Dr. Livia Kuklick Awarded Publication Prize by Professional Association

Every year, the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF – Society for Empirical Educational Research) awards two junior researcher prizes for publications that communicate the concerns or results of empirical educational research particularly convincingly. As in the previous year, one of the prizes, which was awarded yesterday at the 11th General Assembly of the GEBF at the University of Potsdam, went to a researcher from the IPN. Dr. Livia Kuklick, who works as a Research Scientist in the IPN's Department of Educational Research and Educational Psychology, received the award in the category for doctoral students.

Dr. Livia Kuklick completed her award-winning thesis as part of her doctorate in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Marlit Lindner in the COMET (Cognition and Motivation in Educational Testing) project. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of automated feedback in learning with computer-based test environments. Her experimental work focuses on the affective-motivational effects of different types of feedback.

With her publication, she has succeeded in gathering the first empirical findings on the previously little-researched effects of different types of automated error messages on various emotions and aspects of motivation. The study was published in the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology.

Kuklick, L., & Lindner, M. A. (2023). Affective-motivational effects of performance feedback in computer-based assessment: Does error message complexity matter?. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 73, 102146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102146