Tamara Kastorff has been a research associate and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB) since 2022. Her research focuses on digital and scientific literacy, educational inequalities, and school- and system-level factors for reducing educational disparities.

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  Vita
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- Research Associate and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
- Doctorate (Dr. phil., Psychology) at LMU Munich (2019–2022)
- Master’s in Psychology: Learning Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (2021–2022)
- Master’s in Research on Teaching and Learning at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (2017–2019)
- Bachelor of Education at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (2014–2017)

   **Research Interests**
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- Digital literacy
- Scientific literacy
- Educational inequalities

   **Responsibilities**
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- PISA 2025 Learning in the Digital World
- PISA 2025 Scientific Literacy
- PISA Vocational Education and Training (VET)

   **Selected Publications**
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- **Kastorff,** T. & Heine, J. H. (2025). Status and Scientific Literacy: Expanding Educational Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from PISA 2018 and 2022. *Large-Scale Assessments in Education*. Advanced Online Publication.
- **Kastorff, T**., Müller, M., & Greiff, S. (2025). Digital media use and availability can mitigate the digital divide: Meta-analytic insights from PISA 2022*. Computers & Education, 238,* 105409. [doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105409](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105409)
- **Kastorff, T**., Müller, M., Selva, C., Greiff, S., & Moser, S. (2025). Fakten oder Fake News? Wie Jugendliche ihre digitale Informationskompetenz einschätzen und welche Rolle Schulen und Lehrkräfte dabei spielen*. Waxmann*. <https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830999935>
- **Kastorff, T**., Greiff, S., & Neumann, K. (2025). *Scientific Literacy.* In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement.

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