Research Interests

• Effectiveness research (all-day school, school integration/inclusion, grade retention), development in school achievement as well as socioemotional development of students

• Extended education: development in school achievement and socioemotional development of primary school students, educational quality

• Educational quality of all-day schools (teaching and extended education offerings)

• Intervention studies in class and extended education offerings

• Immigrant students: acculturation orientation and school success or well-being

• Multiprofessional collaboration in school and teaching (e.g team teaching, in inclusive learning settings, in all-day schools)

• (Collaboration of) school and parents/family

• School transitions: grade retention, school entry

• Methodological approach: quantitative and qualitative (longitudinal) studies

Education

• 2009 Habilitation, University of Bern (CH), Faculty of Human Sciences, ‘Venia docendi’ in Educational Sciences 

• 2005 Professor title conferred, School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW (CH) 

• 2004 PhD, University of Fribourg (CH)

• 2000 Master`s degree (Lic. phil.) in education and educational psychology (minor subjects special education and social psychology), University of Zurich (CH) 

• 1993 Teaching certificate, primary school and Realschule Teachers College (HPL), Zofingen (CH)

Professional Appointments/Employment

• Since March 1, 2019 W3 Professorship of Primary Education at Freie Universität Berlin

• 2014 – 2019 W3 Professorship of Primary Education, University of Bamberg

• 2014 Offer (1st place on list; ‘list of one’) of W3 Professorship for Education Science with Focus on School and Teaching Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen (declined)

• 2014 Offer (1st place on list) of W3 Professorship for Education Science with Focus on School Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (declined)

• 2011 – 2013 Deputy professor of school and teaching research at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Bern; and interim division head of Division of School and Teaching Research at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Bern

• 2010 – 2014 Assistant professor of research on teaching and school at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Bern

• 2006 – 2010 Project head of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) study EduCare; (senior) teaching and research assistant at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Bern, Division of Educational Psychology 

• Professor of education; and division head of research at the Institute of Research and Development at University of Teacher Education Solothurn, which became the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW on 1/1/2006 

• 2003 – 2004 Operative project head of the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) project Professional Minds at the Professorship of Education and Educational Psychology. Department of Education Sciences, University of Fribourg (CH)

• 2002 – 2005 Lecturer at Division for Secondary School Teachers, Department of Education Sciences, University of Fribourg (CH)

• 2000 – 2003 Research associate in the SNSF study Intsep-R - Klassenwiederholung [grade retention] at the Department of Special Education, University of Fribourg (CH)

• 1997 – 1999 Student assistant at the Department of Educational Psychology II, Institute of Education, University of  Zurich

• 1993 – 2000 Teacher (mainstream and special education classes) in Canton of Aargau (CH), primary and secondary school

Commission Work

Current

• Since 2019 Deputy chair of the Examination Board of the School of Education (‘Dahlem School of Education’) at Freie Universität Berlin 

• Since 2020 Member of the Examination Board Bachelor/Special Needs Education (high school level) at Freie Universität Berlin

Previous

• 2017 – 2019 Deputy director of the Institute for Educational Science, University of Bamberg (DE)

• 2015 – 2019 Member of the Faculty Council of Human Sciences and Education, University of Bamberg (DE) 

• 2015 – 2019 Member of the PhD Examination Committee, Faculties of Human Sciences and Education/Humanities, University of Bamberg

• 2017 – 2019 Member of the Teaching Award Committee, Faculty of Human Sciences and Education, University of Bamberg
  

• 2010 – 2014 Member of the Faculty Committee of Human Sciences, University of Bern

• 2010 – 2014 Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Bern

• 2010 – 2014 Member of the Commission for Educational Counselling–School Psychology, University of Bern

Professional Memberships and Board Activities

• Co-Chair of the International Research Network (IRN) Extended Education of the Word Education Research Association (WERA) (since 2017)

• Member of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung - GEBF)

• Member of the Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE/SGBF), Member of the board (2011 – 2015)

• Member of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

• Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Member of the German Educational Research Association (GERA/DGfE)

Co-editor/Journals

• International Journal for Research on Extended Education (IJREE), Link: http://www.ijree.com/the-journal.html

see Professor Marianne Schüpbach`s German website ('Lehre')

Research Projects

Publications (German list of publications)