Center for Empirical Educational Research
The Center for Empirical Educational Research (zepf) is a central research facility of the University of Koblenz-Landau on the Landau campus .
history
Zepf was founded in 1971 by Karlheinz Ingenkamp . In 1987 Reinhold S. Jäger took over the management. From 1992 onwards, the zepf was headed by a collegial management made up of Jäger, Peter Nenniger and Roland Arbinger. Ingmar Hosenfeld has been managing director since October 2011 and since 2015 the collegial management has consisted of him, Gabriele E. Dlugosch and Michael Zimmer-Müller.
research
The research activities at zepf are primarily application-oriented and cover a wide range of educational and psychological topics. Measurement instruments are developed (diagnostics), surveys are carried out, concepts are created, their implementation is supported (intervention) and the quality and effectiveness of measures are checked (evaluation). Around 25 research assistants work in the various research areas, supported by three secretaries and around 10 student assistants.
Currently, zepf is heavily involved in the implementation and evaluation of comparative work in the third and eighth grades (VERA 3 and VERA 8). Here, schools and teachers from seven federal states are supervised by the employees in the comparative work in the third grade and four federal states in the eighth grade. This is followed by evaluation studies on instruments for school development.
Another thematic focus is on the subjects of "health and well-being". Here, health-psychological research questions are processed in an application-oriented manner and prevention and health promotion measures are designed, implemented in practice and scientifically supported.
Publisher Empirical Pedagogy (VEP)
The journalistic mainstay of zepf is the publishing house Empirische Pädagogik, in which several scientific journals (empirical pedagogy, teacher training on the test bench, articles on teaching foreign languages) as well as books and book series with primarily educational relevance appear.