Claus Carstensen

DEAN OF THE FACULTY HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

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Office: Wilhelmsplatz 3, Room: R.125, 96047 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: claus.carstensen(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-3447
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Pillar 1: Education, Personal Development and Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood
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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Dean of the Faculty Human Sciences and Education
Professor of Psychology and Methods of Educational Research
Deputy Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Claus H. Carstensen is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of competence assessments, longitudinal data analyses and latent variable modelling.

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// RESEARCH

His research focuses on Methods of Educational Research (Item response theory, Methods of large scale assessments, Modeling of longitudinal data) and Diagnostics of competency development in the life course International comparative educational research.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Nationales Bildungspanel (NEPS), Arbeitsbereiche Kompetenzentwicklung über die Lebensspanne und Skalierung und Testdesign.

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Theresa Rohm, Claus H. Carstensen, Luise Fischer, Timo Gnambs (2021). The achievement gap in reading competence: the effect of measurement non-invariance across school types. Large-scale Assessments in Education 9(1), DOI: 10.1186/s40536-021-00116-2

Luise Fischer, Theresa Rohm, Claus H. Carstensen, Timo Gnambs (2021). Linking of Rasch-Scaled Tests: Consequences of Limited Item Pools and Model Misfit. Frontiers in Psychology 12. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633896

Fischer, L., Gnambs, T., Rohm, T. & Carstensen, C. H. (2019). Longitudinal linking of Rasch-model-scaled competence tests in large-scale assessments: A comparison and evaluation of different linking methods and anchoring designs based on two tests on mathematical competence administered in grades 5 and 7. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling 61:37-64.

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Professor Carstensen's website at the Professorship of Psychology and Methods of Educational Research.

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