Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment

In recent years, the high rates of higher education dropout have raised attention of education research and policy makers in Germany. However, due to data privacy legislation, it remains challenging to obtain information about the individual progress of students through higher education and the dest…

In this chapter, we provide an in-depth analysis of the differences between students with and without a migration background in Germany in mobilising social capital during the transition to vocational education and training (VET) after lower secondary education. Besides retrospective information, we…

The development of generic pedagogical competencies is regarded as a key element of university-based teacher education. In the Observe project, the professional vision of pre-service teachers is investigated as an indicator of the acquisition of applicable generic pedagogical knowledge with regard t…

This chapter clarifies, for the occupations of car mechatronics and electronic technicians: (1) whether the conceptual competency dimensions action-centered and not directly action-centered occupation-specific knowledge have further sub-dimensions and if so, whether these sub-dimensions change durin…