Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Dr. Jakob Schwerter

I use large-scale data, experiments, and advanced quantitative methods to understand how educational decisions and digital learning environments can better support all students and reduce inequalities.

Jakob Schwerter is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology and a member of the Hector Research Institute's „Startchancen" team. His research focuses on educational effectiveness (including policy analysis, educational trajectories, gender differences), self-regulated learning (with a focus on retrieval practice) and learning analytics (including educational data science). He works with his own data collections and secondary data from learners in primary, secondary and higher education. The central question in his research is how learners can be supported.

Before joining the Hector Research Institute, Jakob Schwerter worked as a postdoc at the Technical University of Dortmund (2020-2025), in particular in the FAIR profile area as an interdisciplinary interface between educational research and statistics. Prior to that, he was a doctoral student at the Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in economics (2016-2020).

Address

University of Tübingen
Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
72072 Tübingen, Germany, Room 206

Contact

07071/29-74385
jakob.schwerterspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 
 
 

 

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Publications

Publications

  • Schwerter, J., Lauermann, F., Brahm, T., & Murayama, K. (2025). Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages? Learning and Individual Differences, 123(102761), 1–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102761
  • Schwerter, J., Lauermann, F., Doebler, P., & Fokkema, M. (2025). Putting the pieces of the puzzle together in modeling gendered educational choices. International Journal of STEM Education, 12(38). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-025-00558-y
  • von Keyserlingk, L., Schwerter, J., Kunina-Habenicht, O., & Lauermann, F. (2025). Motivation and self-regulated learning as predictors of learning resource use in learning management systems in higher education. Educational Psychology, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2025.2564891
  • Föge, N., Schwerter, J., Gurtskaia, K., Pauly, M., & Doebler, P. (2025). Adapting tree-based multiple imputation methods for multi-level data? A simulation study (No. arXiv:2401.14161). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.14161
  • Schwerter, J., Netz, N., & Hübner, N. (2024). Does instructional time at school influence study time at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform. Economics of Education Review, 100(102526). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102526
  • Schwerter, J., Stang-Rabrig, J., Kleinkorres, R., Bleher, J., Doebler, P., & McElvany, N. (2024). Importance of students’ social resource factors for academic achievement and well-being in elementary school. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 39, 4515–4552. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00877-8
  • Schwerter, J., & Brahm, T. (2024). Voluntary E-Learning Exercises Support Students in Mastering Statistics. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-023-09714-1
  • Holz, H., Ninaus, M., Schwerter, J., Parrisius, C., Beuttler, B., Brandelik, K., & Meurers, D. (2023). A Digital Game-Based Training Improves Spelling in German Primary School Children - A Randomized Controlled Field Trial. Learning and Instruction, 87(101771). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101771
  • Schwerter, J., & Ilg, L. (2023). Gender differences in the labour market entry of STEM graduates. European Journal of Higher Education, 13(3), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2021.2010226
  • Ludewig, U., Schwerter, J., & McElvany, N. (2023). The Features of Plausible but Incorrect Options: Distractor Plausibility in Synonym-Based Vocabulary Tests. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 41(7), 711–731. https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829231167892
  • Stang-Rabrig, J., Schwerter, J., Witmer, M., & McElvany, N. (2022). Beneficial and negative factors for the development of students’ well-being in educational context. Current Psychology, 0123456789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04067-x
  • Biewen, M., & Schwerter, J. (2022). Does more maths and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? Evidence from a curriculum reform. Applied Economics, 54(16), 1889–1911. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1983139
  • Schwerter, J., Wortha, F., & Gerjets, P. (2022). E-Learning with multiple-try-feedback: Can hints foster students’ achievement during the semester? Educational Technology Research and Development, 70, 713–736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-022-10105-z
  • Schwerter, J., Dimpfl, T., Bleher, J., & Murayama, K. (2022). Benefits of additional online practice opportunities in higher education. Internet and Higher Education, 53, 100834. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2021.100834
  • Goldberg, P., Schwerter, J., Seidel, T., Müller, K., & Stürmer, K. (2021). How does learners’ behavior attract preservice teachers’ attention during teaching? Teaching and Teacher Education, 97, 103213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2020.103213
  • Dawidowsky, K., Holz, H., Schwerter, J., Pieronczyk, I., & Meurers, D. (2021). Development and Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Reading Fluency Test for Primary School Children. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, MobileTogether. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472033
  • Hackenberger, A., Rümmele, M., Schwerter, J., & Sturm, M. (2021). Elections and unemployment benefits for families: Did the Family Benefit Dispute affect election outcomes in Germany? European Journal of Political Economy, 66, 101955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101955

Curriculum Vitae

Since 03/2025
Post-Doc Researcher

Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen

03/2022 - 02/2025
Post-Doc Researcher

Statistical Methods in Social Sciences, 
Faculty of Statistics, TU Dortmund University

12/2020
PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in Economics

Title: "Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Educational Decisions on Labor Market Outcomes and the Influence of Self-Testing on Learning Outcomes'', 
at University of Tübingen, Chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods, Germany.

11/2020 - 02/2025
Post-Doc Researcher

Center for Research on Education and School Development (IFS), 
TU Dortmund University

10/2016 - 10/2020
Research Associate

Chair of Econometrics and Quantitative Methods, 
University of Tübingen