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Methods of Educational Research
Fakultät Rehabilitationswissenschaften
Studenten im Sommer auf dem Campus Nord, rote Zahnräder im Hintergrund © Roland Baege​/​TU Dortmund
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Dr. Florian Krieger

  • WS 2024/2025: Interim Professor for Educational Psychology with a Focus on Special Educational Psychology at Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Germany
  • Since 2021: Akademischer Rat a.Z. ("Assistant Professor") at the department "Methods of Empirical Educational Research" (Prof. Dr. Jörg-Tobias Kuhn), TU Dortmund University, Germany.
  • 2018: Doctoral degree (Dr. phil) at Saarland University, Germany.
  • 2017 - 2021: Post doctoral researcher at the research group "Computer-Based Assessment"(Prof. Dr. Samuel Greiff), Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • 2016: Research visit at the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Host Prof. Dr. Xiaolan Fu).
  • 2014 - 2017: Research assistant at the research group "Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics" (Prof. Dr. Frank M. Spinath).
  • 2013 - 2017: Fellow of the international research training group "Adaptive Minds" (Chair: Prof. Dr. Axel Mecklinger), Selected for the fast-track program Master of Science Psychology.
  • 2012 - 2014: Studies of Psychology (M.Sc.), Saarland University, Germany.
  • 2009 - 2012: Studies of Psychology (B.Sc.), University of Saarland, Germany.
  • assessment of cognitive abilities
  • individual facilitation of cognitive abilities
  • intelligence
  • problem solving
  • working memory
  • personality
  • large-scale assessments
  • Quantitative Methods (since 2021)
    • Lecture (BA programme Special Education and Rehabilitation Education)
    • TU Dortmund
  • Evaluation in Technology, Education, Work & Health (since 2021)
    • Seminar (MA programme in Rehabilitation Science)
    • TU Dortmund
  • Experimental Design and Data Collection (2021)
    • Lecture (MA programme in Rehabilitation Sciences)
    • TU Dortmund
  • Enhanced Test Evaluation (2019-2022)
    • Seminar (MA programme in Psychology)
    • Université du Luxembourg
  • Experimental Internship (2019-2020)
    • Seminar (BA programme in Psychology)
    • Université du Luxembourg
  • Quantitative Methods (2010-2011)
    • Tutorship (BA programme in Psychology)
    • Saarland University
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Journal of Research of Personality
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Intelligence
  • Journal of Intelligence
  • Thinking Skills and Creativity

Peer-reviewed articles

Some of my articles were published under my "maiden name" Domnick (Shared first authorships are marked with “*“)

