We are an interdisciplinary team that, in research and teaching, deals with how schools address student heterogeneity and inclusive schooling as well as related school development processes.
There are a lot of textbooks, specialist literature and other materials in the school development handbook that you can borrow.
Please send a loan request to schulentwicklung@uni-potsdam.de.
25.01.2024: Dr. Claudia Neuendorf gives an interview to SWR on the topic: "Nerds are popular"
01.02.2024: Theme: Self-assessed competence in inclusive teaching of teachers and the design of learning opportunities. "Journal of Education"
20.02.2024: Theme: Research on the social integration of high-performing students. "Shooting spree in Prague, doctors' strike, nerds"
11.03.2024: Podcast with Dr. Georg Lorenz on the topic: Various school classes promote the integration of refugee schoolchildren. "Podcast"
15.06.2024: Topic: Impact of school structural reforms on the educational ambitions of students "Study of educational assessment"
27. - 30.08.2024: Georg Lorenz and Chenru Hou presented research results from the MuHiK project
31.08.2024: We say goodbye to Carina Riedmiller as assistant in the department. "Former employee"
31.08.2024: We say goodbye to Georg Lorenz and congratulate him on his position as Assistant Professor in Utrecht. "Former employee"
01.09.2024: We welcome Lisa Roth as the new assistant in our department. "New employee"
03.09.2024: Svenja Hascher presents results from MuHiK project "How do teachers teach diverse classrooms?" at the "Future of Education" conference in Graz "conference in Graz"
04.09.2024: Topic: Relationship between teaching quality and class composition in classes with the same teacher "teaching quality"
12.-14.09.2024: Chenru Hou presented a lecture at the conference ECSR 2024 with research from MuHik projekt
16.09.2024: Dr. Claudia Neuendorf presents results from the MuHiK project at the DGPs conference in Vienna
18.09.2024: Topic: Youth involvement in sports clubs "sport club"
since October 2024: Svenja Hascher visits Prof. Patricia Jennings at the University of Virginia for six weeks from mid October on.
15.10.2024: We welcome Anna Picht as a new research assistant in our department.
The MuHiK project is looking to fill a position (100%, E13) as soon as possible. The project runs until 31.03.2026. More information here:
16. -18.10.2024: Claudia Neuendorf presented a poster with results from the MuHiK-project at the LEAD-retreat October 16th-18th in Schwäbisch-Gmünd.
06.11.2024: The Senate selected Dr. Peter Kossack as a representative of the mid-level academic staff as a member of the Commission for Development Planning and Finance.
On December 1st, 2023, our new colleague, Ms. Cindy Ballaschk, was welcomed to the professorship. She strengthens our team in the areas of research and teaching.
New publications:
Porsch, R., Schipolowski, S., Rjosk, C. & Sachse, K. A. (2023). Effects of an early start in learning English as a foreign language on reading and listening comprehension in Year 9. Language Teaching for Young Learners. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/ltyl.22017.por
Lorenz, G., Kogan, I., Gentrup, S., & Kristen, C. 2023. Non-native accents among school beginners and teacher expectations for future student achievements. Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407231202978.
Lorenz, G., Lenz, S., & Rjosk, C. (2023) Efficiency and social inequality in strictly performance-based educational systems. A critical review of the Model of Ability Tracking (MoAbiT). Zeitschrift für Soziologie. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2023-2028.
Since November 1st, 2023, we welcome 2 new team members to the Professorship of School Development. A warm welcome to Dr. Claudia Neuendorf, research assistant in the MuHiK project team, and Ms. Elena-Sevgi Hildebrand. She is strengthening the project team as a research assistant.
New Publication: Henschel, S., Rjosk, C. & Heinschel, A. (2023). Characteristics of teaching quality in the subject of German. In P. Stanat. S. Schipolowski, R. Schneider, S. Weirich, S. Henschel & K. A. Sachse (Hrsg.), IQB-Bildungstrend 2022. Sprachliche Kompetenzen am Ende der 9. Jahrgangsstufe im dritten Ländervergleich (S. 359-387). Waxmann. https://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/bt/BT2022/Bericht/
The Professorship of School Development welcomes two new employees as of October 15, 2023. On the one hand, Ms. Emily Waap supports the Professorship as a research assistant and on the other hand, Mr. Martin Bücher (M.A.) strengthens the Professorship as an academic employee in teaching and research.
We are delighted to welcome two new employees to the School Development department on October 1, 2023. Theresa Mros (M.Ed. & M.A.) is doing her doctorate on the importance of identification with the culture of origin and host culture for learning and professionalization processes in the school context and is strengthening our work area in teaching and research. We also welcome Annika Scheerer, who supports our work area as a research assistant, especially with regard to improving the quality of teaching. Welcome!
New publication: Künstler-Sment, J., Kocaj, A., Lorenz, G.; Jansen, M. (2023): Are adolescents more socially integrated in all-day schools than in half-day schools? Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie. doi: 10.1024/1010-0652/a000370
New publication: Sachse,K.A., Weirich, S., Mahler, N., Rjosk, C.(2023): Explaining performance decline over the course of taking comprehensive proficiency tests: the roles of effort and omission propensity. International Journal of Testing. DOI: 10.1080/15305058.2023.2250889
New publication: [among others by Rogge, F.]: The development of technology-related beliefs in the context of inclusive education professionalization in secondary school teacher training during the Corona semesters.QfI -Qualification for Inclusion
New publication: [among others by Lorenz, G.] in Nature Human Behaviour: Ethnic diversity in school classes promotes positive social relationships among refugee youth. Press release
