February 2019

DR. ROLAND HAPP
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Department of Law, Management & Economics
Chair of Business and Economics Education
Prof. Dr. O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Tel.: +49(0)6131-39 22092
Fax: +49(0)6131-39 22095
E-mail: roland.happ@uni-mainz.de
Web: http://www.wipaed.uni-mainz.de/ls/975_ENG_HTML.php

Academic Career and Education
01/2019–03/2019

Research Stay at the Mori Arinori Institute for Higher Education andGlobal Mobility
Hitotsubashi University (Tokio, Japan)

since 04/2017

Substitute Lecturer in teaching for Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Förster
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainzsince 08/2015

Senior Research Assistant
Department of Law, Management & Economics, Faculty of Business andEconomics Education, Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz

11/2010–07/2015

Teaching and evaluating
Cooperating in third-party projects
Participating in academic self-administration
Publishing in (inter)national journals

Research Assistant
Department of Law, Management & Economics, Faculty of Business andEconomics Education, Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz
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11/2010–07/2015

Teaching and evaluating
Cooperating in third-party projects
Managing conferences

PhD studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Dissertation thesis: “The development of economic content knowledge
over the course of university studies – effects of students’ entry
preconditions on their knowledge acquisition”
Degree: PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) (magna cum laude)Dissertation advisors: Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia & Prof. Dr.
Klaus Beck

February 20192009–2010

Student Research Assistant

2005–2010

Faculty of Business and Economics Education, Prof. Dr. Olga ZlatkinTroitschanskaia, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Faculty of Organisation, Prof. Dr. Michael-Jörg Oesterle

Diploma of Business and Economics Education(Grade: 1.2)
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Main subjects: marketing, German, social science
Diploma thesis: “Construction of items for the assessment ofpedagogical content knowledge using the Construct Map” (Grade: 1.3)

Awards and Honors
10/2017

Phil Saunders Best Research Paper Award
Annual Meeting Council for Economic Education (CEE) 2017 in New
York (second place)

05/2017

Nomination for a prize for outstanding teaching
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

04/2013–04/2015

Membership at Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers
The Academy promotes up to 25 outstanding PhD students fromJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz

05/2012

Award for outstanding diploma thesis
Foundation for Business and Economics Education, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz

10/2010

Award for best graduate of the business and economics
education program
Department of Law, Management and Economics, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz

Scholarships
05/2014

Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Scholarship to participate in the workshop “Causal Analysis Using
International Data” of the American Educational Research Association(AERA) in Washington, DC (USA)Research Focus
Assessment of knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge in business and economics

Heterogeneity in learning groupsLongitudinal investigation designs

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Economic and financial literacy
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Research Projects
Project director – current projects
Study Success and Opportunities for Refugees in Higher Education – An Effectiveness
Analysis (SUCCESS); Project direction with Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia,sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (1/2017–12/2019)

Project director – completed projects
 Migration-specific influences on the financial literacy of young adults; sponsored byUniveristy Research Funding, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (6/2016–12/2016)
 Assessment of students’ level of economic knowledge at the end of upper secondary
education at general and vocational schools; project direction with Jun.-Prof. Dr. ManuelFörster, sponsored by Center for Research on Education and Higher Education, Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz (1/2016–11/2016)
 Adaptation of a test instrument for assessing the financial literacy of beginning university
students; project direction with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Manuel Förster, sponsored by Center for
Research on Education and Higher Education, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz(3/2015–12/2015)
 Incorporation of e-learning in lessons for student teachers; sponsored by Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz (10/2015–3/2016)
Involvement in projects as research assistantValidation of an entrance examination in the study domain of business and economics – Anational and international comparative study of universities and universities of appliedsciences (WiWiSET) (2016–2019)
Valid assessment of students‘ development of professional business and economic
competencies over the course of their studies – a quasi-experimental longitudinal study(WiWiKom II) (2015–2019)
Modeling and measuring competencies in business and economics among students andgraduates (WiWiKom I) (2011–2015)
Innovative Teach-Study Network in Academic Higher Education (ILLEV) (2008–2012)

Organization of International and National ConferencesInternational Conference of the WiWiKom research project “Modeling and Measuring
Competencies in Business and Economics“, Mainz, 01/12-02/12/2014
Conference “Bologna-Reform: Eine Zwischenbilanz der empirischen Bildungs- undHochschulforschung und Entwicklungsperspektiven” (Bologna reform: interim results ofempirical research in education and higher education and development perspectives),
Berlin, 02/03/2012.

Reviewer for Journals, Expert Associations and Institutions
since 2018

since 2017Global Educational Review (GER)

International Review of Economics Education (IREE)Zeitschrift für Empirische Pädagogik

3February 2019

since 2016

since 2012

Journal of Economic Education (JEE)

Association for Higher Education Research (German) (GfHf)

Association for Empirical Education Research (German) (GEBF)

Virtual University of Bavaria, Germany

Language and Computer Skills
Languages

ComputerGerman: first language

English: very good in speaking and writing

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

ILIAS (E-learning platform)

Knowledge of software programs and research methodologies
Statistical software

SPSS, Mplus, HLM, STATA, R, MAXQDA

Methodologies
05/2011

Workshop Mplus - Prof. Dr. Geiser

06/2011

Workshop Multilevel Analysis with STATA - Dr. Felix Wolter

11/2011

Workshop Missing Data with R - Dr. Alexander Robitzsch

06/2012Workshop Structural equation models with Mplus - Dr. Holger Brandt

10/2012Workshop Mplus - Prof. Dr. Hartig

05/2014

Workshop Multilevel Analysis with R - Dipl.-Psych. Tobias Koch

Memberships
since 2013

German Association for Higher Education Research (GfHf)

since 2011

German Educational Research Association (DGfE)Division 4: Educational Research and PlanningDivision 7: Vocational Education

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