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Mag. DDr. Christiane SPIEL Professor, Head, Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna

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1975 Dr. phil. in History, University of Vienna
1975-1978 High School Teacher, Mathematics and History, Vienna
1976 Mag.rer.nat. (Diplom) in Mathematics, University of Vienna
1980-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
1985 Dr.rer.nat. in Psychology, University of Vienna
1989-1992 Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin
1990-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
1995 Habilitation (venia docendi) in psychology, University of Vienna
1995-2000 Invited Visiting Professor of Applied Psychology und Methodology, Department of Psychology, University of Graz
1998-1999 Provisional Vice-Rector for personal development and higher education, University of Graz
since 2000 Chair Bildung-Psychology and Evaluation, University of Vienna
2004-2006 Funding Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
since 2006 Head, Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna (before 2011: Department of Economic Psychology, Educational Psychology and Evaluation)

Mitgliedschaften

President of the European Society for Developmental Psychology, 2007-2009
President of the DeGEval - Society for Evaluation, 2003-2011
President of the Austrian Psychology Association, 2010-2014
Vicechair of the Board of Directors of the Wuppertal University, since 2007
Chair of the European Expert Panel for Psychology in the project "European Reference Index for the Humanities" of the European Science Foundation (ESF), 2007-2008
Chair of the Division Methods and Evaluation of the German Psychological Society, 2003-2005

Publikationen

Spiel C., Schober B., Reimann R.: Modelling and measurement of competencies in higher education: The contribution of scientific evaluation, In: Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia O., Blömeke S. (Eds.): Modelling and measurement of competencies in higher education, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2013, 195-206
Spiel C., Schober B., Wagner P., Finsterwald M.: Assuring Successful Lifelong Learning, Can Neuroscience Provide the Key?, In: Della Sala S., Anderson M. (Eds.), Neuroscience in Education, Oxford University Press, 2012, 286-298
Spiel C., Strohmeier D.: Evidence-based practice and policy: When researchers, policy makers, and practitioners learn how to work together. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9 (1), 2012, 150-162
Spiel C., Lapka D., Gradinger P., Zodlhofer E. M., Reimann R., Schober B., Wagner P., von Eye A.: A euclidean distance-based matching procedure for non-randomized comparison studies. European Psychologist, 13 (3), 2008, 180-187

Auszeichnungen

Science Award of the Margarete Lupac Foundation of the Austrian Parliament for Parliamentarism and Democracy, 2011
Medal of honour of the Leibniz University Hannover, 2010
Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria, 2010
Käthe-Leichter-Award for Gender Research from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Culture, and Cultural Affairs, 2009
Best practice award for creative teaching (E-Learning) from the University of Vienna, 2002