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The Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen (IQB) is a scientific institution of the federal states in the Federal Republic of Germany, located at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Founded in 2004 in response to unsatisfactory results in international school performance studies, the IQB is tasked with improving the quality and efficiency of the German education system.
The main mission of the IQB is to contribute to the improvement of school education in Germany, promote alignment with international performance levels, and support the efforts of the states for higher quality in teaching and schools. The IQB aims to promote cross-state exchange on measures of quality development and quality assurance and to ensure comparability and permeability in the German education system[1].
The IQB is engaged in various initiatives to sustainably improve educational quality:
The IQB works interdisciplinary with teachers, researchers from the fields of subject didactics, psychology, educational sciences, and sociology to ensure comprehensive and scientifically based support for the education system.