Berlin Survey of Work-Relevant Basic Competencies of Students with Special Educational Needs in "Learning" (BELLA)

The project dealt with the topic of improving pedagogical quality in schools with the funding focus on learning, schools with joint teaching and vocational schools. The study recorded the knowledge levels and backgrounds of students (N=4,481) with the help of performance tests and questionnaires. Within the scope of the study – performed in the summer of 2006 - standardised performance tests for general mathematics and German, a test for obtaining information from so-called "discontinuous texts", a test for solving problems, a test for technical understanding and a test for economic understanding were used. The cognitive abilities of the participating students were measured using the short form of the language-free intelligence test CFT 20. Attitudes and assessments towards school and teaching criteria as well as work in the student companies were recorded using a general questionnaire specially developed for this study and a student company questionnaire. (Project/IQB)

  • Research Design: Other
  • Sample: Students from grade 7 to 10 in Berlin Special Schools with focus on learning (N=4,481); Classes (N=527); Schools (N=101)
  • DOI: 10.5159/IQB_BELLA_v1
  • Restrictions: No

  • Individual and Institutional Background
    • Socio-demographic Background
      • Individual Characteristics
        • Age
    • Professional Background
      • Occupational Situation
        • Satisfaction and workload as a teacher
        • Vocational orientation at school
      • Professional Experience
        • Teacher job
      • Professional Education
        • Vocational education
  • School Level Processes
    • Cooperation
      • Intra-school Cooperation
        • Collegial cooperation in the school
      • Cooperation Outside the School
        • Student company (organization, equipment, satisfaction, relevance)
  • Teaching-Learning Arrangements
    • Class Management
      • Performance Assessment/ Diagnostic Competence
        • Estimation of expected test score within the class
  • School Effects
    • Non-cognitive Learning Outcomes
      • Learning and Performance-related Attitudes (Learning Outcome)
        • Evaluation of achievement behaviour of the taught class
  • Individual and Institutional Background
    • Socio-demographic Background
      • Migration Background
        • Nationality
        • Country of birth
        • Mother tongue
        • Family language
      • Cultural Capital
        • Equipment with domestic cultural goods and valuables
        • Number of books in the home
      • Individual Characteristics
        • Age
        • Sex
        • Date of birth
        • Nationality
      • Family Background
        • Living situation
        • Siblings
        • Highest school qualification of parents
        • Highest professional degree of parents
    • Personal Characteristics
      • Self-Related Attitudes
        • Assessment of one's own computer affinity
        • Attitudes towards computers in general
        • Assessment of one's own Internet affinity
        • Attitudes towards the Internet in general
        • Career aspiration
      • Learning and Performance-related Attitudes
        • Self concept mathematics
        • Self concept German
      • School-related Attitudes and Behaviors
        • Commitment in a student company
        • Days absent from school
        • Tardiness in school
        • Assessment of the work areas in the student company
      • Personality
        • Assessment of personal qualities
    • Professional Background
      • Professional Self Concept
        • Experience of success in general
    • Institutional Characteristics
      • School ICT Usage
        • Computer use in class
    • Educational Biography
      • School attendance
      • Kindergarten attendance
      • Apprenticeship application behaviour (9th/10th grades)
      • Grade level
      • Year of school enrollment
      • Last report card grades
    • Leisure Time Behavior and Media Use
      • Homework Behavior
      • Learning of media applications
      • Computer use
      • Internet usage
      • Private ICT Usage
        • Computer games
        • Learning programs
      • TV Consumption
        • Television/Video/DVD
      • Reading and Writing Habits
        • Books, comics, stories
      • Leisure Activities and Peer Group
        • Job hunting
        • Clubbing
        • Museum visit
        • Theater visit
        • Concert visit
        • Cinema visit
        • Sports activities
        • Musical activities
        • church activities
        • Youth Center
    • Home Learning Environment
      • Household equipment
      • Home Learning Support
        • Support with homework
  • School Level Processes
    • Cooperation
      • Cooperation Outside the School
        • Work in the student company (working hours, tasks, equipment, organisation, working atmosphere, cooperation)
        • Satisfaction with school company
        • Assessment of the teacher support of the student company
        • Right of co-determination in the student company
  • Teaching-Learning Arrangements
    • Lesson Design/ Teaching Practice
      • Handling Homework
        • Frequencies of homework (German, mathematics, other subjects, work studies/student companies)
    • Class Management
      • Professional Support/ Individual Support
        • Special education learning
    • Learning Atmosphere in the Classroom and in the Class Group
      • Classroom Climate
        • Class climate assessment
  • School Effects
    • Metacognitive Learning Outcomes
      • Personal value added by student's company work
    • Non-cognitive Learning Outcomes
      • Learning and Performance-related Attitudes (Learning Outcome)
        • Learning outcome of the school period
      • School-related Attitudes and Behaviors (Learning Outcome)
        • Personal value added by student's company work

