Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development

Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber



About the person

  • 09/1984 – 01/1989 Studied business education at the Humboldt University of Berlin; graduated with a degree in economics
  • 02/1989 – 07/1992 Doctoral studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, doctorate in business education paed., title: “Development of professional action competence through the use of activity-oriented tasks of complex characters in the initial vocational training of industrial clerks”
  • 05/1992 – 09/1995 Head of department at the Society for Social Business Consulting (gsub), Berlin
  • 10/1995 – 10/2006 Research assistant and research assistant in the Department of Business Education at the Institute for Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 11/2006 – 01/2010 Research assistant and from 08/2008 – 01/2010 Coordinator of the National Education Report at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt a. M./Berlin
  • 10/2008 Habilitation at the University of Hamburg, Venia legendi for general educational science with special emphasis on vocational and business education; Title: “Analyses of the effectiveness of vocational training”
  • since 02/2010 Professor for business education and personnel development at the Georg August University of Göttingen
  • 02/2010 Offer of a W3 professorship for educational science with a focus on vocational education at the University of Paderborn and a W3 professorship for vocational education at the Technical University of Dortmund (rejected)
  • 2013 Offer of a W3 professorship for business education at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg (rejected)
  • 2016 Offer of a W3 professorship for business education at the Humboldt University of Berlin (rejected)



Research areas

  • Competence diagnostics in commercial education and training
  • Digitalization in commercial training - implications for teaching and learning
  • Research into the promotion and measurement of professional skills for sustainability in commercial training
  • Professionalization of teaching and training staff
  • Monitoring in vocational education and training, in particular on social disparities at the transition to vocational education and training and in participation in continuing vocational education and training

    • Functions in committees and for magazines

    • Member of the authors' group of the National Education Reporting since 2010
    • Elected member of the Standing Scientific Commission (SWK) of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) since 2021
    • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education since 09/2022
    • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Youth Institute e.V. (DJI) in Munich since 2014
    • Member of the Founding Council of the Hamburg University of Cooperative Education (BHH) from 2020 to 2022
    • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training (ERVET) and the Journal for Labor Market Research; co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (ZfPäd)
    • Co-editor of the series Beruf-Arbeit-Innovation (wbv), Empirische Berufsbildungsforschung (Franz Steiner), Empirische Forschung in den gesellschaftlichen Fachdidaktiken (Springer VS) and Konzepte des Lehrens und Lernens (Peter Lang)
    • Reviews for various national and international journals, including Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (ZBW), Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft (ZfE), Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (ZfPäd), Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training (ERVET)



    Memberships

    • Senior Research Fellow at the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) e.V. at the University of Göttingen since 2016
    • German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Section for Vocational and Business Education (BWP), board member and spokesperson for the Section for Vocational and Business Education from 2013 to 2017
    • Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF), board member from 2014 to 2018



    Selected lectures

      2024
    • Busse, Robin & Seeber, Susan (2024). Vocational Teachers’ View on Challenges of Democracy Education at Vocational Schools. EDULEARN, 01.-03.07.2024, Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
    • Warwas, Julia; Vorpahl, Wiebke, Weyland, Ulrike; Wilzcek, Larissa; Krebs, Philine; Seeber, Susan & Wittmann Eveline (2024). Promoting stress-coping competence among trainees in nursing professions: How successful is a stress-coping training program? EDULEARN, 01.-03.07.2024, Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
    • Seeber, Susan & Wuttke, Eveline (2024). Training teachers and trainers to design technology-based and probem-oriented examination tasks. 18th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 04.-06.03. 2024, Valencia (Spain).

