Stefan Kulakow

Postdoctoral Researcher

Franz-Mehring-Str. 47, 17487 Greifswald
Room: 3.02

Phone +49 3834 420 3774
stefan.kulakowuni-greifswaldde

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Research Interests

  • Heterogeneity and interindividual differences in school-based learning processes
  • Learning progress monitoring and evidence-based instructional decision-making, particularly curriculum-based measurement
  • Motivation, academic self-concept, and self-regulation in school-aged children and adolescents
  • Personality development during adolescence
  • Longitudinal methods and latent variable models

Research Overview

My research examines how children and adolescents develop academically and psychologically, and why these developmental trajectories differ so markedly between individuals. I am particularly interested in the heterogeneity of learning processes: how self-regulation, motivation, and self-related beliefs shape academic achievement, and how achievement in turn feeds back into children's psychosocial and cognitive functioning. Across projects, I treat development as a reciprocal interplay between the person and the environment, connecting longer-term change with the shorter-term processes that unfold in everyday learning, especially in the contexts of school, instruction, and social relationships. To study these questions, I draw on longitudinal and intensive longitudinal designs and on person-centered and latent-variable models.

 

Selected Publications

Kulakow, S., Mahlau, K., & Kocaj, A. (2024). The longitudinal relationship between internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems with academic achievement in elementary school. Learning and Instruction, 92(101909). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101909

Kulakow, S., Mahlau, K., & Blumenthal, S. (2024). Zur Validität des Münsteraner Screenings für die Erfassung von Prädiktoren des Schriftspracherwerbs. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie. https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000285

Kulakow, S., & Raufelder, D. (2024). Examining Different Motivational Patterns in Individualized Learning. Journal of School Psychology, 102, 101256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2023.101256

Short CV

  • since 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, GER
  • 2021–2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Special Education & Inclusion, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, GER
  • 2021: PhD (Educational Science), School Pedagogy, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, GER
  • 2018: 2nd Staatsexamen (Board Certification for Teachers), Ministry of Education and Childcare M-V, GER
  • 2014: 1st Staatsexamen (M.Ed. equivalent), Teacher Education Programme, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, GER

Teaching

  • Lecture: Psychometrics and Assessment (B.Sc.)
  • Lecture: Advanced Psychometrics and Assessment (M.Sc. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, M.Sc. Psychological Research)
  • Seminar: Advanced Test Construction (M.Sc. Psychological Research)  
  • Seminar: Personality Psychology in Educational Contexts (M.Sc. Psychological Research)