Elisabeth Graf

📢 The IFS will join EARLI 2025 @uni-graz.at! 🌍 From Aug 25–29, we’ll present research on digital vocabulary tools, multilingual learning, diverse student needs, classroom motivation & instructionally sensitive items. Excited for insights & global exchange! 💡 #EARLI2025

🇬🇧 The UK plans to introduce voting at 16.
🇦🇹 Austria introduced it 18 years ago.

Reposting the thread summarising our recent research re-evaluating evidence on the Austrian case.

TL;DR: No big boost in engagement, but no harm either. Voting at 16 facilitates inclusion, and that matters in itself.

Great, i can definitly recommended! 😊

I had a wonderful time at #AERA 2025 in Denver! It provided incredible insights into current #emotions, #motivation, #intervention, and #civics education research. I am particularly thankful for many conversations and the opportunity to share research on motivational processes and development 😊

Stellenausschreibung am IFS: Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt Position als Akad. Rätin/ Rat a.Z. bzw. wissenschaftlich Beschäftigte*r zu besetzen! Mehr Informationen unter: ifs.ep.tu-dortmund.de/karriere/akt... #joboffer #ArbeitInDerWissenschaft #Forschung #Lehre

Warum ist es wichtig, Forschungsdaten, Materialien und Analysecodes verfügbar zu machen? Darüber und zu #OpenScience in #FAIR sprach ich gemeinsam mit Hanna Gaspard:

We are looking forward to the #keynotes of Prof. Laura Wray-Lake and Prof. Jan Germen Janmaat at interdisciplinary Keynote Forum on #CivicEducation in Essen. To join us on April 9th, register via the following link: eveeno.com/241050096

We are very honored to have Prof. Laura Wray-Lake and Prof. Jan Germen Janmaat visit our PostdocLab #CERL to share their research on civic development and education. If you are interested in joining the two keynote lectures, register here: eveeno.com/241050096

📅 April 9, 2025, 14.15 - 16.00
🧭 Essen

📢Wir gehen neue Kommunikationswege und freuen uns auf den Austausch auf Mastodon @ifs_tudortmund@eduresearch.social – Bluesky @ifs-tudortmund.bsky.social und Instagram ifs_tudortmund

3️⃣ Finally, we were interested in feedback loops. Do career aspirations themselves affect future motivational beliefs?

➡️We show effects from reading-related career aspirations to German self-concept and from math-related career aspirations to math motivation, but no robust cross-domain effects.

2️⃣ How do associations to domain-specific self-concept and intrinsic motivation change over time?

➡️ We find stronger associations between intrinsic motivation and reading-related career aspirations at 16 compared to age 13, supporting an intensification of domain-specific associations.

➡️ Additionally, we find increasing stability of math- and reading-related career aspirations over time.

Based on expectancy-value and dimensional comparison theory we look into three questions:

1️⃣ How do math- and reading related career aspiration develop?

➡️ We show slight increases and identify students' domain-specific self-concept, interest, and achievement as predictors of initial levels.

📄New Preprint: "Domain-Specific Career Aspirations, Motivation, and Achievement in Math and Reading Across Adolescence"

In this study, we use #NEPS data to investigate the development of math- and reading-related career aspirations.

#edusky #edpsych

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🚨 New open position at the IFS: we are looking for a research assistant (65%) in the NEPS team focusing on Civic Literacy.

Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

#civics #polpsy #NEPS #EduSky

ifs.ep.tu-dortmund.de/storages/ifs...

Nice! Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳

Civic Education Research Lab (CERL)

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The @college-uaruhr.bsky.social now featured an in-depth interview about our ideas and plans for the Civic Education Research Lab #CERL

www.college-uaruhr.de/features/inf...

#CivicEducation #EduSky #PsychSciSky #PolPsy

Great data from Austria now available ⬇️

👋 Bildungsforschung! Wir sind jetzt auch hier und posten über den größten Kongress für empirische Bildungsforschung in 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇺: #gebf25!
📅 27.–30.1.2025 in Mannheim
✨ 1200 Forschende, Keynotes, Diskussionen, Networking!
👉 www.gebf2025.de

Looking to do a PhD in Educational Psychology and very interested in emotions? Well do I have good news for you - our local Ed Psych is looking to hire a new PhD candidate, and you'd even get to work with world's most wonderful post-doc @lisastempfer.bsky.social 🎉

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

In general, it might already help to include files for data processing in #OpenMaterial, particularly when working with secondary data.
Writing / revising code in such a way that it is understandable to others can already reveal possible errors.
#OpenCode #OpenScience

I can only recommended anyone working with R (or any other statistics program) to utilize code review, e.g. among co-authors - four eyes are always better to discover blind spots or errors 👀👀

⬇️❗This is so crucial, we can all learn a lot from this exmple. I am glad I had @laurabronner.bsky.social reviewing my analysis code for this paper several times, and I think that's a huge asset of collaborative research.

Abstract of the article How Much Tailoring Is too Much? Voter Backlash on Highly Tailored Campaign Messages

🎯 Publication alert! 🎯 Excited to share that my first single-authored dissertation paper is now published at The International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP

🔓Check out the open access (thanks @univienna) paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1940... 1/2

A thread about being wrong:

5 years ago, we wrote a paper about how how newly enfranchised 16-year-olds vote in Austria. But we were wrong.

This year, @elisabethgraf.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social, Sylvia Kritzinger and I are setting the record straight: authors.elsevier.com/c/1juT5xRaZk...

Might be a similar idea: There is the peer community journal, including different thematic PCIs (e.g., Psychology): peercommunityjournal.org

Many thanks to @schnizzl.bsky.social @laurabronner.bsky.social and Sylvia Kitzinger for this great collaboration, it was a pleasure to work on the topic together!

➡️ I learned a lot during the work in this paper; not only about causal inference (which is still rarely used in (educational) psychology), but also about best practice for replication and code review to decrease the risk for errors during the analyses

🚨 Now punblished: We tried to replicate effects of Voting at 16 on future turnout and ideological extremity, and additionally investigated political knowledge and efficacy ⬇️