SPP 1646: Education as a Lifelong Process. Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)

在德国，很少有人知道教育是一个终身的过程，也很少有人知道一生中在多种情况下学习的累积和互动影响。德国新的国家教育小组研究（NEPS）提供了独特的，具有全国代表性的个人教育事业和能力的纵向数据，以及它们如何在与家庭，教育机构，工作场所和私人生活相关的生命过程中展开。优先计划包括来自六个不同学科的17个研究项目，致力于以下一个或多个研究主题：(1)研究生命过程中的能力发展；(2)利用NEPS数据库进行其他相关实质性分析；(3)将NEPS数据与其他国家和/或国际数据集相结合；(4)处理与NEPS相关的方法问题。这些项目分布在七所德国大学和七所德国研究机构。优先规划由rer博士教授协调。波尔。Hans-Peter Blossfeld博士和Sabine Weinert教授（均为班贝格大学）。NEPS的第一波评估是在2009/2010年（成人队列）和2010/2011年（4岁的幼儿园儿童、10岁和15岁的中学儿童以及高等教育机构的新生）进行的。2013年，一组婴儿（一岁以内）将被纳入NEPS。这些队列之后将进行年度扫荡。NEPS第一波的数据最近作为科学使用文件发表。主计划获批为期六年（自2012年1月1日起），个别项目初期实施三年，三年后可延长，新项目亦可纳入。

In Germany, little is known about education as a lifelong process or about the cumulative and interactive impact of learning that occurs in multiple contexts over the life span. The new National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany provides unique, nationally representative longitudinal data on individual educational careers and competencies and how they unfold over the life course in relation to the family, educational institutions, workplaces and private life. The Priority Programme encompasses 17 research projects from six different disciplines that are devoted to one or more of the following research topics: (1) studying competence development over the life course, (2) utilising the NEPS database for other relevant substantive analyses, (3) combining NEPS data with additional national and/or international datasets and (4) dealing with methodological issues relevant to the NEPS. These projects are distributed throughout seven German universities and seven German research institutes. The Priority Programme is coordinated by Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Prof. Dr. Sabine Weinert (both University of Bamberg). The first assessment waves of the NEPS were carried out in 2009/2010 (adult cohort) and 2010/2011 (kindergarten children at age four, children in secondary school at ages 10 and 15, and freshmen at the institutions of tertiary education). In 2013, a sample of infants (in their first year of life) will be added to the NEPS. These cohorts will be followed up by yearly sweeps. Data from the first wave of the NEPS was recently published as a scientific use file. While the main programme is approved for six years (since 1.1.2012), the individual projects will be implemented initially for three years and may be extended after three years as well as new projects will be included.