Dr. Steffi Pohl

Professional career

• Since 2009 Research fellow in the National Educational Panel Study, University of Bamberg 
• 2005-2009 Research assistant at the department of Research Methods and Evaluation Research (Prof. Dr. Rolf Steyer), University of Jena
• 2008 (September-Oktober) Working with Thomas D. Cook as a visiting Scientist at the Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
• 2007 Research assistant in the project kompetenztest.de ("competency test") (Dr. Christof Nachtigall), University of Jena
• 2004-2005 Research assistant in the e-learning project SPSSinteraktiv ("SPSSinteractive") (Prof. Dr. Renate Soellner), Free University of Berlin
• Research assistant at the department of Methods in Psychology (Prof. Dr. Albrecht Iseler), Free University of Berlin

Education

• 2011            Gustav A. Lienert Award for the doctoral thesis, awarded from the research association Methods and Evaluation Research of the German Psychological Society
• 2005-2010   Doctoral thesis on "Modeling method effects" at the University of Jena (thesis advisor: Rolf Steyer)
• 2002-2003   Master of Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK
• 1998-2004   Study of Psychology at the Free University of Berlin

Research interests

•    Item response theory
•    Modeling of longitudinal data
•    Multitrait-multimethod models
•    Structural equation modeling
•    Causality
•    Educational research

Research Projects

• 2012-2015 DFG-project on "Modeling missing data in competence tests" granted in the DFG-priority programm "Education as a Lifelong Process" (Coapplicant: Claus Carstensen)

Memberships

European Association of Methodology (EAM)

German Psychological Society (DGPs)    

National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

Institute for longitudinal educational research (INBIL)