Prof. Dr. Sabine Weinert

Head of Research Group & former Head of Department

Markusplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg
Room M3N/03.39

phone: 0951/863-1900
E-Mail: sabine.weinert(at)uni-bamberg.de

Selected publications (last 3 years; articles with scientific quality assurance, book publications; sorted by year)

Weinert, S., & Ebert, S. (2024). Developmental dynamics and social disparities in early education-related child development: Results from the BiKS-3-18 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: Findings from the BiKS cohort panel studies (pp. 91-129). Edition ZfE 16. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43414-4_4

Weinert, S., Rossbach, H.-G., von Maurice, J., Blossfeld, H.-P., & Artelt, C. (Eds.). (2024). Educational processes, decisions, and the development of competencies from early preschool age to adolescence: Findings from the BiKS cohort panel studies. Edition ZfE 16. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-43414-4

Huang, W., Weinert, S., & Volodina, A. (2024). Relations between early majority language and socioemotional development in children with different language backgrounds. Child Development, 95, 895-912. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14040

Seitz, M., Attig, M., Möwisch, D., Vogelbacher, M., & Weinert, S. (2024). Socioeconomic differences in looking behavior in habituation tasks in the first two years of life. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2024.2411956

Volodina, A., Lehrl, S., & Weinert, S. (2024) The impact of early home learning environment and preschool quality on school-relevant language proficiency in primary school. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 38(3), 502-525.https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2023.2301102

Weinert, S., Attig, M., Linberg, A., Vogel, F., & Rossbach, H.-G. (2023). Quality of early learning environments: measures, validation, and effects on child development. In S. Weinert, G. J. Blossfeld, & H.-G. Blossfeld (Eds.), Education, competence development and career trajectories. Analysing data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) (pp. 17-58). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-27007-9_2

Weinert, S., Blossfeld, G. J., & Blossfeld, H.-G. (Eds.). (2023). Education, competence development and career trajectories. Analysing data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27007-9

Attig, M., Vogelbacher, M., & Weinert, S. (2023). Education from the crib on: The potential of the Newborn Cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(13), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.81

Panico, L., Boinet, C., Akabayashi, H., de la Rie, S., Kwon, S. J., Kameyama, Y., Keizer, R., Nozaki, K., Perinetti Casoni, V., Volodina, A., Waldfogel, J., Weinert, S., & Washbrook, E. (2023). International differences in gradients in early childhood overweight and obesity: The role of maternal employment and formal childcare attendance. European Journal of Public Health, 33(3), 468-475. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad058

Volodina, A., Weinert, S., Washbrook, E., Waldfogel, J., Keizer, R., Perinetti Casoni, V., de la Rie, S., & Kwon, S. J. (2023). Parental education-related gaps in externalising behaviour at age 3-4 years: Evidence from a harmonised framework from the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands. Child & Youth Care Forum, 53, 459-483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09759-4

Weinert, S. (2022). Language and cognition. In J. Law, S. Reilly & C. McKean (Eds.), Language Development: Individual differences in a social context (pp. 122-143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edossa, A. K., Lockl, K., & Weinert, S. (2022). Developmental relationship between metacognitive monitoring and reading comprehension. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology. doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v13n1p1

Huang, W., Weinert, S., von Maurice, J., & Attig, M. (2022). Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers' language and social competence. Journal of Family Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000950.

Huang, W., Weinert, S., Wareham, H., Law, J., Attig, M., von Maurice, J., & Roßbach, H.-G. (2022). The emergence of 5-year-olds’ behavioral difficulties: Analyzing risk and protective pathways in the UK and Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 769057. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769057

Karwath, C., Attig, M., von Maurice, J., & Weinert, S. (2022). Does poverty affect early language in 2-year-old children in Germany? Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02500-0

Rose, E., Ebert, S., & Weinert, S. (2022). Associations of preschoolers’ language skills with aggressive behaviour, positive peer relations, and the hostile intent attribution from preschool to early adolescence. European Journal of Developmental Psychology,19(6), 828-846, DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2021.1978971

Seitz, M., & Weinert, S. (2022). Numeracy skills in young children as predictors of mathematical competence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40, 224-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12408

Volodina, A., Weinert, S., Washbrook, E., Waldfogel, J., Jiyoon Kwon, S., Wang, Y., & Perinetti Casoni, V. (2022). Explaining gaps by parental education in children’s early language and social outcomes at age 3-4 years: Evidence from harmonised data from three countries. Current Psychology, online first. doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03754-z

Dorn, K., Cauvet, E., & Weinert, S. (2021). A cross-linguistic study of multisensory perceptual narrowing in German and Swedish infants during the first year of life. Infant and Child Development, online first. DOI: 10.1002/icd.2217

Heppt, B., Volodina, A., Eglinsky, J., Stanat, P., & Weinert S. (2021). Faktorielle und kriteriale Validität von BiSpra 2-4: Validierung eines Testinstruments zur Erfassung bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen bei Grundschulkindern. Diagnostica, 67, 24-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000259

Volodina, A., Heppt, B., & Weinert, S. (2021). Effects of socioeconomic status and language use on academic language proficiency in children with a migration background: An evaluation using quantile regressions. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 65, 101973.

