Education as a Lifelong Process

<p>The National Educational Panel Study: need, main features, and research potential.- Education as a lifelong process.- Sampling Designs of the National Educational Panel Study: Setup and Panel Development.- Development of competencies across the life span.- Education processes in life-course-specific learning environments.- Social inequality and educational decisions in the life course.- The education of migrants and their children across the life course.- Educational returns over the life course.- Measuring motivational concepts and personality aspects in National Educational Panel Study.- Competence Assessment: Create Comparability to Standardized Competence Assessment using Log-Data and a Reference Sample.- From birth to early child care within the National Educational Panel Study.- Kindergarten and elementary school - Starting Cohort 2 of the German National Educational Panel Study.- Transition and development from lower secondary to upper secondary school.- Upper secondary education in academic school tracks and the transition from school to post secondary education and the job market.- Vocational education and training and transitions into the labor market.- Higher education and the transition to work.- Adult education and lifelong learning.- Data protection issues in the National Educational Panel Study.- The Research Data Center: making National Educational Panel Study data available for research.</p>