Partner institutions
In our overview you will find all partner institutions and Research Data Centers involved in the FDB network, with a brief description of their respective focal points. For further information, we recommend using the links provided under each Research Data Center.
RDC at BIBBDIERDC at DJIForschungsdatenbank Lernertexte (FD-LEX) at the Mercator Institute, University of CologneFDZ-DZHWFDZ-LIfBiRDC at the IQBRDC at ZPIDRDC for Education at DIPFRDC PIAAC, GESISData Services of the Social Sciences, GESISQualiBi, Goethe University FrankfurtQualiservice
Our partners contribute their expertise in various ways and jointly enhance services for educational researchers. You can find more information at Activities & Outputs.
RDC at BIBB
The Research Data Center at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (RDC at BIBB) prepares the microdata of the institute's internal research projects with data documentation and long-term archiving. It makes this data available to researchers for non-commercial use in their own evaluations. The RDC at BIBB offers services that include company and personal data providing information on the acquisition and utilization of vocational knowledge and skills. In-company vocational training is a particular focus.
Contact
Felix Lukowski
Further information
To the website of the RDC at BIBB
To the data offered by the RDC at BIBB
Presentation of the “BA/BIBB Applicant Survey” in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview on the BIBB Research Data Center
"Questions related to vocational training can be explored very effectively using our research data," says Dr. Holger Alda, head of the RDC at BIBB, in an interview with Christine Schumann. The archived research data on vocational training allows researchers to investigate a wide range of questions in this field and analyze various aspects of vocational education.
DIE
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) provides a range of infrastructural services related to adult education. These include continuing education and adult education center statistics, the research map for adult and continuing education, publishing platforms, and historical research in adult education and program studies.
Contact
Harald Kaluza
Further information
Interview with the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE)
In this interview, Christine Schumann speaks with Harald Kaluza and Hella Huntemann from the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) about research data and research data management at DIE. The conversation covers provider statistics collected by the institute, such as the Adult Education Center Statistics (VHS Statistics), as well as research data management for internal projects.
RDC at DJI
Since 1988, the German Youth Institute (DJI) has regularly conducted empirical studies on how children and young people grow up and on the living conditions of adults and families. The RDC at DJI prepares this research data and provides access to the data for further use.
Contact
Holger Quellenberg
Further information
To the website of the RDC at DJI (only available in German)
To the data offered by the RDC at DJI (only available in German)
Interview about the RDC at DJI
“The combination of different datasets holds enormous potential! Knowing about relevant data resources and learning how to work with them should be an integral part of a master’s program in empirical educational sciences,” says Dr. Susanne Kuger, head of the Department for Long-Term Observation and Methods at the German Youth Institute (DJI), and head of the RDC at DJI. In her interview with Christine Schumann, she emphasizes how crucial it is for research quality to work with various types of data. She stresses the need to effectively use and combine both quantitative and qualitative data.
Forschungsdatenbank Lernertexte (FD-LEX) at the Mercator Institute, University of Cologne
In the Forschungsdatenbank Lernertexte (FD-LEX), educational researchers can find over 5,000 texts from pupils in the 5th and 9th grades of comprehensive schools and grammar schools in Cologne and Hanover. The transcripts and handwritten originals as well as anonymized metadata of the students can be used by researchers for their own projects.
Contact
Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiß
sonja.eisenbeiss@mercator.uni-koeln.de
Further information
To the website and data offer of the Mercator Institute (only available in German)
Interview about the Forschungsdatenbank Lernertexte (FD-LEX)
“These data are of interest to anyone involved in research and teaching in language education,” says Sandra Tietjens in an interview with Christine Schumann. She introduces the Learner Text Research Database (FD-LEX). The database was initially built using data from the project “Classroom Support for Subcomponents of Writing Competence. In addition, there are plans to include texts from other institute projects as well as from other organizations, Tietjens explains.
FDZ-DZHW
The Research Data Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies (FDZ-DZHW) at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Hanover provides research data from both quantitative and qualitative studies for use in research and teaching. These data originate from the fields of student research, graduate studies, and science studies.
Contact
Dr. Andreas Daniel
Further information
To the website of the FDZ-DZHW
To the data offered by the FDZ-DZHW
Presentation of the National Academics Panel Study in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview with FDZ-DZHW
“Research Data Centers can support the reproducibility of research,” says Dr. Karsten Stephan, former head of the FDZ DZHW, in an interview with Christine Schumann (Bildungsserver Blog). By systematically collecting and providing data, research data centers facilitate access to existing research results, he explains. This enables researchers to build on previous findings and further develop scientific questions.
FDZ-LIfBi
The FDZ-LIfBi prepares and provides research data from the survey studies of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). This includes, in particular, the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). The constantly expanding data portfolio includes other longitudinal research data related to education, for example from the Refugees in the German Educational System (ReGES) study.
Contact
Dr. Daniel Fuß
Further information
To the website of the FDZ-LIfBi
Interview about the FDZ-LIfBi
“The NEPS study is a major investment that provides valuable data for many research questions,” says Dr. Daniel Fuß, Head of the Research Data Center at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (FDZ LIfBi). In an interview with Christine Schumann, he discusses the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) conducted by LIfBi. This data allows for comprehensive analyses of education in Germany.
