Primary Education

To enhance the quality of schools and teaching at the primary level, various programmes for teachers, schools, educational administrators, and policymakers are developed at the IQB. These include:

StarS

The collaborative project “StarS – Starting Strong in Primary School” aims to give every child the best possible start to learning at school, and to reduce the often significant differences in learning conditions among students at the start of school. To this end, the project creates tools to assess initial learning levels and to measure learning progress.
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VERA-3

The Nationwide Assessment Tests in Grade 3 (VERA-3) assess to what extent students in each class already meet the educational standards in German and Mathematics. The results are intended for use in everyday school practice - primarily by teachers and headteachers, and in some federal states also by the school supervisory authorities. They provide feedback on where teaching needs adjustment to ensure that every child can meet the educational standards.
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IQB Trends in Student Achievement in Primary Education

The IQB Trends in Student Achievement regularly evaluate how students across all German federal states meet the educational standards in German and Mathematics at the end of primary school. The results provide the federal states with a clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of their school systems and are intended to support educational administrators and policymakers in monitoring and improving their systems.
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Pilot and standardisation studies

Before test items are used nationwide for educational monitoring, they are trialled in pilot and standardisation studies. Pilot studies aim to optimise test items, while data from standardisation studies inform the development of proficiency level models.
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Tasks

Find test items and learning tasks for primary education in the IQB Task Browser.
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