Maximilian Pfost

// CURRENT POSITIONS

• Associate Professor of Educational Research
• Faculty Member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// RESEARCH

Prof. Pfost’s research focuses on children’s emergent literacy skills, the development of reading comprehension, reading motivation and reading behavior. Furthermore,  he is interested in analyzing self-regulated learning in higher education settings.

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

Pfost, M., & Hübner, V. (2026). Perceived social support, attachment representations, and academic risk-taking in higher education. Social Psychology of Education, 29, Article 61. doi: 10.1007/s11218-026-10229-7

Pfost, M., Fischer, L. & Hübner, V. (2025). Akademische Kontrollüberzeugungen, Studienmotivation und Lernerfolg im Studium [Academic locus of control, motivation to study and academic success  in higher education]. Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung, 9, 28-45. doi: 10.3224/zehf.v9i1.03

Heyne, N., Pfost, M. & Kuntner, P. (2025). LitSpatz: An app for literary walks to promote and record primary students' text comprehension, perspective taking and related skills. European Journal of Geography, 16, 64-74. doi: 10.48088/ejg.si.spat.hum.n.hey.64.74

Pfost, M., Becker, S. & Artelt, C. (2024). Competence, motivation and interest development between primary school and tertiary education—a summary of findings from the BiKS-8-18 study. In S. Weinert, H.-G. Rossbach, J. von Maurice, H.-P. Blossfeld & C. Artelt (Eds.), Educational processes, decisions, and the development of competencies from early preschool age to adolescence. Edition ZfE, vol 16 (pp. 245-262). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-43414-4_9

Hübner, V. & Pfost, M. (2024). Academic risk taking and teaching quality in higher education. Learning and Instruction, 90, 101877. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101877

Pfost, M. & Heyne, N. (2023). Fostering children’s reading comprehension: the importance of fiction reading. Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung, 13, 127-137. doi: 10.1007/s35834-022-00376-0

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