RDC at the IQB
The Research Data Centre at the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (RDC at IQB) archives and documents research data as well as supplementary materials from quantitative educational research. Its main task is to provide access to research data from the German samples of national and international student assessment studies used for cross-state educational monitoring.
Contact
Lisa Pegelow
Further information
To the website of the RDC at the IQB (only available in German)
To the data offered by the RDC at the IQB (only available in German)
To the presentation of the “BiKS Studies” in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview about the RDC at the IQB
“The educational monitoring studies, which have representative samples and a wide range of variables - namely IQB Education Trends, PIRLS, TIMSS, and PISA - are, of course, our top performers. Especially the PISA data are very popular among our users,” said Dr. Malte Jansen, former head of the Research Data Center at IQB (RDC at IQB), in an interview with Christine Schumann. In the interview, he discusses, among other things, the tasks and datasets of the RDC as well as their use.
RDC at ZPID
The Research Data Centre at ZPID (RDC at ZPID) operates a platform specifically designed for psychological research to ensure the sustainable curation and provision of research data. The RDC supports psychologists in documenting and archiving research data both during the research process and retrospectively.
Contact
Dr. Katarina Blask
RDCservice.info@leibniz-psychology.org
Further information
To the website of the RDC at ZPID
To the data offered by the RDC at ZPID
To the presentation of the “LOGIK Study” in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview about the RDC at ZPID
“Our psychology-specific infrastructure is consistently aligned with the research cycle,” says Roland Ramthun, former head of the Archiving and Publishing Services at ZPID – Leibniz Institute for Psychology. In an interview with Christine Schumann, he explains how the institute has evolved from its beginnings in 1971 to the present day. Initially, ZPID made psychological literature publicly accessible through the Psyndex database. Around the turn of the millennium, it established a research data archive that documents and stores already collected data and psychological testing instruments.
RDC for Education at DIPF
The RDC for Education archives audiovisual and textual research data and research instruments, particularly in the field of school and teaching research. The RDC for Education prepares this data and makes it available for use in research and teaching. The offer includes teaching videos, interview transcripts, questionnaire scales, test instruments, and coding manuals. Other topics include learning in the digital world and early childhood education. The RDC for Education is located at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education.
Contact
Dr. Thomas Lösch
Further information
To the website of the RDC for Education
To the data offered by the RDC for Education
Presentation of the “TALIS Video Study Germany” in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview about the Research Data Centre for Education (RDC for Education)
In this interview, Christine Schumann talks to Maike Porzelt and Dr. Marius Gerecht from the RDC for Education at DIPF. They introduce the Research Data Center, discuss the archived research data and instruments, and explain how datasets are processed. They advocate for researchers to use and share existing datasets beyond their original collection purpose, as this increases the quality and relevance of research.
RDC PIAAC, GESIS
The PIAAC Research Data Center (RDC PIAAC) provides researchers with access to research data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). PIAAC is a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that examines adult competencies worldwide. 33 countries are involved in PIAAC. The RDC PIAAC is located at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. GESIS is responsible for the national project management in Germany.
Contact
PD Dr. Débora Maehler
Further information
To the data offered by RDC PIAAC
To the presentation of the “PIAAC data sets” in the Meet-the-Data event series
Interview about the PIAAC Research Data Center
“The research data from the international PIAAC study on adult competencies provide a wealth of material for educational, economic, sociological, and psychological education research,” says Débora Maehler, who leads the PIAAC Research Data Center (RDC PIAAC) at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. In this interview, Christine Schumann talks to her about the Research Data Center and the PIAAC data collections.
Data Services of the Social Sciences, GESIS
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences archives social science research data and makes it available. It also offers services related to research data management - from planning to publication. Researchers can use the “Education” topic collection in the GESIS search to find studies with a focus on education.
Contact
Karoline Harzenetter
forschungsdaten-bildung@gesis.de
Further information
Interview on research data at GESIS
"Today, many more researchers are aware of the importance of research data," says Reiner Mauer from GESIS in an interview with Christine Schumann. Researchers are increasingly recognizing the significance of research data management and transparency in research. This not only leads to an improvement in the quality of scientific work but also to research data being used beyond their original purpose in additional research projects.
QualiBi, Goethe University Frankfurt
QualiBi is a research data platform currently under development. In the future, qualitative educational research data, including in-situ data, interview transcripts and data from educational ethnography, will be available here.
Contact
Dr. Christoph Leser
Further information
To the website of QualiBi (only available in German)
Qualiservice
The Qualiservice research data center archives research data from qualitative social science studies. It supports researchers in research data management and ensures that existing data is archived for the long term and can be used beyond the original purpose for which it was collected.
The RDC Qualiservice is operated by several partners in a consortium and is located at the University of Bremen.
Contact
Kati Mozygemba
Further information
Interview about Qualiservice
Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein, head of Qualiservice, talks in an interview with Christine Schumann about the research data center and discusses the scientific potential of qualitative research data. She believes that these data, which have so far been underused, could be increasingly utilized through improved research data management and a culture of open science.
