Petra Stanat

Petra Stanat holds a position as full Professor for Educational Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. She worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin where she managed the international part of the first cycle of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2000) for Germany. One of her current research focuses is on conditions of immigrant students’ educational success. In cooperation with Gayle Christensen, she has written an OECD report on the situation of immigrant students in countries participating in PISA. She is a member of the German PISA 2009 Consortium, the Board of Directors of the Institute for School Quality Berlin-Brandenburg (ISQ), the German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD), and the Advisory Board of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BaMF). She has published widely on questions of educational equity associated with students’ immigrant status and gender, on second-language teaching and learning, on school success in international comparison, and on PISA her last book (co-authored with Jürgen Baumet and R. Watermann) is Herkunftsbedingte Disparitäten im Bildungswesen: Differenzielle Bildungsprozesse und Probleme der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit: Vertiefende Analysen im Rahmen von PISA 2000 (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2006).

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