Dr. phil. Theresa Rohm

Kompetenzen, Persönlichkeit, Lernumwelten | NEPS-Etappe 4: Wege durch die Sekundarstufe I und Übergänge in die Sekundarstufe II

Vita

10/2025 – Heute
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am LIfBi, Abteilung Kompetenzen, Persönlichkeit, Lernumwelten, in der Etappe 4
07/2022
Promotion in Empirischer Bildungsforschung, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Titel: „Analyzing the context of large-scale educational assessments using multilevel latent variable modeling“
09/2021– 09/2025
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Arbeitsgruppe Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik des Instituts für Psychologie an der Universität Bremen, im DFG-finanzierten Projekt „TwinLife – Eine verhaltensgenetische Studie zur Entwicklung von sozialer Ungleichheit“
01/2021– 08/2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am LIfBi, Abteilung Kompetenzen, Persönlichkeit, Lernumwelten, im Arbeitsbereich Kompetenzen
02/2019– 05/2019
Forschungsaufenthalt an der Universität Wisconsin-Madison (USA) im Fachbereich Bildungspsychologie
05/2015– 04/2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am LIfBi, Abteilung Methodenentwicklung, Bereich Pädagogisch-Psychologische Methoden
04/2015– 09/2020
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt "Analyse der Beziehungen zwischen latenten Kompetenzen und Kontextinformationen in den NEPS Startkohorten" im Rahmen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Education as a Lifelong Process" (SPP 1646)
04/2013– 03/2016
Masterstudium Politikwissenschaft, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
10/2009– 03/2013
Bachelorstudium Politikwissenschaft, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Forschungsinteressen

  • Modellierung latenter Kompetenzen
  • Kompetenzentwicklung im der Primar- und Sekundarschule
  • Längsschnittliche Methoden
  • Survey-Forschung

Publikationen

2021

Fischer, L., Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., & Gnambs, T. (2021). Linking of rasch-scaled tests: Consequences of limited item pools and model misfit. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 633896. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633896
Gnambs, T., Scharl, A., & Rohm, T. (2021). Comparing perceptual speed between educational contexts: The case of students with special educational needs. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 2(1), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000013
Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (2021). Disentangling interviewer and area effects in large-scale educational assessments using cross-classified multilevel item response models. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9(4), 722–744. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smaa015
Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (2021). The achievement gap in reading competence: The effect of measurement non-invariance across school types. Large-scale Assessments in Education, 9, Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40536-021-00116-2
Scharl, A., Rohm, T., & Zink, E. (2021). NEPS Technical Report for reading – Scaling results of Starting Cohort 2 in seventh grade (NEPS Survey Paper No. 85). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP85:1.0

2019

Fischer, L., Gnambs, T., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2019). Longitudinal linking of Rasch-model-scaled competence tests in large-scale assessments: A comparison and evaluation of different linking methods and anchoring designs based on two tests on mathematical competence administered in grades 5 and 7. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 61(1), 37-64.
Rohm, T., Scharl, A., Ettner, J., & Gehrer, K. (2019). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of Starting Cohorts 4 (wave 10), 5 (wave 12), and 6 (wave 9) (NEPS Survey Paper No. 62). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP62:1.0

2017

Fischer, L., Rohm, T., & Gnambs, T. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for mathematics: Scaling results of Starting Cohort 4 for grade 12 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 12). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP12:1.0
Gnambs, T., Fischer, L., & Rohm, T. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of Starting Cohort 4 for grade 12 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 13). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP13:1.0
Krannich, M., Jost, O., Rohm, T., Koller, I., Pohl, S., Haberkorn, K., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of Starting Cohort 3 for grade 7 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 14). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP14:2.0
Rohm, T., Freund, M.-J., Gnambs, T., & Fischer, L. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for listening comprehension: Scaling results of starting cohort 3 for grade 9 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 21). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP21:1.0
Rohm, T., Krohmer, K., & Gnambs, T. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of Starting Cohort 2 for Grade 4 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 30). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP30:1.0
Scharl, A., Fischer, L., Gnambs, T., & Rohm, T. (2017). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of starting cohort 3 for grade 9 (NEPS Survey Paper No. 20). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP20:1.0

