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Curriculum vitae

Education

  • Habilitation , 1986, Psychology, University of Munich
  • Dr. phil. (Ph.D.), 1982, Psychology, University of Munich
  • Dipl.-Psych. (M.Sc.) , 1977, Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Psychology, Education, Philosophy; Technical University of Braunschweig, University of Tübingen
  • Study Award 1974-1977, Gifted Student Award, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
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Academic Positions

  • Chair (C4), Personality and Educational Psychology, University of Munich , 2001 - present
  • Full Professor (C4), Psychology, University of Regensburg , 1994 - 2001
  • Associate Professor (C3, Fiebiger Award), Developmental Psychology, University of Regensburg , 1991 - 1994
  • Associate Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Educational Psychology, University of Frankfurt a.M. ,1989 - 1991
  • Associate Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Differential Psychology, University of Heidelberg, 1988 - 1989
  • Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Munich , 1982 - 1988
  • Graduate Assistant, Psychology, Universities of Bochum and Munich, 1977 - 1982
  • Chair, Advisory Board of the University of Munich, 2010 - present
  • Member, Advisory Board of the University of Munich 2009 - present
  • Vice-President for Research, University of Munich , 2007 - 2009
  • Board Member, Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (Lehrerbildungszentrum), University of Munich 2005 - 2007
  • Member of the Presidential Committees on University Reform, Study Reform, and Salary Regulation, University of Munich, 2003 - 2006
  • Associate Director, Department of Psychology, University of Munich 2002 - 2007
  • Member of the Senate, University of Munich 2002 - 2007
  • Director, Institute of Educational Psychology, University of Munich 2001 - 2002
  • Dean, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Regensburg 2000 - 2001
  • Founding Director, Center for Higher Education Research and Development, University of Regensburg, 2000 - 2001
  • Associate Dean, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Regensburg 1994 - 1996 & 1998 - 2000
  • Director, Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg 1992 - 1994
  • Member, Board of Assistant Professors, University of Munich 1986 - 1988
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Professional Activities

  • Fellow, American Educational Research Association 2012 - present
  • Member, Advisory Board of NSF Grant "Personalized Learning: Strategies to Respond to Distress and Promote Success," PI Ivon Arroyo, University of Massuchetts at Amherst, MA 2011 - present
  • Member, Advisory Board of Swiss National Science Foundation Grant “Parental Support and Affective-motivational Development During the Transition to Secondary School”; Co-PIs Alex Buff, Kurt Reusser; University of Zürich, Switzerland 2011 - present
  • Consultant, NSF Grant "Beyond Boredom: Modeling and Promoting Engagement During Complex Learning"; PI Sidney d’Mello, Co-PI Arthur Graesser; Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, TN 2011 - present
  • Member, Advisory Board of NSF REESE grant on Learning with Meta Tutor; 2011 - present
  • PI Roger Azevedo, University of Memphis, TN 2010 - present
  • Chair, Bühler Award committee, German Psychological Society (DGPs ) 2009 - present
  • Fellow, International Academy of Education 2008 - present
  • Member, Expert Group Research Infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) 2008 - present
  • Member, Review Board Psychology of the German Research Foundation (Fachkommission Psychologie, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 2006 - 2008
  • Member, National Consortium, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 2004 - 2008
  • Guest Professor, University of Zürich, Switzerland 2005
  • Member, Advisory Board, Agency for Quality Management (Qualitätsagentur des Bayerischen Staatsinstituts für Schulqualität und Bildungsforschung) 2003 - 2008
  • Member, Advisory Board, Deutsch-Englisch-Schülerleistungen-International (DESI) 2002 - 2006
  • Member, National Consortium, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 2002 - 2006
  • Member, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), International Questionnaire Expert Group (QEG) 2002 – 2006
  • Visiting Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 2002, 2004
  • Member, Committee for Educational Reform of the Gymnasium, Bavaria (Bildungskommission Gymnasium) 2002 - 2004
  • Member, Committee for Teacher Education Reform, German Psychological Society (DGPs) 2001 - 2007
  • Distinguished International Affiliate, Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of Emotions, University of Haifa, Israel 1999 - present
  • Member, Committee for Teacher Education Reform, Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the “Länder” in the
  • Federal Republic of Germany (Kultusministerkonferenz ) 1998 - 2000
  • President, Stress and Anxiety Research Society 1996 - 1998
  • Treasurer, Stress and Anxiety Research Society 1988 - 1994
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Professional Organizations

