About us

The Research Data Centre at the IQB archives and documents data sets and accompanying materials from quantitative empirical educational research. This includes studies from the fields of educational science, educational psychology, educational sociology, educational economics and teaching methods.

8 good reasons for you to contact the FDZ at the IQB 🔗

  • We are experts in skills data and its analysis.
  • We provide information and advice on the use of data.
  • We organize the Academy on Methods of Empirical Educational Research twice a year.
  • We are working hard to expand the research data infrastructure in the education sector.
  • We are a partner in the German Network of Educational Research Data (VerbundFDB).
  • We are part of the Centre for International Student Assessment e. V. (ZIB).
  • We are an accredited and certified data repository.
  • We are engaged in the Open Science movement.

Our tasks 🔗

The main task of the Research Data Centre at the IQB is to secure and provide data sets from national and international school performance studies for cross-national education monitoring (PISA, TIMSS, IGLU and IQB Trends in Student Achievment).

The Research Data Centre at the IQB specialises in curating data sets and accompanying materials from studies involving competence measurements. The competences measured in the studies can be discipline-specific or interdisciplinary.

Data sets from studies without competency tests are not accepted by the Research Data Centre at the IQB. Other partners in the German Network of Educational Research Data (VerbundFDB) are responsible for this.

Visibility 🔗

The FDZ at the IQB can be found at re3data.org and FAIRsharing.org.

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re3data.org

The FDZ at the IQB can be found at re3data.org.

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FAIRsharing.org

The FDZ at the IQB can be found at FAIRsharing.org.

Accreditation and certification 🔗

The FDZ at the IQB is accredited by the RatSWD and certified with the CoreTrustSeal.

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Accreditation

The FDZ at the IQB has been accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) and aligns its work with the RatSWD's criteria.

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Certification

The FDZ at the IQB is certified with the CoreTrustSeal for trustworthy repositories.

We appreciate beautiful data!

Find out more about our projects at the FDZ at the IQB here!

Connected through data!

We are thoroughly connected. Discover it yourself!

How do we work?

These include rules of procedure, collection guidelines, FAIR principles, CoreTrustSeal, long-term archiving, contracts and, last but not least, good scientific practice.

Who are we?

Our team introduces itself: Which projects and publications have we contributed to, and for which are we responsible?

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