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Education as a Lifelong Process

The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

  • The ‘Nationales Bildungspanel Deutschland’ - National Education Panel Germany
  • Modern knowledge societies: education, participation, growth
  • Updated and revised edition of the NEPS

Part of the book series: Edition ZfE (EZFE, volume 3)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
  2. The National Educational Panel Study: Need, Main Features, and Research Potential

    • Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jutta von Maurice, Thorsten Schneider
    Pages 1-16
  3. Education as a Lifelong Process

    • Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jutta von Maurice
    Pages 17-33
  4. Sampling Designs of the National Educational Panel Study: Setup and Panel Development

    • Christian Aßmann, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Ariane Würbach, Sabine Zinn, Angelina Hammon, Hans Kiesl et al.
    Pages 35-55
  5. Development of Competencies Across the Life Course

    • Sabine Weinert, Cordula Artelt, Manfred Prenzel, Martin Senkbeil, Timo Ehmke, Claus H. Carstensen et al.
    Pages 57-81
  6. Education Processes in Life-Course-Specific Learning Environments

    • Thomas Bäumer, Eckhard Klieme, Susanne Kuger, Kai Maaz, Hans-Günther Roßbach, Ludwig Stecher et al.
    Pages 83-99
  7. Social Inequality and Educational Decisions in the Life Course

    • Volker Stocké, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Kerstin Hoenig, Michaela Sixt
    Pages 101-118
  8. The Education of Migrants and Their Children Across the Life Course

    • Cornelia Kristen, Aileen Edele, Frank Kalter, Irena Kogan, Benjamin Schulz, Petra Stanat et al.
    Pages 119-136
  9. Educational Returns Over the Life Course

    • Christiane Gross, Anika Bela, Monika Jungbauer-Gans, Andreas Jobst, Johannes Schwarze
    Pages 137-153
  10. Measuring Motivational Concepts and Personality Aspects in the National Educational Panel Study

    • Florian Wohlkinger, A. Raphaela Blumenfelder, Michael Bayer, Jutta von Maurice, Hartmut Ditton, Hans-Peter Blossfeld
    Pages 155-169
  11. Disentangling Setting and Mode Effects for Online Competence Assessment

    • Ulf Kroehne, Timo Gnambs, Frank Goldhammer
    Pages 171-193
  12. From Birth to Early Child Care: The Newborn Cohort Study of the National Educational Panel Study

    • Claudia Hachul (née Schlesiger), Manja Attig, Jennifer Lorenz, Sabine Weinert, Thorsten Schneider, Hans-Günther Roßbach
    Pages 195-214
  13. Kindergarten and Elementary School: Starting Cohort 2 of the National Educational Panel Study

    • Karin Berendes, Tobias Linberg, Doreen Müller, Sebastian E. Wenz, Hans-Günther Roßbach, Thorsten Schneider et al.
    Pages 215-230
  14. Transition and Development from Lower Secondary to Upper Secondary School

    • Paul Fabian, Martin Goy, Stephan Jarsinski, Kerstin Naujokat, Anna Prosch, Rolf Strietholt et al.
    Pages 231-252
  15. Upper Secondary Education in Academic School Tracks and the Transition from School to Postsecondary Education and the Job Market

    • Wolfgang Wagner, Michaela Kropf, Jochen Kramer, Julia Schilling, Karin Berendes, Ricarda Albrecht et al.
    Pages 253-276
  16. Vocational Education and Training and Transitions into the Labor Market

    • Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Reinhard Pollak, Heike Solga, Laura Menze, Kathrin Leuze, Rosine Edelstein et al.
    Pages 277-295
  17. Higher Education and the Transition to Work

    • Julia-Carolin Brachem, Florian Aschinger, Gritt Fehring, Michael Grotheer, Sonja Herrmann, Marie Kühn et al.
    Pages 297-323
  18. Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

    • Jutta Allmendinger, Corinna Kleinert, Reinhard Pollak, Basha Vicari, Oliver Wölfel, Agnieszka Althaber et al.
    Pages 325-346
  19. Data Protection Issues in the National Educational Panel Study

    • Antonia Schier, Meike Bender, Tobias Koberg, Brigitte Bogensperger, Sonja Gruner, David Schiller et al.
    Pages 347-359

About this book

The volume presents an updated overview of the background ideas of the NEPS and its conceptional framework. It informs about the longitudinal structure of the multicohort sequence design and discusses its key methodological challenges as well as data protection issues. It also describes the organizational structure of the consortium of leading educational scientists and research institutions who have not only jointly developed the basic design but are continuously further adjusting it. Finally, it provides background information for users who want to utilize NEPS Scientific Use Files for their research projects. The volume is a revised edition of the ZfE Special Issue on the NEPS which appeared in 2011. 



Editors and Affiliations

  • Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Hans-Günther Roßbach

About the editors

Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Peter Blossfeld holds the Chair of Sociology I at the University of Bamberg and was the first Principal Investigator of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).

Professor (em.) Dr. Hans-Günther Roßbach held the Chair for Early Childhood Education at the University of Bamberg and was the second principal investigator of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and the founding director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education as a Lifelong Process

  • Book Subtitle: The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

  • Editors: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Hans-Günther Roßbach

  • Series Title: Edition ZfE

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23162-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-23161-3Published: 01 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-23162-0Published: 18 February 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2512-0778

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-0786

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XI, 383

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Education, general

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eBook USD 34.99
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Softcover Book USD 44.99
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