Upcoming conferences
Join us for CORE symposia, sessions, and presentation at upcoming conferences (selected submissions):
- NCME Conference, 25. April 2025, Denver, CO
- EARLI 2025, 25.-29. August 2025, Graz, Austria
We're excited to share some great news with you today! Following our announcement that we will be participating in the upcoming #NCME conference, we're equally thrilled to be attending this year’s #EARLI conference in Graz, Austria, from August 25-29.
This year's conference theme, "Realising Potentials through Education: Shaping Minds and Brains for the Future," gives us the opportunity to show you our research on Critical Online Reasoning; a crucial skillset in the digital age. We are particularly looking forward to holding two CORE-symposia. The first “Digitally Assessing University Students Generic and Domain-Specific Critical (Online) Reasoning Skills” will focus on how students use information in higher education. The second “Assessing Students' Critical (Online) Thinking and Reasoning in Open and Closed Information Settings”, will look at specific measurement issues, including the quality of online sources students use. Both sessions will feature contributions from speakers from three countries, ensuring a broad international dialogue and providing insights from multiple perspectives.
As Europe’s largest educational association, the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) promotes inclusive dialogue among researchers, educators, and policymakers. We are very grateful to be part of this inspiring event.
We look forward to thought-provoking discussions, and hearing and sharing ideas about the future of education!
Anna Horrer successfully passed her doctoral defence on innovative ways to assess Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Skills.
We congratulate Mrs Horrer and wish her all the best and continued success!
The NCME conference is fast approaching, and our excitement is growing by the day! On April 25th from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, our CORE symposium will take place in Denver at NCME. It’s going to be packed with lots of insights as we ask the question how a valid assessment of the critical online reasoning skills of economics students can work, look into eye tracking analysis of high and low performers and the impact of vocational education on students’ media usage skills. As we are also interested in the use of ChatGPT, our researchers will provide insights into their work concerning students’ COR task solving in economics and compare time-to-draft with and without ChatGPT.
But what actually is the NCME? The National Council in Measurement in Education (NCME) is an organization that brings together scientists and practitioners involved in different aspects of educational measurement. As we are working on understanding more about critical online reasoning skills in education and how to measure them, it is a great honour for us to be part of the annual meeting this time.
4th Roundtable, Frankfurt, 14.-15. October 2024
Our fourth CORE roundtable took place on 25 and 26 February – this time at the DIPF Leibnitz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt. During lively discussions, we were able to compile our findings, share our progress, and ensure that we are on track to realizing our goals. In our working groups, we also initiated important steps to drive our projects forward. A huge thank you to the DIPF! We’ve had a great time!
The current working paper is now available for download.
Link to downdload: Working Paper 3
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We are pleased to announce the release of our latest related publication: Students’, Graduates’ and Young Professionals’ Critical Use of Online Information: Digital Performance Assessment and Training within and across Domains.
Edited by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Marie-Theres Nagel, Verena Klose, and Alexander Mehler, this volume addresses key research questions related to the use of online information in practical tasks as well as to the impact of digital training.
Find out more about the publication here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69510-0
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3rd Roundtable, Mainz, 14.-15. October 2024
Our third CORE Roundtable took place from October 14-15 at JGU in Mainz and brought together over 50 national and international experts to discuss our research on measuring Critical Online Reasoning in Higher Education and to plan the next stages in our collaboration. We all left feeling very inspired for the next steps in our research.
Coaching sessions and critical feedback for projects and working groups as along with several workshops on data analysis methods provided all CORE researchers with valuable guidance on further work and motivated our young researchers in the research group.
We look forward to all upcoming meetings and the joint publications in our exciting CORE!
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From June 21-27, Prof. Patricia Alexander was a guest at the Chair of Business Education.
Prof. Alexander, a distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Director of the Learning Research Lab and a long-term PLATO PI, is a world- leading expert in (digital) media literacy, multiple source use, and critical and relational reasoning, and developed the higly renowned Model of Domain Learning and the integrative Framework of Learning from Multiple (online) Texts, which the FOR stongly relies on in its research.
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Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia (Spring 2024). Global Education without Walls: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of University Learning in Online Environments across Disciplines. Dædalus 153(2), pp. 237–245.
2nd Roundtable, Munich, 4.-5. March 2024
The second CORE Roundtable Meeting took place in Munich, 4-5 March, 2024.
Two productive workshop days were dedicated to task designs, scoring refinement, logdata analysis, annotations, and data infrastructure for the upcoming analyses of the first measurement.
3rd Roundtable, Mainz, 14.-15. October 2024
The main assessments of the winter term 2023/24 have concluded. Analyses are now under way.
The PLATO program as well as the newly established DFG research unit CORE (FOR 5404) mourns the passing of our brilliant colleague and principal investigator Prof. Dr. Uwe Schmidt, who left us much too soon on December 18, 2023, at the age of 63. [...]