Nina Jude

Co-Principal Investigator

Nina Jude is co-principal investigator on IES Grant # R305D220012 “Bayesian Probabilistic Forecasting with International Large-Scale Assessments.” She is the director of the Institut für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) and head of the Department for National and International Education Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Jude is an internationally recognized authority on policy and design issues associated with international large-scale assessments, and she will be responsible for the substantive and policy-oriented focus of this work. Her current research focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education. Together with an international research consortium, she initiated a tri-national longitudinal study on school development in challenging times supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Jude has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and edited volumes focusing on (a) the dimensionality of constructs in multilevel settings, (b) the relevance of context factors for education, and (c) secondary analyses of PISA data using context questionnaire information over time to track countries’ progress in different content areas. Her broad knowledge of quality indicators for learning and instruction is applied in regular teacher-training courses at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg.