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Dr. Christine Schmid is a researcher and teaching-focused academic at the Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, within the Primary Education working group. She has held research and teaching positions at several prestigious institutions, including Leuphana University Lüneburg, DIPF | Leibniz Institute, and the University of Salzburg. She completed her doctorate at the University of Potsdam and her habilitation at Georg-August-University Göttingen.
- Doctorate: University of Potsdam, 2003
- Habilitation: Georg-August-University Göttingen, 2008
- Diploma in Sociology: 1996, with minors in statistics, psychology, and politics
Her research centers on school quality, civic education, grading practices, and social inequalities in education. She investigates how siblings, parental resources, gender, and immigration background affect academic achievement. Her work also explores political socialization, moral development, and the socioemotional influence of peers and parents during adolescence.
Her recent publications analyze teacher grading biases, school improvement policies in Austria, sibling effects on math and reading achievement using large-scale assessments (PISA, TIMSS), and longitudinal models of political engagement. Her methodological expertise includes multi-level modeling, panel data analysis, and reanalysis of major educational studies.
- Member, Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF)
- Member, Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (ÖFEB)
- Member, German Society for Research in Education (DGfE)
- Member, Working Group for Empirical Pedagogical Research (AEPF)
Dr. Schmid supervises bachelor's and master's theses on topics such as educational inequality, all-day schooling, democracy education, and teacher professionalism. She provides methodological guidance, particularly for quantitative studies. She is involved in major research projects like EduCare and Schule im Wandel, focusing on the quality and impact of extended education programs.
She is affiliated with the EduCare research program, now based at FU Berlin, which investigates the quality and effectiveness of all-day schooling and childcare, particularly in Switzerland and Germany. She contributes to the development of assessment instruments and the analysis of large-scale educational data.
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