Career path:
| 10 / 2024 - today | Research assistant in the research project STARK-MIT-DIBI: "Strengthening girls with a migration background through digital education" (University of Mannheim, AG Professions and School Research / RPTU in Landau, AB Empirical School Research) |
| 09/2023 - 09/2024 | Research assistant in the research project cPENDL: "Campus-Community-Partnerschaften zum Einsatz digitaler Lernverlaufsdiagnostik" (University of Mannheim, AG Professions- und Schulforschung) |
| 11/2018 - 05/2023 | Research assistant in the research project LEITER: "Teacher-parent interaction: With school participation to the success of young people with and without a migration background" (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Psychology) |
Educational pathway:
| 2020 - 2024 | Doctorate in Developmental Psychology (Dr. phil.), Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Psychology Working title: "Towards a resolution of ethnic comparative research with minority and majority adolescents" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter F. Titzmann) |
| 2016 - 2018 | M.Sc. Health and Clinical Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| 2013 - 2016 | B.Sc. Psychology and Educational Science, University of Bucharest, Romania |
Journal articles:
Benbow, A. E. F., Aumann, L., Paizan, M. A., & Titzmann, P. F. (2021). Everybody needs somebody: Specificity and commonality in perceived social support trajectories of immigrant and non-immigrant youth. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021(176), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20393
Paizan, M. A., Benbow, A. E. F., Aumann, L., & Titzmann, P. F. (2022). Home-Learning during COVID-19: The Psychological Adjustment of Minority and Majority Adolescents. School Psychology,37(1), 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000489
Titzmann, P. F., Paizan, M. A., Aumann, L. (2023). Socialization. In E. Neblett & W. Tropp-Gordon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence,2nd Ed. https://doi. org/10.1016/b978-0-323-96023-6.00038-5
Paizan, M. A., Benbow, A. E. F., & Titzmann, P. F. (2024). Relationship Quality in Student-Teacher-Dyads: Comparing Student and Teacher Determinants in Multicultural Classrooms. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 101, 102006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102006
Paizan, M. A. (2024). Towards a Resolution of Ethnic Comparative Research with Minority and Majority Adolescents. Hanover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Diss., 138 p., https://doi.org/10.15488/16021
Titzmann, P. F. & Paizan, M. A. (2024). On the relationship quality of teachers and students. In Research Magazine of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Issue ¾ - Future Education. ISSN 1616-4075
Paizan, M. A., Aumann, L. & Titzmann, P. F. (2026). Home-to-School Contact and Its Impact on Students' School Belonging: A Triadic, Mixed-Methods Approach. Journal of Community Psychology, 54(1), e70066. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.70066
Presentations & conference papers:
Scientific Poster Presentation "Students' need to belong: the role of teacher beliefs, culturally responsive teaching and teacher-student-perceptions" at the 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Paizan, Madalina, 06/2022
Symposium presentation "Relationship Quality in Teacher-Student-Dyads: Comparing Student and Teacher Determinants in Multicultural Classrooms" at the Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education Conference (CDME) in Potsdam, Germany, Paizan, Madalina, 08/2021
PhD presentation at the research colloquium of the Institute of Psychology: "How to best support minority and majority adolescents in multicultural schools", Paizan, Madalina, 12/2021
Research Talk ("Relationship Quality in Multicultural Classrooms: Comparing Student and Teacher Determinants") at the 52nd DGPs Congress in Hildesheim, Germany, Paizan, Madalina, 09/2022
PhD presentation at the research colloquium of the Institute of Psychology: "The Minority-Majority Dualist Model - Assets and Limitations", Paizan, Madalina,12/2022
Dissertation presentation "Towards a resolution of ethnic comparative research with minority and majority adolescents" at the Cultural Diversity, Migration and Education Conference (CDME) in Halle, Germany, Paizan, Madalina, 08/2023
Symposium "Teaching and Learning in Heterogeneous Classrooms", contribution: "Relationship Quality in Teacher-Student-Dyads: Comparing Student and Teacher Determinants in Multicultural Classrooms" at the GEBF conference in Potsdam, Germany, Paizan, Madalina; Benbow, Alison; Titzmann, Peter, 03/2024
Symposium "Lesekompetenz und -förderung im schulischen Kontext", contribution "Individuelle Leseförderung durch Lehramtsstudierende auf der Basis von Lernverlaufsdiagnostik" at the 53rd DGPs-Congress in Vienna, Austria, Bez, Sarah; Paizan, Madalina; Karst, Karina; Samuel, Merk, 09/2024
Symposium "Diagnosegeleitete Förderung in der und für die Schulpraxis", contribution "Individuelle Leseförderung durch Lehramtsstudierende auf der Basis von Lernverlaufsdiagnostik" at the GEBF conference in Mannheim, Germany, Bez, Sarah; Paizan, Madalina; Karst, Karina; Samuel, Merk, 01/2025
Symposium "Novel Approaches to Studying Diversity: Expanding Perspectives Across Contexts", individual contribution: "Can I converse with you? School diversity effects on students and teachers in German schools, 22nd European Developmental Psychology Conference, Lithuania, 08/2025
Individual contribution "Supporting struggling readers through an assessment-based reading intervention of pre-service teachers", EARLI Conference, Austria, Bez, Sarah; Paizan, Madalina; Karst, Karina; Samuel, Merk, 08/2025
Individual contribution "Diagnosegeleitete Leseförderung durch Lehramtsstudierende in einem Service-Learning-Projekt", AEPF-Tagung (Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE)), Duisburg-Essen, Bez, Sarah; Paizan, Madalina; Karst, Karina; Samuel, Merk, 09/2025
Individual contribution "Support of pupils with reading support needs by trained student teachers",Annual Conference of the DGfE Commission on Primary School Research and Primary Education, Feldkirch, Bez, Sarah; Paizan, Madalina; Karst, Karina; Samuel, Merk, 09/2025