Educational Success: Support, Measurement and Evaluation
The CIDER-LERN Conference 2025 is organized by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in cooperation with the CIDER Coordination. The conference, which is open to educational researchers from outside the CIDER network, will take place from November 10-11th at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg.
The conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss findings as well as methodological and conceptual issues associated with educational research.
The conference will be followed by a workshop for the CIDER Fellows on November 12th.
Registration is currently open until September 15, 2025.
Please use the form at the bottom of the page.
Submission deadline for contributions: June 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2025
Start of conference registration: July 15, 2025
End of conference registration: September 15, 2025
Monday, November 10
Start of Conference:
Check-in: 10:30 a.m. | Welcome: 11:15 a.m.
Keynote I:
11:30 a.m. Prof. Orla Doyle, Ph.D. (University College Dublin)
"The Effectiveness of Early Life Investments: Evidence from the Preparing for Life Trial"
Data Sessions with representatives from NEPS and FReDA:
4:00 p.m.
Social Event:
6:00 p.m. | Bamberg city tour with local beer insights
Tuesday, November 11
Poster Session:
11:00 a.m.
Keynote II:
2:30 a.m. Prof. Dr. Samuel Greiff (Technical University of Munich)
Panel Discussion Third Party Funding:
4:30 p.m.
End of Conference:
6:30 p.m.
Conference Dinner:
7:00 p.m. | Mahrs Bräu Bamberg
The full program will be published in September 2025.
Day 1 - Monday, November 10:
Prof. Orla Doyle, Ph.D. (University College Dublin)
Title: The Effectiveness of Early Life Investments: Evidence from the Preparing for Life Trial
Abstract: There is growing evidence that circumstances early in life are critical for developing the skills required to lead a successful life. For the last 16 years, I have conducted a randomised control trial of Preparing for Life, a pregnancy to age five home visiting and parenting program in Ireland. The goal was to distil knowledge from the field regarding the sufficient intensity, length, and focus of early intervention curricula that is required to optimize children’s skills, with the aim of creating a landmark study which would make substantive and methodological contributions to the human development literature. To date, over 25 papers on the trial have been published. The most recent have shown that the program significantly improved children’s cognitive development and executive functioning at age five (Doyle 2020) and age nine (Doyle 2022), with effects somewhat larger than those reported in the seminal studies of home visiting programs (e.g., Heckman et al. 2017) and the early outcomes that have emerged from more contemporary home visiting trials (e.g., Attanasio et al. 2014). There is little evidence of treatment heterogeneity by gender, birth order, or distribution of ability, and the effects are mainly driven by improvements in early parental beliefs. This presentation will present an overview of the study to date, as well as the replication of the trial in Chicago and the age 14 follow-up.
Day 2 - Tuesday, November 11:
Prof. Dr. Samuel Greiff (Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB), Technical University of Munich)
Title: tba
Call for Papers
The Call for Papers was open until June 15, 2025.
Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (LIfBi)
Dr. Christina Haas (LIfBi)
Prof. Dr. Florian Schmiedek (Head of CIDER)
Dr. Sophia Schmitz (BiB)
Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (BiB)