2016

Fischer, L., Rohm, T., Gnambs, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2016). Linking the data of the competence tests (NEPS Survey Paper No. 1). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, National Educational Panel Study. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:SP01:1.0

2014

Koller, I., Haberkorn, K., & Rohm, T. (2014). NEPS Technical Report for reading: Scaling results of Starting Cohort 6 for adults in main study 2012 (NEPS Working Paper No. 48). Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:WP48:1.0

Ausgewählte Präsentationen und Vorträge

2022

Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (2022, March 9 - 11). The achievement gap in reading competence: The effect of measurement non-invariance across school types [Paper presentation]. 9th Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF), Bamberg, Germany.

2021

Rohm, T. (11. Februar 2021). The relation between parents' educational expectation and mathematic achievement of children in elementary school [Vortrag]. Statistisch-psychometrisches Forschungsseminar, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (8. Juni 2021). The achievement gap in reading competence: The effect of measurement non-invariance across school types [Vortrag]. 6th International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (9. - 11. Juni 2021). Overview on competence tests [Vortrag]. YouthLife project advanced training school: Methods of data collection, Tallinn, Estonia. https://www.tlu.ee/en/taxonomy/term/2155/events/youthlife-project-advanced-training-school-methods-data-collection

2019

Scharl, A., Carstensen, C. H., Rohm, T., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (1. Februar 2019). Estimating plausible values with NEPS tools [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the Colloquium of the SPP 1646 "Education as a Lifelong Process", Bamberg, Germany.

2018

Rohm, T. (1. Oktober 2018). Reading trajectories of students within secondary school context: Applying a multilevel structural equation model [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the CIDER-LERN Workshop, 2nd Interdiscplinary Workshop for Junior Educational Researchers, Berlin, Germany.
Rohm, T., & Heyne, N. (1. September 2018). Predictors of reading competence at primary school: A multilevel perspective on "composition effects" [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Society of Psychology, Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
Rohm, T., & Heyne, N. (27. Juni 2018). Predictors of reading competence at primary school: A multilevel perspective on "composition effects" [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the research seminar of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany.

2017

Fischer, L., Gnambs, T., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (1. Juni 2017). Game of growth: IRT linking-methods on the battlefield of longitudinal designs [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Educational and Developmental Research" of the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Lux, C., & Rohm, T. (14. März 2017). Der Einfluss von Selbstkonzept, akademischer Leistung und familiären Ressourcen auf die Berufsaspirationen Jugendlicher [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 5. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Heidelberg, Deutschland.
Rohm, T. (1. August 2017). Measuring student abilities and assessing differences between classes and school types [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the SPP 1646 Summer School, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (1. Juli 2017). Einführung in STATA [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen eines Workshops des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsverläufe (LIfBi), Bamberg, Deutschland.
Rohm, T., & Lux, C. (1. März 2017). Der Zusammenhang von Berufsberatungsangeboten und akademischen Berufsaspirationen von Schüler/innen der zehnten Klassenstufe: Mehrebenenmodellierungen für Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der Nachwuchstagung der 5. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Heidelberg, Deutschland.
Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (1. Juli 2017). Interviewer effects in large-scale assessments of competence: Using posterior distributions to identify interviewers with effects on the assessment [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lisbon, Portugal.
Rohm, T., Carstensen, C. H., Fischer, L., & Gnambs, T. (1. Oktober 2017). Interviewer effects in large-scale assessments of competence: Using posterior distributions to identify interviewers with effects on the assessment [Vortrag]. Paper presented at the 2nd International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T., Lux, C., & Gnambs, T. (1. März 2017). Zur Wirksamkeit von Beratungs- und Unterstützungsangeboten von Lehrkräften in der Berufswahlentscheidung von Schüler/innen der zehnten Jahrgangsstufe: Verringerung der Geschlechtssegregation für MINT-Berufe? [Vortrag]. Vortrag im Rahmen der 5. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Heidelberg, Deutschland.

