In the two-day workshop, the participants received an application-oriented introduction to the basic functions of the IBM SPSS Statistics software, with a focus on the pragmatic and goal-oriented use of the programme.

The workshop was led by Dr Matthias Krepf and Dr Sarah Strauß (University of Cologne, Department of ‘Empirical School Research - Focus on Quantitative Methods’) and took place in cooperation between the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences, the Graduate School for Teacher Education and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Empirical Teacher and Instructional Research (IZeF).

In the two workshops offered by the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences on the topic of ‘Multi-level models in Mplus’, a general introduction to the analysis of multi-level models was first given and, building on this content, the analysis of multi-level structural equation models and the application of Mplus to analyse context and composition effects were discussed.

In the two-day workshop, the participants received an application-oriented introduction to the basic functions of the IBM SPSS Statistics software, with a focus on the pragmatic and goal-oriented use of the programme.

The workshop was led by Dr Matthias Krepf and Dr Sarah Strauß (University of Cologne, Department of ‘Empirical School Research - Focus on Quantitative Methods’) and took place in cooperation between the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences, the Graduate School for Teacher Education and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Empirical Teacher and Instructional Research (IZeF).

Dr.in Anna Bachsleitner, Ronja Lämmchen, DIPF

In this multi-day methods workshop, participants received a crash course in the statistics programme R. The workshop was led by Dr Till Kaiser (Faculty of Psychology, Psychological Methodology, Ruhr University Bochum).

The workshop was organised in cooperation between the Interdisciplinary Centre for Empirical Research on Teachers and Teaching (IZeF) and the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Nils Buchholtz led the workshop, organised by the IZeF and the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences, in which the participants received an introduction to mixed methods and their practical application. In addition, the Point of Integration and Joint Displays methods and their application in research were presented. Finally, the participants had the opportunity to ask and discuss questions about their own research projects.

In this workshop, participants received an introduction to multilevel modelling and its application in the statistical software Mplus and R. In addition, participants were able to discuss their own research questions and receive feedback on their work with Mplus and R. The workshop was led by Dr Malte Jansen and organised in cooperation between the IZeF and the Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences.

The two-day workshop on ‘Structural equation models: confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis and longitudinal models’, led by Prof Dr Christian Rietz (Heidelberg University of Education), was aimed at doctoral students in the ‘advanced initial stage’ of their doctorate. On the one hand, the participants were given pointers for deciding whether they wanted to use the relevant methods for their own research and, on the other hand, advice or assistance for working on their own research data. The workshop was organised in cooperation with the IZeF and the Humpf Graduate School.

The workshop, led by Dr Rainer Leonhart (University of Freiburg), was aimed at advanced beginners and taught the theoretical basics of structural equation models as well as practical knowledge, which was acquired using the AMOS and MPlus programmes.

IRT workshop (introduction)
This introductory workshop covered the basics of IRT scaling, including the Rasch model. One focus was on the direct application of what was learnt to each participant's own data set.

Multilevel analyses
The English-language workshop dealt with the problem that data in empirical educational research often occur in the form of hierarchically clustered groups, such as pupils in different school classes at different schools. Various methods of analysis such as multi-level models for repeated measures and multivariate models were presented by Prof. Dr Fred Hasselmann from the University of Nijmegen.

IRT scaling I and II
Similar to the workshop in February 2015, this workshop, also led by Dr Andreas Seifert, focused on the basics, such as the partial credit model, the interpretation of the output graphs, the interaction of the properties in the Rasch model and the Rasch model in longitudinal analyses. Building on this, a second workshop was held in particular to analyse and discuss the participants' own data.

Item Response Theory (IRT): Introduction and scaling techniques
The aim of this method workshop was to provide a general introduction to IRT scaling and the Rasch model. In addition, joint calculations with example files were carried out. The speaker was Dr Andreas Seifert from the University of Paderborn.