Volodina, A., Heppt, B., & Weinert, S. (2021). Relations between the comprehension of connectives and school performance in primary school. Learning and Instruction, 74, 101430. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2020.101430

Weinert, S. (2020). Heterogenität im Kindesalter. In J. Roos & S. Roux (Eds.), Das große Handbuch Frühe Bildung in der Kita. Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse für die Praxis (pp. 437-448). Köln/Kronach: Carl Link.

Weinert, S. (2020). Sprachentwicklung im Kontext anderer Entwicklungsbereiche. In S. Sachse, A.-K. Bockmann & A. Buschmann (Eds.), Sprachentwicklung: Entwicklung - Diagnostik - Förderung im Kleinkind- und Vorschulalter (pp. 131-162). Berlin: Springer.

Attig, M., & Weinert, S. (2020). What impacts early language skills? Effects of social disparities and different process characteristics of the home learning environment in the first two years. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 557751. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.557751.

Ebert, S., Lehrl, S., & Weinert, S. (2020). Differential effects of the home language and literacy environment on child language and theory of mind and their relation to socioeconomic background. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 555654. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555654

Heppt, B., Köhne-Fütterer, J., Eglinsky, J., Volodina, A., Stanat, P., & Weinert, S. (2020). BiSpra 2-4. Test zur Erfassung bildungssprachlicher Kompetenzen bei Grundschulkindern der Jahrgangsstufen 2 bis 4. Münster: Waxmann.

Lehrl, S., Ebert, S., Blaurock, S., Rossbach, H.-G., & Weinert, S. (2020). Long-term and domain-specific relations between the early years home learning environment and students’ academic outcomes in secondary school. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 31, 102-124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2019.1618346 .

Linberg, A., Attig, M., & Weinert, S. (2020). Social disparities in the vocabulary of 2-year-old children and the mediating effect of language-stimulating interaction behavior. Journal for Educational Research Online, 12, 12-35.

Linberg, A., Burghardt, L., Freund, J.-D., & Weinert, S. (2020). Differential effect of duration of early childcare under the age of three on socio-emotional outcomes. Early Child Development and Care, 190:16, 2505-2519. [online first 2019] doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2019.1588891

Linberg, A., Lehrl, S., & Weinert, S. (2020). The early years home learning environment - Associations with parent-child-course attendance and children’s vocabulary at age 3. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1425. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01425

Nusser, L. Weinert, S., Artelt, C., & Carstensen, C. H. (2020). Machbarkeitsstudien an Förderschulen mit dem Schwerpunkt Lernen im Rahmen des Nationalen Bildungspanels (2010-2013) – Ergebnisse und Resümee. In C. Gresch, P. Kuhl, M. Grosche, C. Sälzer & P. Stanat (Eds.), Schüler*innen mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf in Schulleistungserhebungen (pp. 147-175). Wiesbaden: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27608-9

Volodina, A., & Weinert, S. (2020). Comprehension of connectives: Development across primary school age and influencing factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:814. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00814

Volodina, A., Weinert, S., & Mursin, K. (2020). Development of academic vocabulary across primary school age: Differential growth and influential factors for German monolinguals and language minority learners. Developmental Psychology, 56(5), 922-936.https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000910

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Research Information System (FIS) of the Universität Bamberg

Professor Weinert’s main field of research is developmental and educational psychology with a special focus on the acquisition of language, cognitive development, and social-emotional development, their interrelations and influencing factors. Besides typical development she is also interested in developmental disorders. She is involved in various interdisciplinary and longitudinal studies and research initiatives (e.g., the National Educational Panel Study, NEPS).

ongoing and previous research projects

Studies of psychology and, in addition, mathematics, linguistics, and educational scienes at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br. and Bochum

1985 Diploma, Psychology (‘with excellence’, University of Bochum, Germany)

1990 Doctor´s degree, University of Bielefeld (with excellence; Doctoral thesis(13.8 MB) on a comparative analysis of implicit and explicit learning processes in adults and children a with and without developmental language disorder)

1998 Habilitation (post doctoral qualification) in psychology, University of Bielefeld (thesis: language and thought - a psychological analysis of interrelations from a developmental perspective)

1998 - 1999 Deputy Professorship of Psychology, University of Bielefeld

1999 - 2000 Professor (C2) for Developmental Psychology, University of Münster

2000 - 2001 Professor (C3) for Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Erfurt

2002 - 2023 Full Professor (C4 / Ordinaria) and Head of Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bamberg

2018/2019 Director (interim) of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg

As of October 2023, Emerita of Excellence, Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc), University of Bamberg, and Research group leader at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Education and Lerning

For al more detailed CV see here(179.5 KB).