      • 2023
    • Meiners, Hanna; Krebs, Philine; Seeber, Susan & Wuttke, Eveline (2024). The role of emotions when dealing with complex digital tasks in vocational education and training. 16th annual International Conf-erence of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), 13th - 15th of November, 2023, Seville (Spain).
    • Warwas, Julia; Krebs, Philine; Seeber, Susan; Vorpahl, Wiebke; Weyland, Ulrike; Wittmann, Eveline; Wil¬czek, Larissa, Striković, Aldin & Hill, Svenja (2023). Wie gut können angehende Pflegefachkräfte berufstypi¬sche Stressoren bewältigen? [How effectively can prospective nurses cope with stressors typical of the pro¬fession?] Jahrestagung der Sektion für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, 06. bis 08.09.2023, Flensburg.
    • Meiners, Hanna; Seeber, Susan & Wuttke, Eveline (2023). Validierung kaufmännischer digitaler Aufgaben zur Messung von Problemlösekompetenz – Ergebnisse einer Laut-Denken-Studie. [Validating commercial digital tasks to measure problem-solving skills - results of a think-aloud study.] Jahrestagung der Sektion für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, 06. bis 08.09.2023, Flensburg.
    • Seeber, Susan; Meiners, Hanna & Wuttke, Eveline (2023). Development and evaluation of a training for vocational teachers and trainers to design problem-oriented technology-based examination tasks. EDULEARN, 03.-05.07.2023, Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
    • Warwas, Julia, Krebs, Philine, Seeber, Susan, Weyland, Ulrike, Wilcek, Larissa, Wittmann, Eveline, Striković, Aldin & Hill, Svenja (2023). On the course of development of stress coping competence among prospective nurses and its supporting factors – What role do training conditions play? EDULEARN, 03.-05.07.2023, Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
    • Seeber, Susan (2023). Beruflicher Übergangssektor. Herausforderungen der Integration junger Menschen in Ausbildung. [Vocational transition sector. Challenges of integrating young people into training.] Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), 29.06.2023, Berlin.
    • Seeber, Susan (2023). Zentrale Befunde aus dem Projekt Erweiterte Kompetenzmessung in Gesundheits¬berufen (EKGe) und Perspektiven. [Key findings from the Enhanced Competency Measurement in Health Care Professions (EKGe) project and perspectives.] Abschlusstagung EKGe, 30.03.2023, Münster.
    • Seeber, Susan (2023). Zur Fachkräftesituation in nichtärztlichen Gesundheitsberufen. [On the skilled labor situation in non-physician health care professions.] Hochschultage für Berufliche Bildung, 20. bis 22.03.2023, Bamberg.

      • 2022
    • Seeber, Susan & Richter, Maria (2022). Nationaler Bildungsbericht 2020. Befunde und Herausforderungen zur beruflichen Ausbildung. Fachtagung zum Nationalen Bildungsbericht, 26.10.2022, Berlin.
    • Euler, Dieter & Seeber, Susan (2022). Ausbildungsgarantie – ein Instrument zur Fachkräftesicherung und gesellschaftlichen Integration junger Menschen. Fachtagung „Soziale Integration und Fachkräftesicherung – Wie garantieren wir gute berufliche Bildung für alle?“ der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 21.10.2022. Berlin.
    • Seeber, Susan (2022). Mindeststandards im Übergangssektor. Workshop zum Thema „Mindeststandards (k)ein Thema für die berufliche Bildung?“ Bildungspolitisches Forum 2022 des Leibniz Forschungsnetzwerks LERN, 27.09.2022, Berlin.
    • Busse, Robin, Krebs, Philine, Seeber, Susan & Seifried, Jürgen (2022). Determinants of trainees’ intended political participation. EARLI SIG13 Moral and democratic education, Conference 2022 from June 14 to 17, Kristiansand/Norway.
    • Wuttke, E., Seeber, S., Turhan, L., & Meiners, H. (2022). Do tasks in final vocational examinations measure what they are supposed to measure? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) from April 21 to 26, 2022, San Diego/USA.
    • Seeber, S., & Wuttke, E. (2022). Individual and institutional Influences on Participation in Non-formal and Informal Continuous Vocational Education and Training. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) from April 21 to 26, 2022, San Diego/USA.
    • Strikovic, A., Krebs, P., Wittmann, E., & Seeber, S. (2022). Interprofessional Collaboration Competency Instrument for Nursing (ICCI-N): A Validation Study of German Student Nurses. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) from April 21 to 26, 2022, San Diego/USA.

    Complete list of lectures


    Selected writings

      2024
    • Seeber, Susan; Ziegler, Birgit, Weyland, Ulrike (im Druck). Digitalisierung in der beruflichen Ausbildung: Implikationen für Lehr-Lern- und Diagnostikprozesse: Editorial. [Digitization in vocational training: Implications for Teaching-Learning and Diagnostic Processes. Editorial.] Zeitschrift für Pädagogik.
    • Wittmann, Eveline; Weyland, Ulrike; Strikovic, Aladin; Krebs, Philine; Poley, Monja, Hill, Svenja; Wilczek, Larissa; Krebs, Philine; Seeber, Susan; Warwas, Julia & Vorpahl, Wiebke (im Druck). Interprofessionelle Kooperationskompetenz von Pflegeauszubildenden im Kontext der digitalen Transformation. [Interprofessional collaboration skills of nursing trainees in the context of digital transformation] Zeitschrift für Pädagogik.

