06.11.2020

Congratulations to Lisa Bardach

for receiving an award for her doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Lisa Bardach for receiving the dissertation award 2020 of the Austrian Society of Psychology, endowed with 800 €, for her doctoral thesis "Classroom goal structures in secondary education - Motivational climate and shared perceptions".

Lisa Bardach is a senior researcher and junior research group leader at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology. Her research program centers on understanding and promoting students’ adaptive development, particularly in the motivational domain, but also regarding cognitive, socio-emotional and personality aspects, and (self-regulated) learning strategies. A further major emphasis of her research program focuses on the role of teachers and teaching quality in fostering adaptive student outcomes. In addition, she is interested in cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics and competences of effective teachers and does research on teacher selection, recruitment, and professional development.