Prof. Dr. Michael Becker

Projects

• BIJU – Learning Processes, Educational Careers, and Psychosocial Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Study
• Berlin Longitudinal Reading Study (LESEN 3 – 6)
• Development of an achievement test for the assessment of student competencies in Economics - Labour - Technics - Vocational Orientation (WATB)
• Educational choices and educational pathways within the context of structural changes in Berlin’s secondary school system (BERLIN study)
• From Abitur to doctoral degree and beyond
• Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts Across the Lifespan
• International Project for the Study of Educational Accountability Systems (IPEA)
• KEGS – Competence Development in Elementary Schools – Enhancement Study
• MILES-HuGS – Primary and Secondary Social Background Effects at Different Points of Transition in the Education System
• NimoErt – Non-monetary Outcomes of Education
• Tradition and Innovation: Developmental processes at non-academic track secondary schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxony

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

2009

Dr. phil. (Freie Universität, Berlin)

2004

Diploma in Psychology (Freie Universität, Berlin)

2004

M.A. phil. in Modern History, Catholic Theology and Psychology (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Professional activities

Since 2020

Professorship for Empirical Educational Research with a focus on Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts , TU Dortmund

Since 2015

Head of the research group " Individual developmental trajectories and institutional contexts across the lifespan "

Since 2013

Academic staff member at DIPF

2013

Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Prof. Kai S. Cortina) and the Institute for Social Research/Research Center for Group Dynamics, Ann Arbor, MI (Prof. Jacquelynne Eccles)

2010 – 2013

Academic staff member at the University of Potsdam

2008 – 2010

Academic staff member at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2005 – 2008

Scholarship holder (doctorate) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development/ International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Berlin

Current work and research priorities

• Cognitive and psycho-social development in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood
• Development and change of education systems
• Quantitative methods in social research, particularly causal analytical approaches