Version
2.0.0
doi:10.5157/NEPS:TH:2.0.0
The information on this site refers to version 2.0.0. Information on the former version 1.0.0 you get here: doi:10.5157/NEPS:TH:1.0.0
Date of Release
Summary
Many Länder are currently reforming the curriculum and the organization of the Gymnasiale Oberstufe (final years in upper secondary education qualifying for university education). In general, these changes aim towards a stronger emphasis on general education and a restriction of the differentiation (consolidation) in the Leistungskurs-Grundkurs-System during the last two years in the Gymnasiale Oberstufe. The survey on the reform of the Leistungskurs-Grundkurs-System within the National Educational Panel Study is conducted for the graduation years 2010 (last year group which is not affected by the reform) and 2011 (first reformed year group) in Thuringia.
The organizational reform study of the Gymnasiale Oberstufe in Thuringia was conducted at 32 upper secondary level schools. All students of the 12th grade at the selected schools were tested and questioned only once (provided that consent was given). Therefore, this is not a panel survey.
To record possible effects of the reform, achievement tests (Fachleistungstests) in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, and English, questions about the students’ social background, a test on cognitive abilities, and questionnaires were applied. In addition, the parents and subject teachers of the 12th graders were integrated into the survey.
Principal Investigator
Hans-Günther Roßbach, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg (Germany)
Citation
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. (2014). National Educational Panel Study, Scientific Use File of Additional Study Thuringia. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg. https://doi.org/10.5157/NEPS:TH:2.0.0
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
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 Aditional Study Thuringia. This documentation refers to the version 2.0.0 and will be updated successively. In case of questions, simply contact the Research Data Center.
| 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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Constructs, test processes and sample items |
Data, psychometric properties and scaling |
| Domain-overlapping competences |
| Cognitive basic skills (KFT) |
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| Domain-specific competences |
| 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 1.0.0. 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). The provided document refers to the data version 1.0.0. An update was not necessary.
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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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