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Dr. Kathrin Thums

Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | NEPS Competencies

Vita

Research interests

  • Reading Comprehension
  • gender inequality

    • Publications

    2023

    Thums, K., Gehrer, K., Gnambs, T., Lockl, K., & Nusser, L. (2023). Data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany: Educational pathways of students in grade 5 and higher. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(3), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.79

    2022

    Molitor, K., Paul, F., Thums, K., & McElvany, N. (2022). Is the relation between family background and obtaining an Abitur mediated by malleable motivational variables? Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 25(2), 471–492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01096-x

    2021

    Thums, K., Artelt, C., & Wolter, I. (2021). Reading for entertainment or information reception? Gender differences in reading preferences and their impact on text-type-specific reading competences in adult readers. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 36(2), 339–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00486-1

    2020

    Thums, K., Gnambs, T., & Wolter, I. (2020). The impact of gender-stereotypical text contents on reading competence in women and men. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 23, 1283-1301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-020-00980-8

    Selected presentations and lectures

    2022

    Costa, J., Thums, K., & Alscher, P. (2022, September 5 - 7). Global Competence - A bibliometric analysis of the OECD analytical framework [Paper presentation]. sche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) ESD Commission Conference, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/113020807/DGfE_BNE_Kommissionstagung_2022
    Molitor, K., Fabian, P., Thums, K., & McElvany, N. (2022, July 18 - 22). Family background and educational attainment: The mediating role of malleable motivational factors [Paper presentation]. Junior Researchers (JURE) of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference, Porto, Portugal.

    2021

    Molitor, K., Paul, F., Thums, K., & McElvany, N. (14. - 16. November 2021). Mediieren motivationale Faktoren den Einfluss der sozialen Herkunft auf das Erreichen des Abiturs? [Vortrag]. PAEPSY 2021, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
    Thums, K. (16. - 17. September 2021). When do gender differences in reading competence diminish? A longitudinal study of reading competence of women and men from adolescence to young adulthood [Vortrag]. Anniversary BAGSS Conference, Bamberg, Germany.

    2019

    Thums, K. (1. August 2019). The impact of gender-stereotypical text contents on gender differences in reading competences [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the conference of Junior Researchers of the European Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (JURE), Aachen , Germany.
    Thums, K. (1. Juli 2019). When do gender differences in reading competence diminish? A longitudinal study of reading competence of women and men from adolescence to young adulthood [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the conference of the Society for Text & Discourse, New York City, USA.
    Thums, K., Gnambs, T., & Wolter, I. (1. Februar 2019). Der Einfluss von geschlechterstereotypen Textinhalten auf die Lesekompetenz von Frauen und Männern [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 7. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung, Köln, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., Schwabe, F., Artelt, C., & Wolter, I. (9. - 12. September 2019). When do gender differences in reading competence diminish? A longitudinal study of reading competence of women and men from adolescence to young adulthood [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Sections Developmental and Educational Psychology 2019, Leipzig, Germany.

    2018

    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. Februar 2018). Lesen Frauen schneller? Die Analyse von Geschlechtsunterschieden in Erstlesezeiten von Texten eines Lesekompetenztests anhand von Prozessdaten [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 6. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Basel, Schweiz.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. Januar 2018). Gender differences in initial reading times of a reading competence test [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the research seminar "competence, personality and development in different learning environments", Bamberg, Germany.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. Juli 2018). Lesen zur Unterhaltung oder zu Informationsaufnahme? Der Einfluss von Freizeitleseverhalten auf textsortenspezifische Lesekompetenz von Frauen und Männern [Posterpräsentation]. Posterpräsentation im Rahmen des 4. Symposiums der Empirischen Bildungsforschung, Dortmund, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. Juni 2018). The impact of gender-stereotypical text contents on gender differences in reading competences [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the research seminar "competence, personality and development in different learning environments", Bamberg, Germany.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. Mai 2018). Der Einfluss von geschlechterstereotypen Textinhalten auf die Lesekompetenz von Männern und Frauen [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums der Abteilung 2 des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsverläufe (LIfBi), Bamberg, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. November 2018). Der Einfluss von geschlechterstereotypen Textinhalten auf die Lesekompetenz von Frauen und Männern [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums des Instituts für Schulentwicklungsforschung, Dortmund, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. November 2018). Do women read faster? An analysis of process data to examine gender differences in the initial reading times of texts in a reading competence assessment [Posterpräsentation]. Poster presented at the 3rd International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. September 2018). Do women read faster? An analysis of process data to examine gender differences in the initial reading times of texts in a reading competence assessment [Posterpräsentation]. Poster presented at the 51st Congress of the German Society of Psychology (DGPs), Frankfurt, Germany.
    Thums, K., Gnambs, T., & Wolter, I. (1. August 2018). The impact of gender-stereotypical text contents on gender differences in reading competences [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 8th International Summer School on Literacy Research, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.
    Thums, K., Gnambs, T., & Wolter, I. (1. Juli 2018). The impact of gender-stereotypical text contents on gender differences in reading competences [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Brighton, England.

    2017

    Thums, K. (1. Mai 2017). The influence of reading behaviour on text-type-specific reading competences of women and men [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Educational and Developmental Research" of the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
    Thums, K., & Wolter, I. (1. September 2017). Lesen zur Unterhaltung oder zur Informationsaufnahme? Der Einfluss von Freizeitleseverhalten auf die Lesekompetenz [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 82. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Tübingen, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., Buntins, K., Gnambs, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (1. Oktober 2017). Context effects in large-scale assessments: Domain-specific competence measurement in group and indiviual administrations [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 2nd International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany.
    Thums, K., Wolter, I., & Gnambs, T. (1. Juni 2017). "Meine Frau liest gerne Romane, ich lese gerne Krimis!" Können Geschlechtsunterschiede in der Lesekompetenz durch die Geschlechtskonnotation von Textinhalten und die individuellen Leseinteressen erklärt werden? [Posterpräsentation]. Posterpräsentation im Rahmen des 3. Symposium der Empirischen Bildungsforschung des Institut für Schulentwicklungsforschung, Dortmund, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., Wolter, I., & Gnambs, T. (1. September 2017). "Meine Frau liest gerne Romane, ich lese gerne Krimis!" Können Geschlechtsunterschiede in der Lesekompetenz durch die Geschlechtskonnotation von Textinhalten und die individuellen Leseinteressen erklärt werden? [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 14. Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, München, Deutschland.
    Thums, K., Wolter, I., & Gnambs, T. (1. September 2017). How gender connotation in text contents and individual reading interests explain gender differences in reading competences [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the ZIB-Akademie 2017, Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.