News archive 2020

The new version 2.0.0 of the R package „NEPSscaling“ extends the possibility of independent estimation of Plausible Values for competence assessments to the starting cohorts 1 to 4. It complements the previous range of version 1.0.0 for the starting cohorts 5 and 6. All available combinations of starting cohort, competence domain, and survey wave can be retrieved via the „currently_implemented()“ function of the package. In addition to the current R package, new application examples have been made available on the website.

The 5th International NEPS Conference of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) took place on December 7 and 8, 2020. Around 300 participants from 11 different countries met – for the first time in a purely online event format. In her keynote speech,  Director of LIfBi and Project Leader of NEPS, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt, looked back on the first 10 years of the education panel. Guest speaker was Prof. DPhil Michelle Jackson from Stanford University on the topic "Is Socioeconomic Inequality Fundamental?". In addition, the "NEPS Publication Award" was presented for outstanding papers based on NEPS data.

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 2 are now available in version 9.0.0 for scientific use.

For the university student and adult cohort of the NEPS, updates with data of the Corona additional survey from May 2020 are now available for scientific analysis.

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 4 are now available in version 11.0.0 for scientific use.

With NEPS-SC5-ADIAB, researchers now have another data package available for scientific analyses. It combines the survey data of respondents from NEPS Starting Cohort 5 (First-Year Students) on the individual level with administrative data of the Federal Employment Agency (BA).

NEPS-ADIAB data portfolio

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 3 are now available in version 10.0.0 for scientific use.

The process of registering the individual keystroke biometric profile for the use of RemoteNEPS is now completely online.

The number of scientists registered for using data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) has exceeded the threshold of 2,500 users in July 2020. Over the past year and a half, on average almost 25 data users per month have been added.
 

Two renowned journals, "Soziale Welt" and "Frontiers in Psychology", have announced special issues on the Covid-19 pandemic. In both cases, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) are involved as editors. Abstacts can be submitted for both journals as of now.

On June 18, 2020, the 7th Full Staff Meeting of the National Education Panel Study (NEPS) was held. The invitation of the chairperson, Dr. Manja Attig, was accepted by 101 employees of LIfBi and the NEPS Network partners. At the meeting, the NEPS staff representatives, Dr. Manja Attig, Helene Gress and Benjamin Schulz, discussed the exceptional events of the past year in the NEPS and the challenges that the further development of the Institute poses for the staff, but also for the NEPS studies. In addition, Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt, LIfBi Director and Head of NEPS, looked back on the past 10 years of NEPS on the occasion of its anniversary and reported together with Dr. Jutta von Maurice on current developments in NEPS.
 

Due to the still uncertain situation regarding the corona pandemic, it will be possible to participate virtually in the 5th International NEPS Conference hosted by the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi, Bamberg) on 7 and 8 December 2020. You can now register online for participation in the event.

Online registration on the conference website

With NEPS-SC1-ADIAB, a new data package for scientific analysis is now available to researchers. It combines the survey data of parents from the NEPS Starting Cohort 1 (Newborns) with administrative data of the Federal Employment Agency (BA).

NEPS-ADIAB data portfolio

The National Educational Panel Study invites all interested researchers to submit proposals for new survey modules in all NEPS starting cohorts. With the first "Call for Modules", the NEPS now opens its survey program to external content. The deadline for sending in a short outline is 30 September 2020.

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 6 are now available in version 11.0.0 for scientific use.

With the current „LIfBi data“, the Research Data Center (Forschungsdatenzentrum FDZ) reports about important innovations in 2020. The newsletter contains, among other things, information about the implications of the corona pandemic, new documentation and service offers as well as planned events. In addition, the document again provides a list of current publications based on NEPS data. If you would like to receive this biannual newsletter by e-mail in the future, you can subscribe (and unsubscribe) at any time via our website.

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As of now, interested persons can find two video tutorials on the website of the Research Data Center (RDC, Forschungsdatenzentrum FDZ) to introduce the survey design of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) and to explain the data structure of the Scientific Use Files offered.

With the current Scientific Use File of Starting Cohort 5 (First-Year Students, version 14.0.0), so-called Plausible Values (PV) were published for the first time for the main domains of competence data. For Starting Cohort 6 (Adults, version 11.0.0), a similar data offering will follow very soon. For further NEPS starting cohorts, the addition of Plausible Values is already in preparation. Besides the provided PV variables, the freely available R-package „NEPSscaling“ provides the possibility to generate independently suitable Plausible Values for own analysis purposes.

Further informationen under „Overview and Assistance“

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 5 are now available in version 14.0.0 for scientific use.

A new version of the data package „Survey data from the adult cohort of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS-SC6) linked with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (ADIAB)“, first released in April 2018, is now available. On the one hand, the new version includes administrative data from 1975 to 2017 and thus offers an extension of the covered time span by two years. On the other hand, the survey data of the NEPS Starting Cohort 6 now extend up to and including the tenth wave. Data users involved in projects with an existing data use agreement for NEPS-SC6-ADIAB can informally apply for an update by sending an e-mail to the Research Data Center of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB-FDZ).

Further information on the IAB-FDZ website

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) hopes for a normalization of the situation in the wake of the corona crisis and plans to continue its series of international conferences with the 5th NEPS Conference in Bamberg on 7 and 8 December 2020. From now on, contributions can be submitted for paper and poster presentations on all topics of empirical educational research. Please have a look at our conference website for further information including the "Call for Papers".

Go to the conference website

He has been affiliated with the National Education Panel Study (NEPS) for over ten years and has been acting Head of the Department “Research Data Center, Method Development” at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) since 2016. Now, Prof. Dr. Christian Aßmann has been appointed to the department of Survey Statistics and Data Analysis at the University of Bamberg.

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 1 are now available in version 7.0.0 for scientific use.

New data for the NEPS Starting Cohort 5 are now available in version 13.0.0 for scientific use.

An updated data version 8.0.1 for the NEPS Starting Cohort 2 is now available for scientific use.

With the current "LIfBi data" the Research Data Center wishes a good and successful year 2020. The newsletter contains information about this year's data trainings, new data offers, the NEPS User Survey 2019, the development of NEPS data usage and selected new publications based on NEPS data. In addition, it provides a review of the last NEPS conference with the awards for the best publication and the best conference poster. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to the biannual newsletter at any time via the website.

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