Research Data Center (FDZ) of the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB)

The Research Data Center at the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (FDZ at IQB) archives and documents data sets and accompanying materials from quantitatively oriented empirical educational research. The main task of the FDZ at the IQB is to provide data sets of German samples from national and international school achievement studies for education monitoring for secondary data analyses. In addition, the FDZ at IQB specializes in data sets from national studies with competence measurements in education.
Since 2011, the FDZ at the IQB has been part of the Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB), is one of the partners forming the Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung (VerbundFDB) and is certified with the CoreTrustSeal for trustworthy repositories. The FDZ at IQB is registered on re3data.org. The collection policy of the FDZ at IQB can be found here.