2016

Fischer, L., Gnambs, T., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2016, May 1). Proficiency development or methodological artifact? A simulation study on the robustness of IRT linking methods applied to Rasch scaled longitudinal data [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the Colloquium of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1646, Florence, Italy.
Lux, C., & Rohm, T. (2016, September 1). Why do students aspire to an academic career? An empirical study on parents´ impact on realistic career aspirations of students in eleventh grade [Poster presentation]. Poster presented at the the Summer School in Higher Education and Social Sciences at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hanover, Germany.
Rohm, T. (1. April 2016). 3-Ebenen IRT-Modell für Bildungsdaten des Nationalen Bildungspanels - Wie kann die geschichtete Struktur des deutschen Schulsystems abgebildet werden? [Vortrag]. 12. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Innsbruck, de.
Rohm, T. (1. Juni 2016). Einführung in die Skalierung mit IRT-Modellen [Sonstiges]. Vortrag im Rahmen eines Workshops zum Projekt "BiSpra - Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzen" an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg.
Rohm, T. (2016, January 1). Multilevel latent class modeling for Grade 5 students in NEPS SC3 [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Educational and Developmental Research" of the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (2016, July 27 - 29). Disentangling interviewer and area effects in large scale educational assessments through Multilevel IRT-Modeling [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the VII European Congress of Methodology, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Rohm, T. (2016, June 1). Disentangling interviewer and area effects through multilevel IRT-Modeling [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Methods of Educational Research" of the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (2016, June 1). Disentangling interviewer and area effects through Multilevel IRT-Modeling [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the summer school of the DFG Priority Programme 1646, Bamberg, Germany.
Rohm, T. (2016, September 1). Disentangling interviewer and area effects in large scale educational assessments through Multilevel IRT-Modeling [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the Colloquium of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1646, Florence, Italy.

2015

Fischer, L., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (15. September 2015). Ein Vergleich verschiedener Linkmethoden und ihrer Linkfehler anhand Rasch skalierter Kompetenzdaten [Vortrag]. 12. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Methoden & Evaluation.
Fischer, L., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2015, July 12 - 16). Comparing link methods based on their link errors [Poster presentation]. Poster presented at the international meeting of the Psychometric Society at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Fischer, L., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2015, June 1). Comparing link methods based on their link errors [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Educational research and statistical methods" at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Fischer, L., Rohm, T., & Carstensen, C. H. (2015, June 1). How can the stratified structure of the German school system be modelled within a 3-Level IRT-approach? [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the research seminar on "Educational research and statistical methods" at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Deutschland.
Rohm, T., Fischer, L., & Carstensen, C. H. (16. - 18. September 2015). 3-Ebenen IRT-Modell für Bildungsdaten des Nationalen Bildungspanels - Wie kann die geschichtete Struktur des deutschen Schulsystems abgebildet werden? [Posterpräsentation]. 12. Fachtagung "Methoden und Evaluation" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Jena, de.
Rohm, T., Fischer, L., & Carstensen, C. H. (2015, July 12 - 16). How can the stratified structure of the German school system be modelled within a 3-Level IRT-approach? [Poster presentation]. Poster presented at the international meeting of the Psychometric Society at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Rohm, T., Fischer, L., & Carstensen, C. H. (2015, October 1 - 2). Students nested in classes: A 3-Level IRT-Approach for Grade 5 students in NEPS Starting Cohort 3 [Paper presentation]. Paper presented at the opening meeting of the 2nd Funding Phase of the DFG Priority Programme 1646, Bamberg, Germany.