Artikel

Analysing Diversion Processes in German Secondary Education: School-Track Effects on Educational Aspirations

Educational aspirations can be regarded as a predictor of final educational attainment, rendering this construct highly relevant for analysing the development of educational inequalities in panel data settings. In the context of the German tracked secondary school system, we analysed school-track effects on the development of educational aspirations. Using data from five consecutive waves of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we selected a sample of high-performing students with initially high aspirations. Our results indicate that pupils in the nonacademic track or with a low social origin tend to lower their aspirations significantly more often than pupils in the academic track or pupils with a high social origin. With mediation analyses, we demonstrate that these differences can be attributed to learning environments at the school level. We also show that the downward adjustment of aspirations in the nonacademic track is less pronounced for students from highly educated families than for students from low-education family backgrounds.

Alternative title
Ablenkungsprozesse im deutschen Sekundarschulsystem und die Effekte von Schulformen auf Bildungsaspirationen
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie ; ISSN: 1861-891X ; Volume: 73 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 231-257 ; Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Subject
Learning environments
Social inequality
Longitudinal analysis
Mediation analysis
NEPS
Lernumwelten
Soziale Ungleichheit
Längsschnittanalyse
Mediationsanalyse
NEPS

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bittmann, Felix
Schindler, Steffen
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
(where)
Wiesbaden
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1007/s11577-021-00789-1
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET

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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Bittmann, Felix
  • Schindler, Steffen
  • Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Time of origin

  • 2021

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