In the context of current migration dynamics, numerous young people are coming to Germany. This entails not only an increase in the number of students, but also in the linguistic and cultural diversity at schools. These changes require new adequate processes for the development of education in schools. So far, however, there is only little research and information on the linguistic performance of newly arrived students in German-speaking countries, nor has the existing evidence ever been reviewed systematically.

This is where the current project comes in: the aim is to systematically collect and review all research studies on the assessment of the linguistic and subject performance data and its development. A scoping review is particularly well suited for this purpose: in a first step, research and selection criteria will be defined and, in a second step, all studies will be reviewed and their results summarised. To complete the picture, connections to ongoing and not yet published studies will be drawn. The goal to provide a replicable and updatable overview of the evidence on the linguistic and subject competencies of newly arrived students in Germany.