Field of Work
Christine Sälzers research focuses on large-scale assessments, educational monitoring, school absenteeism, students with special educational needs and teacher education.
Future teachers are in the center of a fast changing world: They have to prepare their students for a future that is yet unknown and holds a multitude of challenges. Teacher education therefore needs to enable future teachers to prepare their students for such a future. My research takes this into account and focuses on topics which are relevant for school and teaching. Large-scale assessments as well as individual topics such as school absenteeism or special educational needs are aspects that need to be on the minds of (future) teachers.
Personal Information
Christine Sälzer (*1980) is professor of education at the University of Stuttgart. She studied education, psychology and sociology in Braunschweig, Berne and Fribourg (Switzerland), where she received her PhD in 2010. In 2008/2009, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford School of Education. Christine completed her habilitation in 2016 at TU Munich; the cumulative work focused on large-scale assessments as an empirical reference for educational policy making. In 2018/2019, she served as a substitute professor of national and international large-scale assessments at Heidelberg University.
From 2010 to 2017 Christine Sälzer was national project leader of the PISA study in Germany.