News archive 2017

Unexpectedly, Prof. Dr. Volker Stocké has passed away at the age of 51.

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The new data version 4.0.0 for the NEPS Starting Cohort 1 - Newborns - is now available for scientific use.

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The 2nd International NEPS Conference on October 5-6, 2017 at LIfBi in Bamberg assembles 24 paper and 15 poster presentations. The program is complemented by a keynote lecture and by an award ceremony for the best NEPS publication and the best conference poster.

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The third Summer School of the Priority Programme 1646 "Education as a Lifelong Process"—funded and initiated by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)—on “Longitudinal Analyses in Educational Research" took place on July 31–August 4 in cooperation with the LIfBi.

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The 6th workshop on the analysis of incomplete data (AID) held at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) on July 19, 2017, illustrated the different strategies that a public data provider can adopt—namely, to either provide the tools for imputing within the analysis, or to impute first and then analyze.

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The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the University of Bamberg bid farewell to the former Director of the Institute and Chair of Early Childhood Education with a joint ceremony in the auditorium of the university celebrating his retirement.

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The new data version 9.0.0 for the NEPS Starting Cohort 5 - First-Year Students - is now available for scientific use.

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Dr. Katarina Weßling, University of Cologne, talks about the relations between context characteristics and transitions to secondary education, vocational training, higher education, and the labor market.

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The online form for this year's international NEPS Conference on October 5-6, 2017 at LIfBi in Bamberg is now activated. Interested persons are invited to register for their conference participation:

https://www.neps-data.de/de-de/neps-conference2017/registration.aspx

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The new data version 9.0.0 for the NEPS Starting Cohort 4 - Grade 9 - is now available for scientific use.

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Even in times of crisis, the typical transition from school to employment is popular among graduates.

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As part of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories’ (LIfBi) involvement in the National Report on Education 2018, Dr. Oliver Winkler (Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg) was invited for a guest lecture as an expert on downward and upward mobility during the school career. On April 7, 2017, he gave a presentation on the topic of “Second chance education during the life course. A sequence pattern analysis of intermediate secondary school graduates making up for Abitur.”

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Prof. Susanne Schwab (University of Wuppertal, North-West University South Africa), Prof. Markus Gebhardt (TU Dortmund University), Prof. Marco Hessels (University of Geneva, North-West University South Africa), and Lena Nusser (University of Bamberg) investigated this topic on the basis of data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS Starting Cohort 3).

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A lively scientific exchange was the primary focus of the 3-day visit by Prof. Jane Waldfogel, Ph.D., Columbia University School of Social Work & London School of Economics, at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

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Local politicians define political usefulness of educational research as their key expectation.

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On February 13, 2017, the Annual General Meeting of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) met in Bamberg for the fourth time. The NEPS Annual General Meeting represents scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories and different cooperating institutions. In this way, the NEPS receives expertise from different academic disciplines. The meeting focused on reinventing the process of instrument development for NEPS as well as its future development.

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Dr. Helen Wareham and Virgilio Sastre, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at the University of Durham, received information about the challenges and solutions concerning data editing and data provision for the scientific community, illustrated by the example of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).

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The former President of the Hessian Statistical Office spoke about the “New general data protection regulation of the European Union” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi).

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One of the most distinguished representatives of rational choice theory in German sociology discussed with employees of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) some first and highly controversial results generated on the basis of data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) as a work in progress.

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