  • American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Cognitive Science Society
  • German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs)
  • German Association for Empirical Educational Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung, AEPF)
  • European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
  • European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP)
  • International Academy of Education (IAE)
  • International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP)
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
  • Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR)
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Major Awards

  • Distinguished Research Professorship, University of Munich 2012
  • Fellowship Award for Oustanding Contributions to Educational Research, American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2012
  • Constitutory Chair for Education, Offer from the University of Oxford, UK 2011
  • Fellow Status, International Academy of Education (IAE) 2008
  • TransCoop Award, Goals and Emotions in Achievement Settings (with A. J. Elliot, M. A. Maier) 2007
  • Chair of Educational Psychology, Offer from the University of Munich, Germany 2000
  • TansCoop Award, Academic Risk Factors in College Students (with R. P. Perry) 2007
  • Chair of Education, Offer from the University of Konstanz, Germany 1997
  • Chair of Educational Psychology, Offer from the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany 1993
  • Fiebiger Award, Developmental Psychology 1991
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Editorial Boards

  • Co-Editor, Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal (Senior Editor 1996-2001) 1996 - 2006
  • Co-Editor, Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie (German Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology; Senior Editor 1997-199) 1995 - 2001
  • Advisory Board, APA Educational Psychology Handbook (3rd edition, 2016) 2010 - present
  • Editorial Board, Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal 2006 - present
  • Editorial Board, Contemporary Educational Psychology 2010 - present
  • Editorial Board, Learning and Instruction 2007 - 2009
  • Editorial Board, Educational Research Review 2005 - present
  • Editorial Board, Educational Researcher 2003 - 2007
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Psychology 2010 - present
  • Editorial Board, Metacognition and Learning 2011 - present
  • Editorial Board, Zeitschrift für Psychologie 2001 - present
  • Editorial Board, Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie 1996 - present
  • Editorial Board, Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht 1994 - 2006
  • Editorial Board, Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie 1988 - 1994
  • Editorial Board, Empirische Pädagogik 1986 - 1987
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Manuscript / Grant Reviewing

  • Advances in Test Anxiety Research
  • American Educational Research Journal
  • Anxiety, Stress and Coping
  • British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychologist
  • Educational Researcher
  • Educational Research Review
  • Empirische Pädagogik
  • European Journal of Psychology of Education
  • International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • International Journal of Educational Research
  • Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Testing
  • Learning and Instruction
  • Learning Environments Research
  • Metacognition and Learning
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie
  • Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht
  • Unterrichtswissenschaft
  • Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie
  • Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie
  • Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)
  • European Research Council (ERC)
  • German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
  • Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
  • Ministery of Education, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
  • National Science Foundation (NSF, USA)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
  • Stelle für Forschung und Entwicklung, Bern, Switzerland
  • Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany
  • Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen-Stiftung, Germany)
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Recent Research Grants

