Eckhard Klieme

Current activities and fields of research

Fundamental research

• Instructional quality, school effectiveness and school development
• Measurement and assessment of student achievement (large scale assessment, formative assessment)
• Evaluation in
  
• International comparative educational research

Applied research and development:

• Member of the national consortia for PISA 2000, 2006 and 2009, of the international and national expert group for “problem solving“ - PISA 2003, of the international consortium and the international expert group on questionnaires - PISA 2009
• Co-author of the OECD teacher survey TALIS (Teaching and Learning International Survey) (since 2005)
• Representative for Germany in the International Association for the Evaluation of Student Achievement (IEA) (since 2008)
• Member of the expert group for the project  “Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills” (since 2009)
• Advising/counselling the federal government and Länder states on issues of educational monitoring, for instance by the expertise „Zur Entwicklung nationaler Bildungsstandards“ [On the development of national educational standards] (main author, 2003)

Manager of research projects (selection)

•  Use and effects of measuring competencies in mathematical learning and teaching processes (DFG project within the priority programme, since autumn 2007)
•  PISA 2009/Germany (since April 2007)
•  National educational report and research on indicators (consortial project on behalf of the KMK and BMBF, 2006-2008)
•  Study on the Development of All-day Schools (StEG) (since 2004)
•  In-depth comparison of education systems of selected PISA countries (international project on behalf of the BMBF, 2002-2003)
•  DESI (Assessment of student achievement in German and English as a Foreign Language, on behalf of the KMK, 2001-2006)
•  Instructional quality and mathematical understanding in different cultures; project (Kl 1057/3) in the DFG priority programme on educational quality (2000-2006)

Teaching priorities

• Empirical research methods
• Research on school quality and school development
• Assessing competencies and achievement

Positions held in committees and journals (selection)

•  Initiator and speaker of the DFG [German Research Foundation] priority programme “Models of competencies for the assessment of individual learning outcomes and the evaluation of educational processes” (in collaboration with D. Leutner, since 2007)
• Scientific Board member of the “Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education (IDeA)” of the DIPF and Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M. (since 2008)
• Speaker of the working group for empirical educational research (AEPF) and of the section “Empirical educational research” of the German Society for Educational Science, DGfE  (2003-2006)
• Co-Initiator of the DFG priority programme ”Educational Quality  of Schools“ (1999)
• Member of the Foundation Council of the Leibniz Institute for Science Education, Kiel
• Member of the Advisory Board at the Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and Development in Austrian Schools (bifie), Salzburg
• Advisory Board Member of the PIAAC study for Germany
• Co-author of the „Zeitschrift für Pädagogik“ [Journal for Education] (since 2004) and member of the editorial board (since 2005)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the “International Journal of Research & Method in Education” (since 2004)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the „Zeitschrift für Entwicklungpsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie“ [Journal for Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology] (ZEPP) (since 2008)