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Prof. Dr. Viola Deutscher

Prof. Dr. Viola Deutscher

University of Mannheim
Chair of Economic and Business Education – Competency Development and Training Quality
L 4, 1
2nd Floor – Room 203
68161 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
Thu, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Viola Deutscher is Professor of Economic and Business Education at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, where she holds the Chair of Economic and Business Education – Competence Development and Quality of Education. She studied economics at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Bachelor) and business education at the University of Paderborn (Master) and received her doctorate on questions of occupational competence diagnostics at the University of Paderborn with a research stay at the Learning Sciences Research Institute in Chicago. Afterwards, she worked as a research associate at the German Institute for Adult Education. Since 2016, she has been teaching and researching at the University of Mannheim on the following research topics:

  • Training quality
  • Training dropout
  • Career choice and vocational identity development
  • Digital learning in vocational education
  • Competence development and assessment
  • University teaching and teacher education

Latest Publications

Deutscher, V. & Braunstein, A. (accepted). Measuring the Quality of Workplace Learning Environments – A Meta-Synthesis of Employee QuestionnairesJournal of Workplace Learning. 35(9), 134–161.

Publications