Jana Groß Ophoff studied Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (DE). Afterwards, she worked as PhD research assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Koblenz-Landau (DE) in the project Vergleichsarbeiten in der Grundschule [Mandatory student performance test in German primary education] (VERA: Prof. Dr. I. Hosenfeld, Prof. Dr. A. Helmke). After completing her PhD (Dr. phil.), she focussed her research on the assessment of educational researchliteracy of students in the field of educational sciences within the project Learning the Science of Education (LeScEd, PI: Prof. Dr. M. Wirtz, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Education in Freiburg (DE). Between April 2019 and January 2021 she worked as post-doc researcher at the chair “Research on teachers and teacher education with special emphasis on subject-matter teaching and learning” (Prof. Dr. Colin Cramer) at the University of Tübingen (DE). There, she received the Venia Legendi for Educational Science (German: Erziehungswissenschaft). As part of Colin Cramer’s research group, she was involved in a survey of German teachers and school leaders (Projekt LineS: 2019–2020). Since February 2021, she is professor of Educational Sciences (German: Bildungswissenschaften) at the University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg (AT).
