Daria K. Benden

PostDoc

University of Bonn

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Bonn Center for Teacher Education (BZL) in the research group of Prof. Dr. Fani Lauermann. My research interests include students’ educational and occupational choices in STEM and the development of students’ achievement motivation in STEM. I am also interested in how we can support students at the beginning of their postsecondary education, for example, with digital self-testing and self-reflection tools, as well as what types of digital competencies students and instructors need in their everday work and how we can assess these competencies.

Interests

Student motivation and achievement
Educational and occupational choices
Digital competencies and online self-assessment tools in higher education contexts
Teachers’ professional competencies (e.g., teacher motivation, responsibility)

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology (summa cum laude), 2022
TU Dortmund University, Germany
M.Ed. in Mathematics and Physics Teacher Education, 2016
University of Bonn, Germany
B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics Teacher Education, 2014
University of Bonn, Germany

Professional Positions and Affiliations

Postdoctoral Fellow

College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER)

April 2024 – Present

Research Scholar

University of Bonn

April 2023 – Present Bonn, Germany

Research Scholar

TU Dortmund University

April 2019 – March 2023 Dortmund, Germany

Research Scholar

University of Bonn

May 2017 – March 2019 Bonn, Germany

Selected Publications

Fani Lauermann, Daria K. Benden, Jeffrey M. DeVries, Johanna Heitzer (2023). Students’ use of (online) self-assessments in math: Interindividual differences in students’ test engagement and test performance in math-intensive study programs. In N. McElvany, A. Grecu, R. Lorenz, M. Becker, C. Dignath, H. Gaspard, & F. Lauermann: Jahrbuch der Schulentwicklung – Band 23: 50 Jahre Schulentwicklung – Leitthemen der empirischen Bildungsforschung (S. 97-127), Beltz Juventa.

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Daria K. Benden, Fani Lauermann (2023). Searching for short-term motivational alignment and spillover effects: A random intercept cross-lagged analysis of students’ expectancies and task values in math-intensive study programs. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 73.

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Daria K. Benden, Fani Lauermann (2023). Relative importance of students’ expectancy–value beliefs as predictors of academic success in gateway math courses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1521(1).

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Patrick N. Beymer, Daria K. Benden, Maien S. M. Sachisthal (2022). Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis. Learning and Individual Differences, 100.

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Daria K. Benden, Fani Lauermann (2022). Students’ motivational trajectories and academic success in math-intensive study programs: Why short-term motivational assessments matter. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(5).

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