Qualification
Qualification
About Dr. Christoph Giehl
- Freelance data scientist since 2013
- Lecturer for methods of empirical social research at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Germany), the University of Mannheim (Germany) and at various companies since 2014
- Employee in various research projects at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Germany) from 2013 to 2023
- Founder and senior consultant of the Giehl analytics institute for data technology 2023
- Doctorate at the Institute of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) (title: “Identification and control of question order effects. Development and evaluation of a CFA model to correct estimation biases caused by measurement errors at the indicator level”, download here)
Selected projects
Project „Equal-Life“ (2020-2024)
Department of Psychology II and Center for Cognitive Science at the TU Kaiserslautern (today: RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) (Germany) in association with an EU network consisting of 21 partners.
- Identification of physical and social exposomes influencing children’s health
- Development and evaluation of methodological instruments for data protection-compliant multi-group analyzes and international comparative analyses
- Data analysis in the areas of machine learning, regression and structural equation modeling
Project „A-DigiKomp“ (2020-2023)
Department of Psychology II and Center for Cognitive Science at TU Kaiserslautern (today: RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) in association with RWTH Aachen, Saarland University, Döpfer University (HSD), Serious Games Solutions (division of Promotion Software GmbH) and the IMC (Germany).
- Usability and acceptance analyzes of a serious game in an app version for learning digital skills among adolescents
- Planning and conducting surveys, preparing results reports, presenting results to stakeholders
- Evaluation of qualitative interviews and user behavior
Project „RLP2048“ (2018-2019)
Department of Urban Sociology at the TU Kaiserslautern in association with the DFKI (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence), the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and the Development Agency Rhineland-Palatinate e.V. (Germany).
- Evidence-based development of scenarios of the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of municipal life in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2048
- Derivation of recommendations for business and politics
- Writing an expert opinion
Project „Lessons Learned? (2016-2017)
Department of Empirical Social Research at the TU Kaiserslautern in association with the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich (Germany).
- Gaining insights from the communication of the relocation from an operational area using the example of the ISAF forces from Afghanistan in 2014
- Planning of data collection in 5 European countries (Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Poland), in particular construction of a questionnaire, coordination with experts from the relevant countries and translation of the questionnaire
- Analysis of the collected data using various methods (cluster analyses, causal analyses, structural equation modeling, indifference tests)
Project „Lehrevaluation Plus“ (2014-2017)
Department of Empirical Social Research at TU Kaiserslautern in association with the Department for Quality in Studies and Teaching at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany).
- Optimization of the university-wide course survey
- Development of an instrument to measure teaching quality
- Pretest the instrument in several phases
- Factor analyzes and causal modeling to validate the instrument
Evaluation of online education offerings (MOOC) (2013)
Department of Adult Education at the TU Kaiserslautern (Germany).
- Planning and programming an online survey for MOOC participants
- Export of data and data management
- Various quantitative data analyzes and documentation of results
Selected publications
Spilski, J., Giehl, C., Boshuizen, H., Wong, A., Bergström, K., Lachmann, T., & Klatte, M. (2022). Traffic noise and children’s health: New insights from a machine learning algorithm. Proceedings of the InterNoise 2022. Glasgow, Scotland.
Spilski, J., Exner, J.P., Schmidt, M., Schlittmeier, S., Giehl, C., Lachmann, T., Pietschmann, M., Werth, D. (2019). Potential of VR in the vocational education and training of craftsmen. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality 2019. Bangkok, Thailand.
Berg, M., Giehl, C., Koch, M., Memmel, M., Spellerberg, A., & Walter, R. (2019). Gutachterliche Stellungnahme zu den Auswirkungen künstlicher Systeme im Speziellen und der Digitalisierung im Allgemeinen auf das kommunale Leben in Rheinland-Pfalz 2050. Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern.
Mayerl, J., Andersen, H., & Giehl, C. (2019). Identification of Measurement Problems of Survey Items and Scales using Paradata. In N. Menold & T.Wolbring (Ed.). Qualitätssicherung sozialwissenschaftlicher Erhebungsinstrumente (pp. 9-36). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Mayerl, J., & Giehl, C. (2018). A Closer Look at Attitude Scales with Positive and Negative Items. Response Latency Perspectives on Measurement Quality. Survey Research Methods, 12(3), 9999 – 10016.
Giehl, C., Bogner, C., Mayerl, J., & Prescher, T. (2018). Entwicklung und Test eines Messinstruments zur überfachlichen Kompetenz. Eine konfirmatorische Faktoranalyse. In T. Prescher, C: Marquardt & J. Fluck (Ed.). Zeitschrift für Empirische Pädagogik, Themenheft: Überfachliche Kompetenzen als kompetenzgenerierende Lösungsmuster, 32(1), 96-118.
Spellerberg, A., & Giehl, C. (2018). Armut und Wohnen. In P. Böhnke, J. Dittmann & J. Goebel (Ed.). Handbuch Armut. Ursachen, Trends, Maßnahmen. Opladen/Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
Selected lectures at conferences
International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) 2022
Gyeongju, Korea
Topic: “The relevance of the number of aircraft events for children’s cognition: Further evidence from a machine learning algorithm”
International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Topic: “Potential of VR in the vocational education and training of craftsmen”
International Sociological Association World Congress 2018
Toronto, Canada
Topic: „Explaining response styles and response bias using the attitude towards surveys and the attitude accessibility towards the research topic“
European Survey Research Association Conference 2017
Lisbon, Portugal
Topic: „Explaining systematic measurement errors using cognitive-process models of response behavior and the attitude towards surveys “
RC33 Conference der International Sociological Association 2016
Leicester, UK
Topic: “The attitude towards surveys as a predictor of response behavior”