Manfred Prenzel

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Manfred Prenzel (born June 11, 1952 in Forchheim ) is a German educational scientist , educational researcher and professor at the Technical University of Munich . From mid-2014 to the beginning of 2017 he was chairman of the Science Council .

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After studying pedagogy, psychology and sociology, Prenzel obtained an MA (1976) and a Dr. phil. (1980). As a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Hans Schiefele , he completed his habilitation (pedagogy and educational psychology) in 1987. Until 1993 he was senior assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Heinz Mandl and then professor for educational psychology at the university Regensburg . Since 1997 he has been working at the Institute for Science Education (IPN) as director of the educational science department and professor for education at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Since 2000 he has been Managing Director of the Institute for Science Education (IPN).

In 2009 he moved to the Technical University of Munich as the founding dean of the TUM School of Education , which is financed by Susanne Klatten . In 2011, Prenzel became a member of the Science Council , which he chaired on July 1, 2014. His term of office on the Science Council ended in early 2017. Since April 2018, Prenzel has been Professor of Empirical Educational Research relating to Teacher Education at the Institute for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna and Head of the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna.

His research areas are teaching-learning research and educational research , especially the conception of scientific education and the recording of scientific competence , learning motivation and interest, learning transfer and application of knowledge, teaching patterns and learning processes , quality development in mathematics and science teaching, educational monitoring and international school performance comparisons (large-scale assessments or LSA).

Prenzel is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) . In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

Current focus of work / projects

  • Head of the pilot program "Increasing the efficiency of math and science teaching": SINUS-Transfer elementary school
  • National project manager for PISA 2003 and 2006, member of the international PISA Science Expert Group of the OECD, member of the German PISA Consortium 2009
  • Panel study on the course of studies of future teachers
  • National educational panel: competence pillar natural sciences, mathematics, computer literacy

Selection of recent publications

  • as publisher: PISA 2006 in Germany: the skills of young people in the third country comparison. PISA Consortium Germany. Waxmann, Münster a. a. 2008.
  • with CH Carstensen and Jürgen Baumert : Trend analysis: How did competencies in Germany develop between PISA 2000 and PISA 2006? In: Journal for Educational Science. Special issue 10, 2008, pp. 11–34.
  • with B. Drechsel: Learn from comparative studies. Structure, implementation and interpretation of international comparative studies. (= School Management Handbook. No. 126). Oldenbourg, Munich 2008.
  • with Peter Fauser and M. Schratz (eds.): What for schools! Good school in Germany. The German School Prize 2007. Klett / Kallmeyer, Seelze-Velber 2008.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ TUM edu
  2. ↑ tum.de
  3. ↑ Federal President appoints new members to the Science Council. Wissenschaftsrat , January 23, 2017, accessed on November 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ New professorships at the University of Vienna: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Prenzel. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Prenzel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educational scientist a. PISA studies coordinator
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Forchheim