Thomas Zimmermann - Forschungsinformationssystem | Universität Kassel

Dipl. Pol. Thomas Zimmermann

Research Interest

Educational inequality, quantitative research methods.

Academic background

Since 08/2013 PhD-Candidate at the Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Kassel, Germany. Dissertation: Formation, development and realization of educational aspirations and expectations of disadvantaged children and youth in Germany.

06/2007 Diploma in Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (German degree: 1.3; US-GPA: 3.81). Diploma thesis: The importance of institutional transition points and language teaching programs for children and young persons with an immigration background in Germany and Sweden (German degree: 1.3) (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Frank Nonnenmacher and Prof. Dr. Gert Krell).

04/2007 First State Examination in Teaching German and Social Studies for Secondary and Upper Secondary Schools, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (German degree: 1.58; US-GPA: 3.81).

Awards

03/2015

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Travel Award for the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA

Memberships and non-academic activities

nternational Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28), Research Committee on Logic and Methodology (RC33) and “Research Committee on Rational Choice (RC45).
Member

Projects as Co-Investigator

06/2011 - 06/2012	Impacts of Privatization of Higher Education on the Training of Teachers in Cambodia
04/2010 - 04/2015	Staying in School: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of Transition, Drop-outs, and Retention – Primary to Upper Secondary School in Cambodia
06/2009 - 07/2009	Strategic Planning Research for Room to Read
10/2008 - 01/2009	UNESCO Teacher Training Review Project: Strengthening Teacher Training to Achieve Education for All

Publications

2015	Zimmermann, T., Williams, J., 2015. Does Students’ Gender Matter? Parents’ Educational Expectations and Their Determinants and Consequences in Explaining Students’ Dropout in an Area in Cambodia., in: Y. Kitamura, D.B.E.J. (Hrsg.), The political economy of schooling in Cambodia: Issues of quality and equity. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, S. 123–142.
2015	Edwards Jr, D.B., Zimmermann, T., Chhinn, S., Williams, J.B., Kitamura, Y., 2015. The Complexity of Continuation: A Narrative Perspective on Student Transition and Dropout from Primary to Lower Secondary School in Cambodia, in: Y. Kitamura, D.B.E.J. (Hrsg.), The political economy of schooling in Cambodia: Issues of quality and equity. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, S. 143–166.
2015	Williams, J., Kitamura, Y., Ogisu, T., Zimmermann, T., 2015. Who Wants to Teach in Cambodia?, in: Y. Kitamura, D.B.E.J. (Hrsg.), The political economy of schooling in Cambodia: Issues of quality and equity. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, S. 187–204.
2014	Edwards Jr, D.B., Zimmermann, T., Chhinn, S., Williams, J., Kitamura, Y., 2014. Student retention and transition from primary to lower secondary school in Cambodia: Narrative insights into complex systems. Prospects. Quarterly Review of Comparative Education. 44, 367–380.
2012	Zimmermann, T., Williams, J., Kitamura, Y., 2012. Teacher education and privatization in Cambodia.
2009	Zimmermann, T., Chhinh, S., Bunlay, N., 2009. Strategic Planning Research: Understanding the Operational Environment.
2009	Zimmermann, T., Chhinh, S., Hormann, S., Hornig, P.S., Horn, S., Hornbostel, S., Rath, C., 2009. Teacher Training Review Project: Strengthening Teacher Training to Achieve Education for All.

Lectures

09/2016	Assessing the causal relationship between students’ aspirations and school success – a comparison of analytical procedures ISA RC33, Leicester, Great Britain
08/2016	Inequality of Educational Aspirations: Social influence or rational choice? ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Bern, Switzerland
03/2015	Does Students’ Gender Matter? Parents’ Educational Expectations and Their Determinants and Consequences in Explaining Students’ Dropout in an Area in Cambodia Annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Washington D.C., United States of America
03/2014	Equity and Quality in Educational Decision-making: Results of a longitudinal study of 6th grade Cambodian students Annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
03/2013	Schooling or working? An empirical Test of the Breen and Goldthorpe Model in a provincial area of Cambodia Annual meeting of the 57th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, United States of America
03/2013	Student transition from primary to lower secondary school in Cambodia: Findings and implications from pupil and parent perspectives Annual meeting of the 57th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, New Orleans, United States of America
04/2012	Gender and educational and career aspirations: First results of a longitudinal study of 6th grade Cambodian students Annual meeting of the 56th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Other Research Activities

2015	Kassel Summer School in Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods Workshop or training
2013	Kassel Summer School in Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences Workshop or training