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Nike Scheitz received the JURE Award “Paper in a Symposium” at the EARLI SIG 6 & 7 Conference 2026 in Zurich for her contribution “Interleaved Practice of Subtraction Strategies: A Field Study in Third-Grade Classrooms.” Congratulations on this well-deserved award!

Great news: The Research Unit "Lasting Learning" (FOR 5254) has been awarded a second four-year funding period by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The €4.8 million grant will support the Research Unit's research on lasting learning through 2030.

Dr. Heike Russ, member of the DFG Research Unit “Lasting Learning” (FOR 5254), received two dissertation awards for her doctoral research.

Dr. Marina Klimovich and Dr. Lea Nemeth, who are working on the research projects "Interleaved Learning with Verbal Materials" and "Learning Subtraction Strategies with Interleaved Practice", have joined the coordination project.

Prof. Dr. Veit Kubik has taken up a professorship in the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Berlin. Consequently, he is leaving the coordination project. We warmly congratulate Veit on his new position, thank him for his valuable contributions to the project, and wish him all the best for his future work.

Dr. Anita Körner joins the project "The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?", led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Rummer (University of Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Judith Schweppe (University of Erfurt).

Dr. Sarah Glim, a member of the research group "The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?", has recently left the project, led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Rummer and Prof. Dr. Judith Schweppe. We thank Sarah for all her contributions and wish her all the best for her future work.

Dr. Heike Russ, member of the DFG Research Unit “Lasting Learning” (FOR 5254), received the GEBF Early Career Publication Award 2026 for her publication “Combining Non-Interactive Teaching and Drawing Fosters Conceptual Knowledge but not Monitoring Accuracy from Guided Inquiry in Science Learning” in the Journal of Educational Psychology.

Dr. Sarah Glim joins the project "The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?", led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Rummer (University of Kassel, Department of General Psychology) and Prof. Dr. Judith Schweppe (University of Passau, Department of Psychology with an Emphasis on Learning and Instruction with Digital Media).

The 5th meeting of the DFG Research Unit 'Lasting Learning: Cognitive Mechanisms and Instructional Implementation' (FOR 5254) was held at the Department of Psychology IV at the University of Würzburg.

Congratulations to Dwayne Lieck: At the SIG 6&7 of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) he won the Junior Researcher Award for 'no-or-not-so-perfect data presentation'. Very well done!

Johanna Bohm, a PhD student in the research group "Lasting Learning in Physics by Constructive Retrieval", has recently left the project, led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl and Prof. Dr. Claudia von Aufschnaiter. We thank Johanna for all her contributions and wish her all the best for her future work.

We would like to thank Luise Ende, who contributed to the project as a PhD student in the research group "The testing effect and the complexity of the learning material: The adequacy of the knowledge base as a moderator?" and who has now left the project. We wish her all the best for her future work.

PhD student Anne Ludwig joins the project "Promoting lasting learning by combining spacing with worked examples", led by Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ebersbach (University of Kassel, Department of Developmental Psychology).

We are pleased to welcome Dwayne Lieck as a new PhD student. He joins the project "Lasting Learning in Physics by Constructive Retrieval" led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Renkl.