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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.

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Author:   Sabine Weinert ,  Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld ,  Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.902kg
ISBN:  

9783031270062

ISBN 10:   3031270061
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   15 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Education, Competence Development and Career TrajectoriesHans-Peter Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Sabine Weinert Part I. Competence and Skill Development: Individual Characteristics, Learning Environments, and Contextual Factors2. Quality of Early Learning Environments: Measures, Validation, and Effects on Child DevelopmentSabine 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 GermanyLoreen 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 SurveysClemens M. Lechner 5. The Interplay Between Instructional Pace, Skill Externalities, and Student Achievement: An Empirical AssessmentDavid Kiss 6. Addressing Environmental and Individual Factors in Early Secondary School: The Roles of Instruction Techniques and Self-PerceptionJeffrey 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 SchoolsGabriel Olaru, Alexander Robitzsch, Andrea Hildebrandt and Ulrich Schroeders Part II. Educational Transitions and Pathways: Influencing Factors and Outcomes8. Inequality in Educational Transitions During Secondary School: Results From the German National Educational Panel StudyFlorian Wohlkinger and Hartmut Ditton 9. lternative Routes to Higher Education Eligibility: Inclusion, Diversion, and Social Inequality on the Way to Higher EducationSteffen Schindler and Felix Bittmann 10. Dropping Out of Higher Education in Germany: Using Retrospective Life Course Data to Determine Dropout Rates and Destinations of Non-CompletersNicole Tieben 11. Studying Influences of Socio-Economic Contexts and Spatial Effects on Educational CareersSteffen Hillmert, Andreas Hartung and Katarina Weßling Part III. Vocational Training and Labour Market12. Low-Achieving School Leavers in Germany - Who Are They and Where Do They Go?Anne Christine Holtmann, Laura Menze and Heike Solga 13. Occupational Sex Segregation and its Consequences for the (Re-)Production of Gender Inequalities in the German Labour MarketCorinna Kleinert, Kathrin Leuze, Ann-Christin Bächmann, Dörthe Gatermann, Anna Erika Hägglund and Kai Rompczyk 14. Employment-Related Further Training in a Dynamic Labour MarketSilke Anger, Pascal Heß, Simon Janssen and Ute Leber 15. Regional Factors as Determinants of Employees’ Training ParticipationKatja Görlitz, Sylvi Rzepka and Marcus Tamm Part IV. Individuals With Migration Background16. Is the First Language a Resource, an Obstacle or Irrelevant for Language Minority Students’ Education?Aileen Edele, Julian Seuring, Kristin Schotte, Cornelia Kristen and Petra Stanat 17. Ethnic differences in social capital mobilization at the transition to vocational training in GermanyTobias Roth and Markus Weißmann 18. Gendered occupational aspirations: A comparison of young native-born and Turkish minority womenManuel Siegert, Tobias Roth and Irena Kogan

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Sabine Weinert is head of the Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Bamberg. Her research focuses on the development of competencies, their impact and influencing factors. She acted as scientific head of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; a large-scale multicohort study) and coordinates the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Programme ‘Education as a Lifelong Process‘. Gwendolin J. Blossfeld is a coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme 1646 ‘Education as a Lifelong Process’ and a postdoctoral fellow of the Twinning Project ‘YouthLife’ which are both located at the University of Bamberg. She has organized substantive and methodological workshops for the DFG Priority Programme 1646. Her substantive research interests are in the fields of educational sociology, methods of longitudinal data analysis, social inequality, and demography. Hans-Peter Blossfeld is Emeritus of Excellence at the University of Bamberg and coordinates (together with S. Weinert) the interdisciplinary DFG Priority Programme ‘Education as a Lifelong Process.‘ He is the founder of the NEPS and held a Chair of Sociology at the University of Bamberg. He is an internationally renowned expert on life-course research, statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis, modern methods of quantitative social research, cross-national research, social inequality, youth, family, educational sociology, labor market research, demography, and social stratification and mobility.

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