  •  Weber, D., Koch, M., Spinath, F. M., Krieger, F., & Becker, N. (2025). Log file times as indicators of structured figural matrix processing. Journal of Intelligence, 13(6), 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13060063
  • Han, A., Krieger, F., Kim, S., Nixon, N., & Greiff, S. (2024). Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta‑analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 112(104526), 104526.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104526
  • Stadler, M., Pickal, A. J., Brandl, L., & Krieger, F. (2024). VOTAT in action: Exploring epistemic activities in knowledgelean problem‑solving processes. Z. Psychol., 232(2), 109–119. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000559
  • Han, A., Krieger, F., Borgonovi, F., & Greiff, S. (2023). Behavioral patterns in collaborative problem solving: A latent profile analysis based on response times and actions in PISA 2015. Large Scale Assess. Educ., 11(1), 1–28. https: //doi.org/10.1186/s40536-023-00185-5
  • Nicolay, B., Krieger*, F., Kuhn, J.‑T., Graesser, A. C., Ifenthaler, D., Baker, R., & Greiff, S. (2023). Unsuccessful and successful complex problem solvers – a log file analysis of complex problem solving strategies across multiple tasks. Intelligence, 101(101793), 101793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101793
  • Kessler, F., Proske, A., Urbas, L., Goldwater, M., Krieger, F., Greiff, S., & Narciss, S. (2023). Promoting complex problem solving by introducing schema‑governed categories of key causal models. Behav. Sci. (Basel), 13(9), 701.
    https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090701
  • Weber, D., Krieger, F., Spinath, F. M., Greiff, S., Hissbach, J., & Becker, N. (2023). A log file analysis on the validity of partial solutions in figural matrices tests. Journal of Intelligence, 11(2), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11020037
  • Lamb, S., Krieger, F., & Kuhn, J.‑T. (2023). Delayed development of basic numerical skills in children with developmental dyscalculia. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1187785. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1187785
  • Krieger, F., Azevedo, R., Graesser, A. C., & Greiff, S. (2022). Introduction to the special issue: The role of metacognition in complex skills ‑ spotlights on problem solving, collaboration, and self‑regulated learning. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-022-09327-6
  • Nicolay, B., Krieger, F., Stadler, M., Vainikainen, M.‑P., Lindner, M. A., Hansen, A., & Greiff, S. (2022). Examining the development of metacognitive strategy knowledge and its link to strategy application in complex problem solving – a longitudinal analysis. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-022-09324-9
  • Gottschling, J., Krieger, F., & Greiff, S. (2022). The fight against infectious diseases: The essential role of Higher‑Order thinking and Problem‑Solving. Journal of Intelligence, 10(1).
  • Rojas, M., Nussbaum, M., Chiuminatto, P., Guerrero, O., Greiff, S., Krieger, F., & Van Der Westhuizen, L. (2021). Assessing collaborative problem‑solving skills among elementary school students. Computers & Education.
  • Krieger, F., Stadler, M., Bühner, M., Fischer, F., & Greiff, S. (2021). Assessing complex Problem‑Solving skills in under 20 minutes. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development.
  • Han, A., Krieger, F., & Greiff, S. (2021). Collaboration analytics need more comprehensive models and methods. Journal of Learning Analytics, 8(1), 13–29.
  • Nicolay, B., Krieger, F., Stadler, M., Gobert, J., & Greiff, S. (2021). Lost in transition – learning analytics on the transfer from knowledge acquisition to knowledge application in complex problem solving. Computers in Human Behavior, 115.
  • Schneider, B., Becker, N., Krieger, F., Spinath, F. M., & Sparfeldt, J. R. (2020). Teaching the underlying rules of figural matrices in a short video increases test scores. Intelligence, 82.
  • Many Babies Consortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the Infant‑Directed‑ Speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24–52.
  • Grass, J., Krieger, F., Paulus, P., Greiff, S., Strobel, A., & Strobel, A. (2019). Thinking in action: Need for cognition predicts Self‑Control together with action orientation. PLoS One, 14(8).
  • Krieger, F., Becker, N., Greiff, S., & Spinath, F. M. (2019). Big‑Five personality and political orientation: Results from four panel studies with representative german samples. Journal of Research in Personality, 80, 78– 83.
  • Krieger, F., Zimmer, H. D., Greiff, S., Spinath, F. M., & Becker, N. (2019). Why are difficult figural matrices hard to solve? The role of selective encoding and working memory capacity. Intelligence, 72.
  • Domnick, F., Zimmer, H., Becker, N., & Spinath, F. (2017). Is the correlation between storage capacity and matrix reasoning driven by the storage of partial solutions? A pilot study of an experimental approach. Journal of Intelligence, 5(2), 21.
  • Roth, B., Romeyke, S., Spinath, F. M., Domnick, F., Schäfer, S., & Becker, N. (2015). Intelligence and school grades: A meta‑analysis. Intelligence, 53, 118–137.

Book chapters and manuals

  • Nicolay, B., Krieger, F., & Greiff, S. (im Druck). I*nterdisciplinary frontiers: Computer‑based process data analysis in educational measurement.* In Process data analysis, international encyclopedia of education 4th edition. Elsevier.
  • Krieger, F., Becker, N., Greiff, S., & Spinath, F. M. (2022). Design a matrix – standard. Ein distraktorfreier Matrizen‑ Screening‑Test zur Erfassung der allgemeinen Intelligenz. Hogrefe.
  • Krieger, F., Fischbach, A., & Greiff, S. (2021). Kollaboratives problemlösen in luxemburg: Ergebnisse und implikationen aus PISA 2015. In LUCET/SCRIPT (Ed.), Nationaler bildungsbericht 2021. Université du Luxembourg.
  • Nicolay, B., Krieger, F., Salzig, M., & Greiff, S. (2021). Die Entwicklung eines Trainingsprogrammes für die komplexe Problemlösekompetenz bei Jugendlichen. In LUCET/SCRIPT (Ed.), Nationaler bildungsbericht 2021. Université du Luxembourg.