FAIRsharing record for: Forschungsdatenzentrum am Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen / Research Data Centre at Institute for Educational Quality Improvement

This FAIRsharing record describes: For more than 20 years, Germany has been building up an extensive collection of data within the framework of international and national school performance studies (e.g. PISA, IGLU, IQB Trends in Student Achievement), which enables systematic analyses of framework conditions, processes and outcomes in the education system.

This potential can only be fully exploited if researchers from different disciplines have access to the data.

To make this possible, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) established the Research Data Centre (FDZ at the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB) in 2007. Since 2011, the FDZ at the IQB has been part of the Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB).

The FDZ at IQB is intensively involved in the further development of the research data infrastructure in the education sector. It fulfils two core tasks:

It makes the data sets of national and international school performance studies in Germany available to the scientific community for re- and secondary analyses.
It is active in the promotion of young researchers by offering advice for young researchers and events for the methodological training of young researchers (e.g. twice-yearly academies on methods of empirical educational research).