Janina Schel

Janina Schel is a lecturer at the Chair of Psychology in School and Education at the University of Bamberg, with additional teaching assignments at the University of Applied Sciences for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Bamberg. She is also a doctoral candidate at the Bamberg Graduate School of Teacher Education (BaGraTEd) since 2023, focusing on self-regulated learning processes in teacher training.

• Master of Science in Psychology (University of Bamberg, 2013-2016, with parental leave)
• Bachelor of Science in Psychology (University of Bamberg, 2010-2013)
• Bachelor of Science in Patholinguistics (University of Potsdam, 2009-2010)

Her research centers on diagnosing and promoting self-regulated learning among teacher trainees. She has developed instruments for assessing self-regulated learning in educational contexts and investigates the role of psychological diagnostics, differential psychology, and social psychology in classroom dynamics. Her work employs mixed-methods approaches to analyze learning patterns and outcomes.

Recent publications highlight her focus on competency frameworks and interventions for teacher training. She has presented findings on latent profile analysis of learning patterns and instrument validation at conferences like the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF).

• Waxmann Poster Prize (2025)
• FRITZI! Prize for theses by student parents (2016)

Janina Schel supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses in psychology and teacher education. She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams like the Pioneering Teacher Education (WegE) and the Center for Teacher Education Bamberg (ZLB), contributing to projects on digitalization and heterogeneity in education.