Effects of Social Origin, Interests, Personality Traits, and Competences on Educational Decisions and Educational Attainment (BiKSplus 8-18)
The goal of BiKSplus 8-18 was to extent the existing longitudinal study BiKS-8-14 for another three years. From a sociological and psychological perspective, it focused mainly on educational careers of high-school students to the next key decision threshold, namely the transition into university or vocational training system. Based on the students who had moved already at the end of secondary education in the vocational training system, however, the reliability of the educational decisions already taken were considered. Exploiting the existing longitudinal data base, BiKSplus 8-18 focused on the study of the long-term developments of individual personality traits, competence beliefs and interest groups, and the question to what extent educational aspirations and decisions can be explained by the development of these factors. With BiKSplus 8-18, it was not only possible to exhaustively examine educational decisions that were already made, but rather to adequately capture and explain the antecedent processes of these decisions. (Project)
- Research Design: Oberservational Design
- Sample: Students from grade 10 to 13 (N=1,906)
- DOI: 10.5159/IQB_BiKSplus_8-18_v1
- Restrictions: No
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Individual Characteristics
- Highest school degree to date
- Assessment of the current situation
- Living situation
- Longitudinal children
- Geschlecht Zielkind
- Date of birth of the target child Month and year
- Migration background (combined)
- Highest general school-leaving qualification Target person from waves 1 and 4
- Migration status 1 and 4
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Family Background
- EGP classes of parents
- ISCO
- ISEI
- SIOPS
- Highest vocational qualification of parents
- Support for parents
- Family time
- Family Support
- Children from one family (siblings, twins, triplets)
- ISEI of the target person from wave (1-4)
- Highest ISEI in the household of the target person (combined, W1 to W10)
- Highest general education attainment in the household (combined, W1 to W10)
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Learning and Performance-related Attitudes
- Reading pleasure
- Attitude to reading
- Under- or overchallenged in everyday school life
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School-related Attitudes and Behaviors
- Academic self-concept
- Aspired graduation of friends
- Attitude to individual subjects
- Subject-specific self-concept
- Enjoyment of individual subjects
- Interest in subject of class
- Motivation for desired degree
- Scales for the assessment of learning and achievement motivation
- Probability of achieving the intended degree
- Desire for intended degree
- Prerequisites for desired profession
- estimated probability to start desired study
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Personality
- Vocational interests
- Professional self-efficacy
- Study interest questionnaire
- Instrument for the assessment of the gender role self-concept in adolescence
- Self concept clarity scale
- State-Trait Anxiety-Depression Inventory
- Temporal facets of life satisfaction
- Types of motivation loss
- Stress and Coping Inventory
- Big Five Inventory
- Autonomous goal regulation
- Intrinsic and extrinsic life goals
- Personality and occupation
- Leadership of working groups
- temporalen Facetten der Lebenszufriedenheit
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Occupational Situation
- Career aspiration
- Current occupation
- Importance of the aspired profession
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Professional Education
- Financing of training/studies
- Frequency thoughts of dropping out of degree sought
- realistic aspiration
- Realistic choice of study/education options
- Intention to study and train
- Satisfaction with current education
- Current vocational education
- Training satisfaction
- Current educational situation
- Training facility
- Estimated probability of starting the desired education
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Institutional Characteristics
- Orientation of school type attended
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Educational Biography
- Life events past years
- Life goals
- Future profession
- Desire for job after graduation
- Time of leaving school
- Time of start of training
- Current year of vocational education
- Intention to study/educate
- Prerequisites for desired studies/training
- Reasons for wanting to study/vocational education
- School type in school year 2014/15
- Type of school attended
- Life events of the past years
- Support in shaping professional future
- Intensity of support in shaping professional future
- Expectations, choices and educational pathways
- Active exploration of study/training opportunities.
- Planned educational path after SEK II
- Application training/study
- Type of school attended 2013/2014
- Type of school attended, type of school attended 2011/2012
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Leisure Time Behavior and Media Use
- Media studies (data protection and security)
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Cognitive Learning Outcomes
- Grades
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Domain-Specific Cognitive Competencies
- Grade
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Mathematics Achievement
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Natural Science Achievement
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Biology
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Chemistry
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Physics
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Linguistic Competence
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German Language
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Foreign Language Achievement
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English Language Achievement
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French Language Achievement
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Other Foreign Language Achievement
- Latin
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Musical Achievement (Melody, Rhythm, Music, Singing, Meter)
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Achievement in Other Subjects
- Social studies
- Geography
- History
- Art
- Creativity
- Sports
- Economics
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Vocabulary, passive (Lexicology)
Data Set Published on
July 13, 2023
Current Version Available Since
July 13, 2023
Survey Period
2014-2016
Sample
Students from grade 10 to 13 (N=1,906)
Survey Unit
- Students
- Others
Measured Competencies
Language Skills, Mathematics Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Logical Thinking
Region
Bavaria, Hesse
Principal Investigators
- Artelt, Prof. Dr. Cordula
- Blossfeld, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter
- Buchholz, Prof. Dr. Sandra
- Pfost, Prof. Dr. Maximilian
- Relikowski, Dr. Ilona
Data Producers
- Artelt, Prof. Dr. Cordula
Funded by
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Related Studies
- BiKS 3-10 v6: 10.5159/IQB_BIKS_3_10_v6
- BiKS 8-14 v2: 10.5159/IQB_BIKS_8_14_v2
Suggested Citation
Homuth, C., Becker, S., Schiefer, I., Relikowski, I., Buchholz, S., Pfost, M., Blossfeld, H.-P., & Artelt, C. (2023). Bildungsverläufe am Ende der Sekundarstufe aus soziologischer und psychologischer Perspektive (BiKSplus 8-18) [Effects of social origin, interests, personality traits, and competences on educational decisions and educational attainment (BiKSplus 8-18)] (Version 1) [Data set]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. http://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_BiKSplus_8-18_v1
Restriction Notice
There are no specific data restrictions.
Blank data sets
For a first overview of the data set and its variables, dummy data sets containing the variables used and the value labels relating to them are provided for download here.
Documentation
Here you can find further documentation:
Further information
- https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/89909
The BiKSplus 8-18 data can be linked to the other BiKS 8-14 study via the variable kindcode_anonym.
Literature
Selected literature is listed here.
