Testing and Examining

Testing and Examining Team

We are a team of psychologists and experts in higher education didactics and conduct interdisciplinary work on the design of the university examination culture as well as on the development of advisory services for teachers and (prospective) students.

With our psychological expertise, we support the development of orientation and advisory services for prospective and current students in addition to test preparation for application procedures and aptitude assessments. Through our supportive diagnostic approach, we focus on guided self-reflection and the resulting improvement in the individual’s readiness to select a course of study and their ability to study successfully.

By maintaining psychological and diagnostic quality criteria, especially for standardised testing procedures, we cultivate a scientific approach to central concepts of test psychology such as fairness, validity, reliability and objectivity.

We regard university testing as a didactic tool that is intended to provide the greatest possible benefit to the students themselves. Thus, our examination didactics are aimed at providing the best possible support for student learning: central to our approach are the matching of performance assessments with learning objectives and activities, a well thought-out use of examination formats, and fair and differentiated assessment.

Wir sind ein Team von Psycholog*innen und Hochschuldidaktiker*innen und arbeiten interdisziplinär an der Gestaltung der universitären Prüfungskultur sowie an der Entwicklung von Beratungsangeboten für Lehrende und (angehende) Studierende.

Areas of responsibility include:

Development of fair application procedures and aptitude assessments
Development of interdisciplinary and subject-specific online self-assessments for prospective students
Advice and qualification for teachers and student employees in line with examination didactics
Providing information materials for students on exam didactics and learning psychology
Statistical analysis and providing evidence-based advice to students and university decision-makers

Reinhard Schott (Interim. Management)
Reinhard Schott has been a staff member at the CTL since 2010. He has many years of teaching experience at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Vienna, at FH Campus Wien and currently at the Vienna-Wiener Neustadt Ferdinand Porsche Distance University of Applied Sciences. He completed his diploma studies in Psychology in Graz and Vienna.

Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Multiple-choice exams, quality of exams, online self-assessments, entrance exam and aptitude test procedures.

E-Mail reinhard.schott@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-120 57

Mag. Larissa Bartok, BSc
Larissa Bartok joined the CTL in April 2020. Between 2018 and 2020, in addition to her PhD studies, she worked as a freelance statistician and pursued various teaching assignments on research methods, mathematics and statistics at Modul University Vienna, the Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication (FHWien der WKW) and the University of Vienna. While still studying for her diploma in Psychology, which she completed in 2016, and her bachelor’s degree in Statistics, which she completed in 2017, she worked as a psychometrician at the Federal Institute of Educational Research, Innovation & Development of the Austrian School Sector (BIFIE), which was later incorporated into the Ministry of Education (BMB/BMBWF), between 2015 and 2018. Larissa Bartok’s research interests specifically include educational research, development of exams, and large-scale assessments. She developed her keen interest in the programming language R during her studies as a student assistant and tutor at the Faculty of Psychology and the Institute of Statistics and Operations Research.

Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Statistical analysis, entrance exam and aptitude test procedures, academic analytics

E-Mail: larissa.bartok@univie.ac.at

Hanna Frankl, MSc
Hanna Frankl has worked at the CTL since 2022. She completed a Master's degree in Psychology at the University of Vienna, specialising in Clinical and Health Psychology. During her studies, she participated in research projects in developmental and positive psychology, subsequently working in the health and social sector for some time. She currently holds a teaching position at the University of Vienna and is training to become a psychotherapist.

Areas of responsibility at CTL: Health management/mental health, online self-assessments, aptitude and admission procedures

E-Mail: hanna.frankl@univie.ac.at

Mag. Robin Gleeson
Robin Gleeson joined the team in 2012 as a psychometrician. Until 2016, he also supervised the introduction of the new matriculation examination at the Federal Institute of Educational Research, Innovation & Development of the Austrian School Sector (BIFIE), having completed his diploma studies in Psychology at the University of Vienna in 2012. During his studies he worked for, among other things, the Testing and Counselling Centre and as head of the Testing Centre in the psychological assessment work area.

Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Online self-assessments, entrance exam and aptitude test procedures, academic analytics.

E-Mail: robin.gleeson@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-12020

Isabelle Krol BSc BSc MSc
Isabelle Krol joined the CTL in 2018. She was awarded her master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Vienna, where she also studied Nutritional Sciences. She gained experience in the development of exams and data analysis as an academic staff member at the Neuropsychopharmacology and Biopsychology Unit of the University of Vienna.

Areas of responsibility at CTL:Online self-assessments, entrance exam and aptitude test procedures

E-Mail: isabelle.krol@univie.ac.at
Tel.: +43-1-4277-12068

MMag. Dr. Heidi Niederkofler
Heidi Niederkofler joined the CTL in 2019. In her work she focuses on exam didactics and the coordination of teaching and performance assessment. Prior to that, she was involved in various research projects on historical and cultural studies issues. Passionate about teaching, she has been gaining teaching experience at a number of Austrian higher education establishments since 2004. She completed her diploma and teacher education programme in History and German Studies in Vienna, and her doctorate in History in Berlin and Vienna.

Areas of responsibility at the CTL: Provision of information materials, workshops and didactic advice on various topics relating to testing, examining and assessment (examination formats and digital implementation, partial achievements in courses with continuous assessment, performance assessment, design of written and oral examinations, group work and assessment, test anxiety); online self-assessments; entrance exam and aptitude test procedures.

E-Mail heidi.niederkofler@univie.ac.at
T: +43-1-4277-120 78

Bibiana Sonntag, MSc
Bibiana Sonntag has worked at the CTL since 2025. While studying, she worked in the social sector, carrying out aptitude tests for private-sector applicants. This has developed her keen interest in aptitude tests. In 2024, she completed her Master's degree in Psychology, specialising in Development and Education, at the University of Vienna.

Areas of responsibility: Online self-assessments, aptitude & admission procedures

E-Mail: bibiana.sonntag@univie.ac.at