Heike Russ is a research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Educational Science, Department of School Pedagogy, at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She works in the department headed by Prof. Dr Thorsten Bohl, Chair of ‘Educational Science with a Focus on School Pedagogy’.

In her habilitation thesis, Heike Russ examines teaching quality, adaptivity and the management of heterogeneity within the school system. In the field of teaching and learning research, she focuses on generative learning and retrieval practice. Her research is primarily conducted within the context of authentic teaching and has a particular focus on quantitative research methods, which she supplements with qualitative analyses to enable an in-depth examination of learning processes. The aim of her work is to contribute to greater equality of opportunity and participation in the education system through evidence-based approaches. 

Since October 2024, she has represented mid-career academics in school pedagogy on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Educational Science.

Heike Russ is a member of the DFG Research Group “Lasting Learning: Cognitive Mechanisms and Effective Instructional Implementation’ (FOR 5254), the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE), the Tübingen Centre for Digital Education (TüCeDE), and an associate member of the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network.

• Paper: “Combining Non-Interactive Teaching and Drawing Fosters Conceptual Knowledge but not Monitoring Accuracy from Guided Inquiry in Science Learning”, DOI: 10.1037/edu0000971
• Heike Russ on ORCID