Prof. Dr. Andreas Frey (Head of department)
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Prof. Dr. Andreas FreyPEG, Room 5.G133, 5th floor Consultation hours: Currently, the consultations are carried out using ZOOM. |
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Career
Since 04/2020 | Scientific Director of the Psychological Counselling Centre MAINKIND, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
Since 09/2018 |
Full Professor (W3) for Educational Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2016 to 2021 | Professor II at the Centre for Educational Measurement at the University of Oslo (CEMO), Norway |
04/2016 to 08/2018 | Full Professor (W3) for Empirical Methods of Educational Research, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany |
04/2015 to 05/2015 | Visiting researcher/consultant, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA |
03/2011 to 03/2016 | Associate Professor (W2) for Empirical Methods of Educational Research, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany |
2010 to 2011 | Professor (stand-in) of Educational Measurement at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt, Germany |
2009 to 2010 | Senior Research Scientist, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN), Kiel, Germany |
2005 to 2008 | Research Coordinator of the OECD Study PISA 2006 (Programme for International Student Assessment), Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN), Kiel, Germany |
2004 to 2005 | Research assistant, University of Bremen, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Bremen, Germany |
2005 | Ph.D. in psychology with summa cum laude, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2000 to 2004 | Research assistant, Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany), Chair for Psychological Methods |
1999 | Research assistant, project “Virtuelle Hochschule Oberrhein” (VIROR), University of Mannheim, Germany |
Professional Activities and Service
- Associate editor Behavior Research Methods
- Editorial board member Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
- Editorial board member Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling
- Editorial board member Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing
- Advisory board member ITEMS - educational module series within the journal Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
- Head of the work unit Educational Psychology: Measurement, Evaluation and Counselling
- Chair Joint Examination Board Psychology (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Member Council of the Faculty 05 Psychology and Sport Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Member of the Psychology Studies Committee, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Member of the German consortium Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 (PIRLS)
- Scientific advisory board member KERMIT-Online (project “measuring competencies”, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Hanseatic City of Bremen)
- Scientific advisory board member project ProSECoM (Promotion of Social and Emotional Competences of Medical Assistants), Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
- Expert in the “PISA Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Programme on Multi Stage Adaptive Testing”, OECD
- Conference chair of the 2022 meeting of the International Association of Computerized Adaptive Testing (IACAT)