      • 2023
    • Warwas, Julia; Vorpahl, Wiebke; Seeber, Susan; Krebs Philine; Weyland, Ulrike; Wittmann, Eveline; Wilczek, Larissa & Strikovic, Aldin (2023). Developing and validating an online situational judgment test on the stress coping competence of nursing apprentices. Empirical Res Voc Ed Train 15, 5 (2023), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40461-023-00145-x
    • Euler, Dieter & Seeber, Susan (2023). Ausbildungsgarantie Ein Instrument zur Fachkräftesicherung und gesellschaftlichen Integration junger Menschen. [Training guarantee: An instrument for main¬taining a skilled workforce and for social integration of young people.] FES diskurs. 76 Seiten Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-p-b/19972-20230209.pdf
    • Euler, Dieter & Seeber, Susan (2023). Ausbildungsgarantie Ein Instrument zur Fachkräftesicherung und gesellschaftlichen Integration junger Menschen. [Training guarantee: An instrument for main¬taining a skilled workforce and for social integration of young people.] FES impuls. Kurzfassung des FES diskurs (6 Seiten). Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-p-b/19971.pdf.

      • 2022
    • Michaelis, Christian; Busse, Robin; Seeber, Susan & Eckelt, Marcus (2022). Nachschulische Bildungsverläufe in Deutschland. Schulentlassene zwischen institutionalisierten Idealwegen und schwierigen Umwegen. [Educational pathways after school in Germany. School Leavers between Institutionalized Optimal Paths and Difficult Detours.] Bielefeld: wbv Media. Seiten: 125 S.
    • Seeber, Susan & Seifried, Jürgen (2022). Was kann die berufliche Bildung zur Entwicklung demokratischer Kompetenzen beitragen? [How can vocational education and training contribute to the development of democratic competencies?] bwp@ Profil 7. Online unter: https://www.bwpat.de/profil7_minnameier/seeber_seifried_profil7.pdf
    • Autor:innengruppe Bildungsberichterstattung: Maaz, Kai; Artelt, Cordula; Brugger, Pia; Buchholz, Sandra; Kühne, Stefan; Leerhoff, Holger; Rauschenbach, Thomas; Schrader, Josef & Seeber, Susan (2022). Bildung in Deutschland 2022. Ein indikatorengestützter Bericht mit einer Analyse zum Bildungspersonal. [National Report on Education, Germany 2022.] Bielefeld: wbv. Seiten: 391.
    • Wittmann, Eveline; Weyland, Ulrike; Seeber, Susan; Warwas, Julia; Strikovic, Aladin; Krebs, Philine; Poley, Monja & Wilczek, Larissa (2022). Test sensitivity in assessing competencies in nursing education. Empirical Res Voc Ed Train 14, 3 (2022), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40461-022-00131-9
    • Wuttke, Eveline, Seeber, Susan, Geiser, Carolin & Turhan, Lütfiye (2022). Zur Problemhaltigkeit von Aufgaben in kaufmännischen Abschluss- und Zwischenprüfungen – Ergebnisse aus Aufgaben¬analysen. [On the problem orientation of tasks in commercial final and intermediate examinations - results from task analyses.] Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik 118, 2022/1, 25–52. DOI 10.25162/zbw-2022-0002
    • Richter, Maria & Seeber, Susan (2022). Schule und dann? Übergänge in die berufliche Ausbildung – Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Herausforderungen. [School, and after? Transitions to vocational training - opportunities, limits and challenges] engagement 2022, 40:2, 143-153. doi/10.13109/egmt.2022.40.2.143
    • Richter, Maria; Baethge-Kinsky, Volker; Kerst, Christian & Seeber, Susan (2022). Zum Wandel von Ausbildung und Studium in nicht-ärztlichen Gesundheitsberufen: Eine berufsgruppenspezifische Analyse. [On the transformation of education and training in nonphysician health professions: An occupational group-specific analysis.] Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, Beiheft 33, 117-150
    • Wittmann, Eveline, Weyland, Ulrike, Warwas, Julia, Seeber, Susan, Schumann, Matthias (2022). Operationalisierung und Förderung von Bewältigungs- und Kooperationskompetenzen in der Pflegeausbildung – Ansätze im Forschungsprojekt EKGe. [Operationalization and promotion of coping and cooperation skills in nursing education - approaches in the EKGe research project.] Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik. Beiheft 33, 49-68.

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