Köller, Olaf

Olaf Köller

Prof. Dr., Dipl.-Psych.
Ed. Research and Ed. Psychology

Contact

phone +49-(0)431-880-3120
address Olshausenstraße 62, D-24118 Kiel
room 126

Education

2001 Habilitation in Psychology, University of Potsdam
1997 Doctorate in Pyschology, Kiel University
1991 Diplom (Ger.) in Psychology, Kiel University
1984 - 1991 Studies in Psychology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Kiel University

Professional Activity

2009 - present Managing Scientific Director and Head of the Department of Educational Research and Educational Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) and Full Professor of Educational Research at Kiel University
2004 - 2009 Founding Director of the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement and Full Professor of Educational Research at Humboldt University, Berlin
2002 - 2004 Full Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2001 - 2002 Head of Junior Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
1996 - 2001 Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
1991 - 1996 Doctoral Student at the Leibniz Institute for Science Education (IPN)

Research Interests

The role of school environments for individual development
Large-scale Assessments
Educational Assessment and Educational Measurements
Implementation of innovations in schools

Current Projects

NEPS - Nationales Bildungspanel
BiSS-EvalLesen Evaluation of the Approaches and Methods used in the Multidisciplinary Promotion of Reading in Primary Education
MEWS Measuring English Writing at Secondary Level. A Binational Comparative Study
BRISE Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development
BERLIN-Studie
Reform of the secondary school system in Germany: A quasi-experimental field study on the effects of social and ethnic background on the development of student competencies and motivation and on the transition from lower secondary to vocational and upper secondary education in Berlin.

Selected Publications

Meyer, J. Schmidt, F. T. C, Fleckenstein, J. & Köller, O. (2023). A closer look at the domain-specific associations of openness with language achievement: Evidence on the role of intrinsic value from two large scale longitudinal studies. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 113-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12543
Meyer, J., Thoma, G-B., Kampschulte, L., Köller, O. (2023). Openness to Experience and Museum Visits: Intellectual Curiosity, Aesthetic Sensitivity, and Creative Imagination Predict the Frequency ofVisits to Different Types of Museums, Journal of Research in Personality, 103, 104352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104352
Benckwitz, L., Guill, K., Roloff, J., Ömerogullari, M. & Köller, O. (2022). Investigating the relationship between private tutoring, tutors’ use of an individual frame of reference, reasons for private tutoring, and students’ motivational-affective outcomes. Learning and Individual Differences, 95, 102137, 1-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.indif.2022.102137
Lindner, M. A., Eitel, A., Barenthien, J. & Köller, O. (2021). An integrative study on learning and testing with multimedia: Effects on students’ performance and metacognition. Learning and Instruction, 71 (2021), 101100, 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.01.002
Saß, S., Schütte, K., Kampa, N. & Köller, O. (2021). Continuous time models support the reciprocal relations between academic achievement and fluid intelligence over the course of a school year. Intelligence, 87, 101560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101560.

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