How do skills develop over the course of a lifetime? Do children benefit from attending daycare at an early age? What factors influence educational pathways and success? And how does political trust change? With NEPS Highlights, the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) is now offering a new transfer format that presents selected research findings in a compact and understandable way using data from the National Education Panel Study (NEPS).
NEPS is the largest long-term educational study in Germany. It tracks educational biographies from early childhood to late adulthood. More than 70,000 participants and around 50,000 people from their surroundings, e.g., parents and educational professionals, are surveyed on a recurring basis. Scientists from 13 German research institutes work together on NEPS under the leadership of LIfBi. The data obtained is made available to the scientific community. More than 4,000 researchers worldwide work with NEPS data. More than 1,900 publications based on this data have already been published. However, these are mainly published in scientific journals. The NEPS Highlights now make selected findings on key NEPS topics available to a wider audience in a concise and understandable manner.
“The NEPS Highlights show the potential of the longitudinal data from the National Education Panel,” emphasizes LIfBi Director Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt. “We are building a bridge between academia, which often publishes the results of complex analyses in specialist journals, and the interested public, for whom we prepare the key findings of these publications.”
Each Highlight contains a key message, a brief explanation, and a graphic that visualizes the respective findings. The graphics are interactive and also show sub-evaluations, e.g., by gender or educational background. In addition, links are provided to the original studies, the data basis, and further information. There are 20 Highlights available at launch, covering topics such as the development of scientific skills of primary school children, vocabulary growth in kindergarten, understanding of democracy, and political trust. The range of Highlights will be continuously expanded.
The Highlights are free of charge and accessible without registration:
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