Version 3.2.0
doi:10.5157/NEPS:BW:3.2.0
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In many federal states of the German Federal Republic, changes concerning the structure and contents of the upper Gymnasium level (the final years in upper secondary education leading to a higher education entrance qualification) are taking place. For example, the school duration period will be cut from 9 years (G9) down to 8 years (G8). The reduction from 9 to 8 years combined with a reorientation of the study schedule was also implemented in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2004. This supplementary study of the NEPS aims to study in particular these changes and to record its effects. The plan is to examine the impact of the reduced 8 years of Gymnasium time on the students’ performance level and motivation.
The last cohort of students entered the curriculum-oriented (i.e., input-oriented) G9 in fall 2003, whereas one year later, in fall 2004, the first cohort of students entered the outcome-oriented G8, which focuses on reaching educational standards (Bildungstandards). These two year groups will take their Abitur exam in 2012 and are attending the same course level (during the last two school years). The G8 reform study in Baden-Wuerttemberg consists of three cross-sections, that means, it is not a panel survey. During the three survey waves, the graduating classes are tested and questioned:
(1) Abitur year 2010/11, in which almost all students attended school for 13 years. (With the exception of 15 % of the students who could voluntarily choose a shorter time in secondary school before the official implementation of G8).
(2) Abitur year 2011/12, in which G8 as well as G9 students graduate (Doppeljahrgang)
(3) Abitur year 2012/13, which is the first group of students who take their Abitur examination after 12 years of school.
In addition to this survey, the students will also undergo competence tests in English, mathematics, biology, and physics. Tests, specifically developed for the NEPS, are used for measuring cognitive abilities. Furthermore, at the end of the school year the schools will be asked to provide the grades of the course level as well as the Abitur examination results. Supplementary to surveys and tests for students, the heads of the department of mathematics, German, and English, as well as the adminstrative staff are interviewed to receive information about learning environment and structural conditions.
Principal Investigator
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Sandra Buchholz, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg (Germany)
Citation
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Researchers working with data from the National Educational Panel Study are obliged to indicate the use of the data in their publications by citing the data version (DOI) as follows:
NEPS Network. (2018). National Educational Panel Study, Scientific Use File of Additional Study Baden-Wuerttemberg. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:BW:3.2.0
In addition, the NEPS study is to be referred to at an appropriate place and the reference article to be listed in the bibliography:
This paper uses data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; see Blossfeld & Roßbach, 2019). The NEPS is carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi, Germany) in cooperation with a nationwide network.
Blossfeld, H.-P. & Roßbach, H.-G. (Eds.). (2019). Education as a lifelong process: The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Edition ZfE (2nd ed.). Springer VS.
According to the NEPS data usage contract (§9), an immediate, unsolicited notification regarding every type of publication based on NEPS data is required to be sent to LIfBi via e-mail at fdz@lifbi.de. If possible, a link to or an electronic version of the publication is to be provided as part of this notification.
Availability
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Data and documents are released for academic research. This release is uniquely identified by one DOI. All data sets of this release are available in different languages (English, German), formats (Stata, SPSS), and degrees of anynomization (download, remote access, and on-site).
Documentation
Below you will find detailed additional information regarding the surveys, instruments and data from the Additional Study Baden-Wuerttemberg This documentation refers to the version 3.2.0 and will be updated successively. In case of questions, simply contact the Research Data Center.
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| Data Manual (more) |
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The data manual is intended to assist your work with the Scientific Use Files.
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| Release Notes (more) |
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The release notes entail any main changes in comparison to prior versions. Herein, known bugs and possible solutions regarding the most current data version are noted.
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| Study Overview (more) |
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The study documentation provides information at a glance regarding the course of the survey. For each survey, target and context persons are defined as well as case numbers and field time frames.
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| Survey Instruments (more) |
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The survey instruments are made available to you in the form of SUF and field versions. The field versions consist of the originally deployed PAPI questionnaires as well as the programming templates for CATI and CAPI interviews. The SUF versions entail additional information, such as the variable names and labels found in the Scientific Use Files as well as the corresponding scheme options. We recommend the SUF version, when working with the data. The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below.
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| Information on Competence Tests (more) |
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Overview of the administered competence tests
- Description of the scaling model and information in regard to using data from the competence tests (PDF-en)
Usually for each domain there is a brief description of the construct with sample items, a description of the data, and of the psychometric properties of the test. In the table you will find each of the documents that can be downloaded. (The ZIP archive contains all of the documents listed below. Therein documents in regard to the competence domains as well as overview documents can be found.)
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| General cognitive basic skills |
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| Domänenspezifische Kompetenzen |
| Mathematical competences (MA) |
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| Stage-specific competences |
| English reading competence |
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| Physical competence |
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| Biological competence |
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| Semantic Data Structure File (more) |
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The semantic data structure file does not contain data. It does, however, contain the metadata found in the Scientific Use Files (e.g., variable names,variable labels and scheme options). It is useful for exploring the data structure without needing any actual data. The ZIP-File contains German and English versions for Stata and SPSS.
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| Codebook (more) |
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Sorted by data sets, the codebook entails frequency counts of all the variables including the corresponding labels. The on-site version of the SUF serves as the basis for the codebook.
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| Glossary (more) |
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The NEPS Glossary provides information about special terminology related to the German educational and occupational system as well as the NEPS-specific terms and abbreviations that are frequently used throughout the NEPS study.
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| Samples, Weights, Nonresponse (more) |
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This report of weighting and sample stratification includes information regarding the construct principles and sampling process. It also provides insight towards a correct use of the values found in the Scientific Use Files. The provided document refers to the data version 2.0.0. An updated version will be made available to you in the near future.
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| Anonymization Procedures (more) |
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This document describes the used anonymization procedures of the respective data. Here you are also given an overview regarding the opportunity to access sensitive data (Download, Remote, On-Site).
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| Field Reports (more) |
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The field reports document the overall data-collection process executed by the survey institute, including the preparation and execution of the survey, the interviewer selection and deployment, tracking and providing incentives to the target persons, the intial contact and the realization of the interviews and tests, etc. The field reports are suppied by the respective survey institutes and are only available in German.
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