Institute for Quality Development in Education
The Institute for Educational Progress ( IQR ) is a 2004 founded an institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin . The central task of the IQB is the further development, operationalization, standardization and review of educational standards . It is a scientific institution of the German federal states .
The institute became particularly important after the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs decided in March 2012 that from 2017 all high school diploma exams nationwide should come from a common pool. The IQB was commissioned to develop this pool.
The director is (as of January 2019) Petra Stanat .
Education trend (formerly "country comparison")
As part of its overall strategy for educational monitoring, the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs decided to carry out country comparisons on a regular basis. The aim of the country comparison studies is to determine the extent to which students in Germany achieve the educational standards that are binding for all countries and in which areas there is a need for control. The corresponding surveys take place in the primary level in the subjects German and mathematics every five years, in the lower secondary level alternately in the subject groups German, English and French on the one hand and mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics on the other hand every three years.
VERA (comparative tests in school)
The name VERA stands for United equalization a ork on the 3rd and 8th grade (VERA 3 and VERA 8). Comparative assignments are written assignments in the form of tests that examine across the board and year-by-year which competences students have achieved at a certain point in time. The IQB coordinates the development of the test material for VERA (comparative work in school) , tests the material and puts it together in test booklets.
High school exams
In 2012, the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) decided to set up a nationwide pool for Abitur examination tasks. This task pool should enable the same requirements in the Abitur exams nationwide. Part of the IQB's mandate within the project is the evaluation of the use of tasks in the pools. It should contribute to a greater comparability of the requirements associated with the Abitur examinations of the federal states and to ensure the quality of the tasks of the pools. To this end, a formative evaluation of the use of the Abitur task pools and the use of the tasks in the federal states was carried out for the first time in the 2017 examination year.
Research at the IQB
The IQB was established as an affiliated institute at the Humboldt University in Berlin in order to provide service tasks for the 16 countries in the Federal Republic of Germany on the basis of scientific independence. The performance of these scientific service tasks requires research activities that can be classified into three superordinate research areas:
- Research on the optimization of instruments and analysis methods of the IQB
- Research on the usability and use of the IQB's instruments and feedback processes
- Content-related topics that are of particular interest from the point of view of the federal states, e.g. B. Dealing with heterogeneity
Web links
- Literature from and about the Institute for Quality Development in Education in the catalog of the German National Library
- Institute website
- Institute's Facebook page
Individual evidence
- ↑ see list of affiliated institutes of the HU under archive link ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
