CIDER-LERN Events

October 8, 2018 - October 9, 2018 | CIDER Workshop

In October 2018, the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) and the Leibniz Education Research Network (LERN) organized their second interdisciplinary workshop for doctoral and postdoctoral educational researchers. It takes place at the Leibniz Association’s Headquarters in Berlin.

The general aim of the workshop was to extend the CIDER network to other LERN institutes and universities in order to facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation among educational researchers.

Part of the workshop program was a Keynote Lecture on “Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)” by Prof. Dr. Peter Steiner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a Plenary Debate on “Ability Tracking in Secondary Education” with the following guests: Prof. Dr. Herman van de Werfhorst (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Martina Diedrich (Institute for Educational Monitoring (IfBQ), Hamburg), Dr. Michael Becker (DIPF), and Dr. Roxanne Korthals (Inspectorate of Education Netherlands).

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