- Since 2016
- honorary member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft
- 2013 – 2016
- Rudollf-Carnap-Professorship at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- 2008 – 2013
- on leave, formerly Director of the Department of Educational Governance at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main
- 2005 – 2008
- head of the center for educational research and teacher education at Wuppertal University
- 2004 – 2008
- Professor for empirical educational research at Bergische Universität Wuppertal
- 1992 – 2004
- professorship for empirical educational research at the Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt/Mühlhausen (which became Erfurt University in 2001)
- 1990
- doctoral degree in educational science
- 1974 – 1992
- academic staff member in the department for economy, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main
- 1974
- diploma in educational science
- 1968 – 1973
- studied educational science/pedagogy at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, minor subjects psychology, sociology, music and Protestant theology
- 1967 – 1968
- teacher at a general primary and lower secondary school in Darmstadt
- 1963 – 1967
- studied at teacher training college, Pädagogisches Fachinstitut in Jugenheim/Bergstr. Acquired a teaching diploma for public sector schools for the subjects of music, arts. (higher education qualification for respective subjects was acquired by completing exam with distinction)
- disparities in the German school system – statistical analyses (focus on Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate)
- effects of demographic changes on education
- municipal educational monitoring
- school organisation and development
- educational planning
- geographical aspects of the education system
- teacher research
- situation of educational science and educational research
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