Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories: Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

ISBN-13: 9783031270062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Sabine Weinert; Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld; Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Opis

This Open Access book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research program to utilize data from the multicohort German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), which included over 100.000 participants in six nationally representative panel studies. Renowned researchers from the fields of sociology, psychology, educational science, economics, and survey methodology have used the (longitudinal) data for their substantive and/or methodological questions and present important results of their research projects. This edited volume contains contributions from the following four topics: (1) Competence Development: Individual Characteristics, Learning Environments, and other Contextual Factors, (2) Educational Transitions and Pathways: Influencing Factors and Outcomes, (3) Vocational Training and Labour Market, and (4) Individuals with Migration Background. It provides essential insights for researchers, postdocs, PhD students, and university students of different scientific disciplines interested in educational sciences as well as for policy makers who have to deal with educational problems in modern societies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories

Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Sabine Weinert

Part I. Competence and Skill Development: Individual Characteristics, Learning Environments, and Contextual Factors

2. Quality of Early Learning Environments: Measures, Validation, and Effects on Child Development

Sabine Weinert, Manja Attig, Anja Linberg, Franziska Vogel and Hans-Günther Rossbach

3. The Emergence of Gender-Specific Competence Patterns and Decision Making During the Course of Educational and Job Careers in Germany

Loreen Beier, Alessandra Minello, Wilfred Uunk, Magdalena Pratter, Gordey Yastrebov and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

4. Patterns and Predictors of Literacy and Numeracy Development During Adulthood: Insights From Two Longitudinal Assessment Surveys

Clemens M. Lechner

5. The Interplay Between Instructional Pace, Skill Externalities, and Student Achievement: An Empirical Assessment

David Kiss

6. Addressing Environmental and Individual Factors in Early Secondary School: The Roles of Instruction Techniques and Self-Perception

Jeffrey M. DeVries, Carsten Szardenings, Philipp Doebler and Markus Gebhardt

7. An Illustration of Local Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal Data: Examining Differences in Competence Development in Secondary Schools

Gabriel Olaru, Alexander Robitzsch, Andrea Hildebrandt and Ulrich Schroeders

Part II. Educational Transitions and Pathways: Influencing Factors and Outcomes

8. Inequality in Educational Transitions During Secondary School: Results From the German National Educational Panel Study