PD Dr. Carmen Köhler

Academic Staff

Educational Measurement

Teacher and Teaching Quality

Rostocker Straße 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

+49 (0)69-24708-122

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Projects

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Since 01/2016
Research associate at the department of Educational Measurement at the DIPF (Advisor: Johannes Hartig)
06/2015 – 08/2015
Internship at the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ
2012 – 2015
PhD student; dissertation topic: "Isn’t Something Missing? Latent Variable Models Accounting for Item Nonresponse", Freie Universität Berlin (Advisors: Steffi Pohl & Claus H. Carstensen)
2012 – 2015
Research assistant in the research project “Modeling Missing Data in Competence Tests” of the Priority Programme “Education as a Lifelong Process” (founded by the German Research Foundation [DFG]; PO1655/1-1)
2011 – 2012
Tutor for statistics in SPSS im Fachbereich Psychologie der Universität Trier
2007 – 2012
Psychology Major, University of Trier

Current work and research priorities

  • Item Response Theory (IRT) models, especially item fit and missing values
  • Latent longitudinal and multilevel models in educational research
  • Models for capturing the effects of teaching
  • Model-based competence diagnostics
  • Digital and media literacy

Selected Teaching and Workshops 

Teachings

SS 2023
Seminar „Differential Psychology“ (Goethe University Frankfurt)
WS 2022/2023
Practical Course “Statistics for Psychologists: Fundamentals” (Goethe University Frankfurt)
SS 2022
Lecture „Introduction to Diagnostics“ (TU Darmstadt)
WS 2020/2021
Practical Course: „ Statistics for Psychologists: Fundamentals" (Goethe University Frankfurt)
SS 2020
Seminar „Research Methods and Evaluation II“ (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Workshops

03/2023
Workshop „IRT für Fortgeschrittene mit R“ at the Spring School 2023 of the Institut for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB), Berlin, Germany
03/2023
Workshop „Einführung in die Item-ResponseTheorie“ within the BMBF funding regulation "Funding-related diagnostics in inclusive education" at the Goethe University Frankfurt
09/2022
Workshop „Item-Response-Theorie zur Kompetenzmodellierung und Skalierung in den Bildungswissenschaften“ at the Graduate Academy of Teacher Evaluation Colleges (graph), Karlsruhe, Germany
05/2020
Workshop „Einführung in die Item Response Theorie“ per video chat at the Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS) at the TU Dortmund University, Germany
09/2019
Workshop „Einführung in die Item Response Theorie mit R“ during the 2019 Method Week of the Method Center Social Sciences of the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Selected Presentations

  • Köhler, C. (2022, June). Modellierung von Effekten im Mehrebenen-Setting: Unter welchen Bedingungen sollte der Prätest zusätzlich auf Level 2 modelliert werden? Invited guest lecture in the statistical-psychometric research seminar of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany.
  • Köhler, C. (2021, October). Challenges when Estimating Effects in Nonrandomized Educational Studies. Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Köhler, C. (2019, October). Detecting Item Misfit in Educational Testing. Invited guest lecture at the Centre for Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Köhler, C., Hartig, J., & Schmid, C. (2019, May). Deciding Between the Covariance Analytical Approach and the Change-Score Approach in Two Wave Panel Data. Invited guest lecture at the research colloquium of the IQB, Berlin, Germany.
  • Köhler, C., Hartig, J., & Naumann, A. (2019, January). Estimation of Random Group DIF using Two- and Three-Level GLMMs. Invited presentation in the Symposium “Scales comparability in large scale cross‐country assessments” at the 5th Lisbon Economics and Statistics in Education (LESE) meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Memberships

last modified May 22, 2024