Current Projects

Students’ learning motivation

  • The importance of classroom goal structure for students’ psychosocial development (with Jeanne Friedel and Julie Turner)
  • The role of learning motivation for achievement from a cross-cultural perspective (SAMIC; with Kara Makara and Sari Arel)

Adolescence and transition to young adulthood

  • School-to-work transition in the United States and Germany (with Jacque Eccles, Juergen Baumert, and Corinne Alfeld)
  • Students’ future orientation (with Nicole Neblett)

Analyzing and evaluating teaching practice

  • Eye-Tracking Project (with Kevin Miller)
    Making Room for Student Thinking (with Kevin Miller, Vilma Mesa, Mark Thames))
  • Story-Telling Story Acting Activity in Preschools (with Ageliki Nikolopoulou)

Multivariate statistics

  • Undestanding Lord’s paradox (with Ryan Mckenzie and Ralf Woelfer)
  • Hierarchical Linear Modeling for longitudinal data (with Anand Pant and Joanne Smith-Darden)
  • Structural Equation Modeling and MANOVA (with Ingeborg Stelzl)

German school system (in German)

  • Das Bildungswesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (with Achim Leschinsky)
  • Privatschule