Institute of Education

Krisztián Józsa is professor of education in the Institute of Education at the University of Szeged, Hungary. He earned his MS in 1996 as a teacher of mathematics and physics. He qualified as an expert in educational assessment (MA) in 2000, received a PhD in 2003, and the Habilitation in 2013. From 2004-2008 he was a grantee of the Bolyai János Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he was a visiting researcher at Colorado State University; in 2012-2013 he was a Fulbright research scholar. He received Pro Scientia Gold Medal in 1997 and the Young Researcher Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2008. His major fields of research include mastery motivation, reading comprehension, pre-school and elementary school skill development and improvement programs.