Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. I. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The National Educational Panel Study: Milestones of the Years 2006 to 2015

      • Jutta von Maurice, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Hans-Günther Roßbach

      Pages 3-18

   3. Analytic Strategies for the Study of Adaptation to Major Life Events: Making the Most of Large-Scale Longitudinal Surveys

      • Frank J. Infurna, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jutta Heckhausen

      Pages 19-35

3. II. Sampling, Recruiting, and Fieldwork Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Weighting Panel Cohorts in Institutional Contexts

      • Hans Walter Steinhauer, Sabine Zinn, Christian Aßmann

      Pages 39-62

   3. Variance Estimation with Balanced Repeated Replication: An Application to the Fifth and Ninth Grader Cohort Samples of the National Educational Panel Study

      • Sabine Zinn

      Pages 63-84

   4. Challenges in Gaining Access: The School Cohorts of the National Educational Panel Study

      • André Müller-Kuller, Sonja Meixner, Michaela Sixt

      Pages 85-98

   5. Cooperation and Communication Within Scientific Organizations: The Role of Survey Coordination

      • Ina-Sophie Ristau

      Pages 99-110

   6. The Concept of Individual Retracking in NEPS—Approach, Practice, and First Empirical Evidence From Starting Cohorts 3 and 4

      • Michaela Sixt, Martin Goy, Georg Besuch

      Pages 111-132

   7. Challenges and Intentions of Target-Specific Public Relations Work

      • Götz Lechner, Julia Göpel, Anna Passmann

      Pages 133-148

4. III. Longitudinal Measurement of Educational Processes: Surveys and Constructs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Video-Based Assessment and Rating of Parent-Child Interaction Within the National Educational Panel Study

      • Anja Sommer, Claudia Hachul, Hans-Günther Roßbach

      Pages 151-167

   3. Measuring Personality Traits of Young Children— Results From a NEPS Pilot Study

      • Doreen Müller, Tobias Linberg, Michael Bayer, Thorsten Schneider, Florian Wohlkinger

      Pages 169-180

   4. Measuring Self-Concept in the NEPS

      • Florian Wohlkinger, Michael Bayer, Hartmut Ditton

      Pages 181-193

   5. Identifying Immigrants and Their Descendants in the National Educational Panel Study

      • Cornelia Kristen, Melanie Olczyk, Gisela Will

      Pages 195-211

   6. Measuring Health in a Longitudinal Education Study

      • Johann Carstensen, Anja Gottburgsen, Monika Jungbauer-Gans

      Pages 213-232

   7. The Standard Stress Scale (SSS): Measuring Stress in the Life Course

      • Christiane Gross, Katharina Seebaß

      Pages 233-249

   8. Validity of Survey Data of Students with Special Educational Needs— Results From the National Educational Panel Study

      • Lena Nusser, Jana Heydrich

      Pages 251-266

   9. The Conceptualization, Development, and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring the Formal Learning Environment in Higher Education

      • Hildegard Schaeper, Thomas Weiß

      Pages 267-290

This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the NEPS. It covers longitudinal issues such as sampling, weighting, recruiting and fieldwork management, the design of longitudinal surveys and the implementation of constructs, conducting competence tests over the life course, effective methods to improve and to maintain the highest level of data quality, data management tools for large-scale longitudinal surveys, the dissemination of research data to heterogeneous scientific communities, as well as establishing a long-term public relations and communications unit integrating a study’s stakeholder community over time.

• Assesment
• Education
• Institutions
• Scale Longitudial Surveys
• School
• Students
• learning and instruction

• Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

  Hans-Peter Blossfeld

• Direktorium, Leibniz Inst of Edu courses (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany

  Jutta von Maurice

• LIfBi, Bamberg, Germany

  Michael Bayer

• SPS, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

  Jan Skopek

Hans-Peter Blossfeld is on leave from his Chair in Sociology at Bamberg University since 2012 and holds a Chair in Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence.   

Jutta von Maurice is the executive director of research of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.

Michael Bayer is operational manager of the operational unit ‘Motivational Variables and Personality Aspects Across the Life Course’ at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.

Jan Skopek is senior research scientist at the Comparative Life Course & Inequality Research Center of the European University Institute in Florence and is conducting cross-national comparisons in the eduLIFE project, which is supported by an advanced grant from the ERC. 

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