Inter-school performance assessments

The employees of the department are involved in the implementation and evaluation of learning assessments in several German federal states and in German-speaking countries. The implementation is supplemented by research into the effectiveness of these learning assessments and their further development.

Project VERA

With this website, the VERA project group provides several federal states with a portal for carrying out the comparative tests in elementary school and in the eighth grade. The staff of the project group carry out the evaluations of the annual comparative tests and prepare various feedback reports, which are made available to the participating schools in the protected areas.

The individual menu items on these pages can be used to call up general information on the comparative tests and display the federal states participating in the project in Landau. In addition, the teachers of the participating federal states can access the separate protected areas for


VERA3 (elementary school)

and


VERA8 (8th grade)
to download materials for administering the standardized tests, enter students’ test results, and finally view or download feedback on the tests.

In 2012 and 2015, we offered the evaluation of proficiency tests in Italian as a second language for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano / South Tyrol.

In 2017, in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, a pilot study was conducted on the computer-based administration of standardized tests in eighth grade.

The VERA project was originally developed as a standardized assessment for elementary schools in 2003 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Helmke and (Prof.) Dr. Ingmar Hosenfeld.

 

EISVQS Project

The use of feedback from standardized tests and school inspections is being examined in an evaluation study commissioned by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.

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