Dr. rer. nat. Marie Hornberger

Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | Competencies
Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | NEPS Competencies

Vita

03/2026 – Today
Research Associate in the Working Unit "Competencies" at Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
07/2025
Dr. rer. nat. at Technical University of Munich
01/2022– 11/2025
Research Associate at TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich
10/2020– 10/2021
M.Sc. Psychologie at University of Tübingen
10/2016– 09/2020
B.Sc. Psychologie at University of Tübingen

Research interests

  • AI literacy
  • Digital Competence
  • Competence assessment
  • Higher and teacher education in the field of AI
  • Teaching and learning with AI

Publications

2026

Thoms, L.-J., Bruckermann, T., Thyssen, C., Meier, M., von Kotzebue, L., Arnold, J., Belova, N., Lahme, S. Z., Heuckmann, B., Lenzer, S., Schorn, B., Hornberger, M., Finger, A., ter Horst, N., Peter, S., Kremser, E., Ciprina, S., Huwer, J., & Becker-Genschow, S. (2026). DiKoLAN-SK – Development of a measurement instrument for academic self-concept of digitalization-related competencies in science education. Computers and Education Open, 10, 100338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2026.100338

2025

Bewersdorff, A., Hartmann, C., Hornberger, M., Seßler, K., Bannert, M., Kasneci, E., Kasneci, G., Zhai, X., & Nerdel, C. (2025). Taking the next step with generative artificial intelligence: The transformative role of multimodal large language models in science education. Learning and Individual Differences, 118, 102601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102601
Bewersdorff, A., Hornberger, M., Nerdel, C., & Schiff, D. S. (2025). AI advocates and cautious critics: How AI attitudes, AI interest, use of AI, and AI literacy build university students' AI self-efficacy. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 8, 100340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2024.100340
Hornberger, M. (2025). The measurement and promotion of AI literacy in higher education: Development and international validation of an AI literacy test. Technische Universität München. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss-20250721-1779057-0-4
Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., Schiff, D. S., & Nerdel, C. (2025). A multinational assessment of AI literacy among university students in Germany, the UK, and the US. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 4, 100132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100132
Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., Schiff, D. S., & Nerdel, C. (2025). Development and validation of a short AI literacy test (AILIT-S) for university students. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 5, 100176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100176

2023

Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., & Nerdel, C. (2023). What do university students know about Artificial Intelligence? Development and validation of an AI literacy test. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 5, 100165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100165

Selected presentations and lectures

2025

Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., & Nerdel, C. (28. Januar 2025). Validierung eines AI Literacy Tests zur Erfassung des Lernerfolgs von angehenden Lehrkräften [Symposiumsbeitrag]. 12. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Mannheim, Deutschland.
Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., Nerdel, C., & Schiff, D. S. (28. August 2025). How AI Attitudes, AI Interest, AI Use, and AI Literacy Build University Students’ AI Self-Efficacy [Vortrag]. 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI 2025), Graz, Austria.
Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., Schiff, D. S., & Nerdel, C. (26. August 2025). A multinational assessment of AI literacy among university students in Germany, the UK, and the US [Posterpräsentation]. 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI 2025), Graz, Austria.

2024

Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., & Nerdel, C. (18. - 20. März 2024). Was wissen Studierende über KI? Entwicklung und Validierung eines Tests zur Messung von AI Literacy [Vortrag]. 11. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung, Potsdam, Deutschland.

2023

Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., & Nerdel, C. (27. November 2023). Was wissen Studierende über KI? Entwicklung und Validierung eines Tests zur Messung von AI Literacy [Vortrag]. Konferenz „Adaptives Lernen und KI in der schulischen und beruflichen Bildung: Potenziale und Herausforderungen technologiegestützten Lehrens und Lernens“, Hamburg, Deutschland.
Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., & Nerdel, C. (28. Februar 2023). Was wissen Studierende über KI? Entwicklung und Validierung eines Tests zur Messung von AI Literacy [Posterpräsentation]. 10. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Essen, Deutschland.