  • Learning Environments Across Disciplines (LEADS): Supporting Technology Rich Learning Across Disciplines (PI: Susanne Lajoie, McGill University; Theme leaders: R. Azevedo, J. Leighton, R. Pekrun). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; 2012-2019.
  • Epistemic Beliefs and Emotions: Examining their Roles in Self-regulated Learning and Epistemic Change (PI: K. Muis, McGill University: Collaborators: R. Azevedo, R. Pekrun, G. Sinatra). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; reference 410-2011-0182), 2011-2013.
  • Achievement Emotions: New Directions (R. Pekrun, A. J. Elliot). Excellence Initiative / German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG], 2008-2011.
  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Motivation and Emotion (L. Daniels, R. Pekrun). University of Alberta – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Partnership Fund, 2009-2010.
  • Project Developmental and Educational Neurosciences (B. Sodian, R. Pekrun). Excellence Initiative / German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG], 2007-2011.
  • Goals and Emotions in Achievement Settings (R. Pekrun, A. J. Elliot, M. A. Maier). TransCoop Program, German American Academic Council, 2007 - 2010.
  • PALMA, Project for the Analysis of Learning and Achievement in Mathematics [Projekt zur Analyse der Leistungsentwicklung in Mathematik] (with R. vom Hofe, W. Blum; principal investigator: R. Pekrun). German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG], 2000-2008.
  • DISUM, Didaktische Interventionsformen für einen selbständigkeitsorientierten aufgabengesteuerten Unterricht am Beispiel Mathematik [Classroom instruction fostering students’ self-regulated learning in mathematics] (with W. Blum, H. Messner). German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG], 2005-2010.
  • BrainMath: Changes in Brain Oxygenation in Children Solving Mathematical Problems as Measured by Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) (with A. Fallgatter, K. Reiss). Federal Ministery for Science and Education [BMBF], 2007-2008. R. Pekrun:
  • KOMMA, Kompendium Mathematik: Implementierung und Evaluation eines computergestützten Instruments zum Mathematikunterricht in den Klassen 8 und 9 [Implementation and evaluation of a computer-supported mathematics instruction in grades 8 and 9] (with K. Reiss). Federal Ministery for Science and Education [BMBF], 2005-2009.
  • OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006, German Consortium (with M. Prenzel et al.), 2004-2008. R. Pekrun:
  • LEGS, Leistungs- und Emotionsentwicklung in der Grundschule [Development of academic attainment and emotions in elementary school]. Zentrum für Begabungsforschung [Center for Giftedness Research], 2002-present.
  • OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, German consortium (with M. Prenzel et al.), 2001-2005.
  • Academic Risk Factors in College Students: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. TransCoop Program, German American Academic Council (R. Pekrun, R. P. Perry), 1997-2000.
  • LPE, Lern- und Prüfungsemotionen: Explorative Analysen und Entwicklung eines diagnostischen Instrumentariums [Emotions in learning and achievement: Exploratory analysis and development of diagnostic instruments]. Three grants, German Research Foundation [DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft], 1995-2000.
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Teaching Experience

Undergraduate Courses in Psychology, Education, and Teacher Training Programs

  • Human Development
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Personality and Social Psychology
  • Statistics
  • Test Theories

Graduate Courses in Psychology, Education, and Teacher Training Programs

  • Learning and Instruction
  • Achievement Motivation and Emotion
  • Families and Human Development
  • Primary and Secondary Educational Systems
  • Research Methods in Education and Educational Psychology
  • Educational and Psychological Testing
  • Quality Management in Education; International Assessment of Student Achievement

Further Education of Teachers

  • Programs in Counselling and Consulting
  • (“Beratungslehrer”; University of Munich and Teacher Academy Dillingen)
  • Training of Junior Researchers
  • Workshops, courses, and summer schools for doctoral students
  • 2001-2009: Primary supervisor for 17 doctoral dissertations; A. C. Frenzel: Junior Researcher Award, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 2004; Dissertation Award of the University of Munich 2005´

Training and Promotion of Junior Researchers

  • Workshops, courses, and summer schools for doctoral students
  • 2001-2010: Primary supervisor for 24 doctoral dissertations; A. C. Frenzel: Junior Researchers’ Best Paper Award, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction 2004; Dissertation Award of the University of Munich 2005
  • Post-docs supervised by R. Pekrun, 2001-2010: 12 offers for associate and full professorships