How can we measure post-school educational contexts? – Analysing the interplay between students, schools, firms and universities |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Katarina Wessling (Maastricht University ) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Dominik Becker (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn) |
After completing general secondary school, students can – depending on their national educational system – enter different forms of vocational education and training (VET) or higher education (HE). These forms of post-school education occur in various contexts such as vocational schools, training firms, colleges, universities of applied sciences or research universities. In countries that offer on-the-job VET programs, dual training or dual studies, students are trained jointly in firms and vocational schools or universities. To gain a comprehensive understanding of how the learning contexts influence individuals' educational success, skill acquisition, and labour-market outcomes, it is essential to gather data on these contexts. Specifically, linked data that integrates information about individuals, schools, firms, and universities is crucial for a more holistic analysis.
In this session, we discuss data and substantive research on the measurement and analysis of post-school contexts in the above sense, and their impact on students’ educational and employment outcomes.
We are interested in the following research topics:
Data sources: Discussing newly available data sources (survey, register, institutional, curricular, job advertisements etc.) that allow for analysing the contexts of post-school education
Data linkage: Linking firm-level and vocational school-level, college-level and/or university-level data with student/apprentice-level data
Measurement of context conditions in vocational schools, higher education institutions and firms:
- Expectations (and effectiveness) of VET schools teachers, HE educators or firm instructors
- Instruction quality in VET schools, HE institutions or on the firm level
- Social, gender, skill, or other forms of composition in VET schools, HE institutions or firms
Analyses of effects of context conditions in vocational schools, higher education institutions and firms: Effects on objective and subjective labour-market outcomes, e.g. skill acquisition, wages, employment prospects, mismatch or occupational mobility, vocational interests, work values, regrets in career choices