Sebastian Franz

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Office: Luitpoldstraße 19, Room: LU19/03.22, 96052 Bamberg

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E-Mail: sebastian.franz(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 951/863-3171
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Pillar 1: Education, Personal Development and Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Field: Educational Research

Research Interests: Research on Teacher Education; Sociology of Education; Educational Trajectories; Quantitative Research Methods; Teacher Professional Competencies; Digital Media in Education
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+visit Sebastian's website at the Institute for Educational Science

// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Reasons for Dropout in Teacher Training and Teacher Education

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2015 - 2017
Master's Degree (M.Sc.) in Empirical Educatioon Research at the University of Bamberg

2010-2013
Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) in Sociology at the University of Mainz

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// RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

2023

Costa, J., Franz, S. and Menge, C. (2023): “Stays abroad of pre-service teachers and their relation to teachers' beliefs about cultural diversity in classrooms”. Teaching and Teacher Education, 129, 104137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104137

Franz, S. and Paetsch, J. (2023): “Academic and social integration and their relation to dropping out of teacher education: a comparison to other study programs”. Frontiers in Education, 8, 1179264. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1179264.

Franz, S., Gäckle, S. and Menge, C. (2023): "Übergänge von Lehramtsabsolventinnen und -absolventen. Wer verbleibt im ersten Jahr nach Studienabschluss auf dem Weg zur Lehrkraft?“ [Transitions of teacher education graduates. Who remains on the path to becoming a teacher in the first year after graduation?]. In: J. Ordemann, S. Buchholz and F. Peter (eds.) Vielfalt von Bildungsverläufen: HERSS – Higher Education Research and Science Studies. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Ortenburger, A., Gäckle, S., Menge, C. and Franz, S. (2023). "Skalenhandbuch Lehramtsstudierenden-Panel: Dokumentation des Erhebungsprogramms der LAP-Zusatzstudie zur NEPS-Längsschnittuntersuchung der Studienanfängerinnen und Studienanfänger des Wintersemesters 2010/2011 (NEPS-Startkohorte 5)“. LIfBi Working Paper 111. Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe. https://doi.org/10.5157/LIfBi:WP111:1.0

Paetsch, J., Franz, S. and Wolter, I. (2023): “Early career teachers’ technology use for teaching: The role of teacher self-efficacy, ICT literacy and experience during COVID-19 school closure”. Teaching and Teacher Education, 132, 104318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104318.

Schaeper, H., Ortenburger, A., Franz, S., Gäckle, S., Menge, C. and Wolter, I. (2023). “The German Panel of Teacher Education Students: Surveying (Prospective) Teachers from Higher Education into Working Life.” Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11: 7, pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.76

2022

Franz, S., Fackler, S. and Paetsch, J. (2022). "Profiles of pre-service teachers’ personality traits and cognitive abilities: Relations with graduation and teacher self-efficacy”. European Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2022.2114896

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2023
20th Biennial EARLI Conference. Education as a Hope in Uncertain Times. Presentation: “Educational and occupational pathways of persons who withdraw from teacher education programs”. Thessaloniki, Greece. 26^th August, 2023

2018
"Studienverläufe in Lehramtsstudiengängen - Befunde zur Revision und Stabilität von Studienentscheidungen" (with Andreas Ortenburg and Hildegard Schaeper), 6. Tagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Basel, February 2018

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// EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

Current Position since 07/2023
Research Associate, University of Bamberg, Chair for Evaluation in the Context of Teacher Education (Projects: DiSo-SGW and DiäS), Bamberg

10/2022 - 06/2023
Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Department of Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments (Project: Educational inclusion and transitions after lower secondary tier in Germany; INSIDE II), Bamberg

08/2017 - 06/2023
Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Department of Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments (Project: Panel of Teacher Education Students; LAP), Bamberg

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