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Institute of Education

Katharina Maag Merki

Katharina Maag Merki, Prof. Dr.

  • Professorin für Theorie und Empirie schulischer Bildungsprozesse / Professor of Educational Science with focus on Theory and Empirical Research on Educational Processes in Schools
Phone
+41 44 634 27 80
Address
Freiestrasse 36, 8032 Zürich
Room number
FRE-G-23

Main research areas and interests

School quality and school development research, equal opportunities and educational disadvantages, educational governance, self-regulated learning

Professional Activity

2009-            Full Professor of Education at the University of Zurich with a focus on the Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Educational Processes in Schools; first female professor at what was previously the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Zurich

Functions

2023-   Director of theInstitute of Education, University of Zurich
2020-   Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Brugg
2019-   Member of the Research Advisory Board of the Zurich University of Teacher Education, Zurich
2018-   Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DIPF – Leibnitz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

2017-2023

  

Chairwoman of the University Council of the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

2013-2021

  

Vice Dean for Academic Career at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich

2013-2021

  

Member of the National Research Council for the field‚ Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften‘ (Educational Sciences) of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2009-2012

  

Member of the DFG Review Board "Fachkollegium 109" Educational Research for „Allgemeine und fachbezogene Lehr-, Lern- und Qualifikationsforschung“ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2009-2012

  

President Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF)
2006-2009: Vice President
2003-2012: Board Member

Full details of the professional activity (German) (PDF, 195 KB)

Mitgliedschaften, Memberships

  • American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • Arbeitsgruppe School Governance (ASG)
  • Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF) der DGfE
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE)
  • European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
  • Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF)
  • International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement (ICSEI)
  • International Project for the Study of Educational Accountability Systems
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung (SGBF)
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Lehrer/innenbildung (SGL)
  • The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)

Publikationen, Publications

Publikationsliste, Publications (PDF, 279 KB)

 

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Auszeichnung, Award

UZH Mentoring Award 2021

Katharina Maag Merki is one of three winners of the UZH Graduate Campus Mentoring Award 2021. This award recognises supervisors of doctoral students at the UZH for outstanding supervision and promotion of young researchers.

Highly Commended Paper Award from the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Paper Awards for Excellence

Maag Merki, K. (2014). Conducting intervention studies on school improvement: An analysis of possibilities and constraints based on an intervention study of teacher cooperation. Journal of Educational Administration, 52(5), 590-616. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-10-2013-0120