  • Action Competence
    • Expertise (Teacher)
      • Diagnostic Skills (Teacher)
        • Diagnostic Skills (Teacher) in math lesson
        • Diagnostic Skills (Teacher) in German lesson
  • Domain-Specific Cognitive Competencies
    • Economic understanding
    • Mathematics Achievement
      • Comparative thinking
      • Basic arithmetic operations
      • Test Instrument Mathematics
        • HST - Hamburger Schulleistungstest
          • für vierte und fünfte Klassen
    • Linguistic Competence
      • Test Instrument Language
        • HST - Hamburger Schulleistungstest
          • für vierte und fünfte Klassen
      • German Language
        • Receptive
          • Reading
            • Reading comprehension
          • Vocabulary, passive (Lexicology)
  • Cross-Domain Cognitive Skills
    • Information gathering from maps, tables, diagrams
    • nonverbal intelligence
    • Problem solving
    • Technical understanding
    • Spatial imagination
    • Test Instrument Intelligence
      • CFT 20-R - Grundintelligenztest
      • in-house development

  • Indicators
    • Bearbeitungsgrad
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Data Set Published on
May 27, 2019
Current Version Available Since
May 27, 2019
Survey Period
2006
Sample
Students from grade 7 to 10 in Berlin Special Schools with focus on learning (N=4,481); Classes (N=527); Schools (N=101)
Survey Unit
  • Teachers
  • Students
Measured Competencies
Reading Skills, Vocabulary, Mathematics Achievement, Cross-domain Cognitive Abilities, Problem Solving Competence
Region
Berlin
Principal Investigators
  • Lehmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. Rainer
Data Producers
  • Brodesser, Dr. Ellen
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Funded by
  • The European Social Fund (ESF)
  • Arbeit-Schule-Integrations-Gesellschaft e. V
Suggested Citation
Lehmann, R. H. & Brodesser, E. (2019). Berliner Erhebung der Lernausgangslagen arbeitsrelevanter Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Förderbedarf „Lernen“ (BELLA) [Berlin Survey of Work-Relevant Basic Competencies of Students with Special Educational Needs in "Learning" (BELLA)] (Version 1) [Data set]. Berlin: IQB – Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. http://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_BELLA_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.

BELLA

Documentation

Here you can find further documentation:

BELLA Scaling Manual

Notes on the use of the data

In the BELLA study, as well as in the ELEMENT and LABEL studies - which are also available at the FDZ at IQB - the same test instruments (originally developed for LAU 5) were used. This results in new analysis potential for the above-mentioned studies in the context of integrative data analysis. We will be happy to advise you on this.

Literature

Selected literature is listed here.

BELLA Literature (.bib)

2019

Forschungsdatenzentrum am Institut zur Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungswesen. (2019). BELLA: Skalenhandbuch zur Dokumentation der Erhebungsinstrumente. https://doi.org/10.5159/IQB_BELLA_Skalendokumentation_v1

2016

Brodesser, E. (2016). Kinder aus zugewanderten Familien in Förderschulen: Vertiefende Auswertung der Berliner Erhebung „BELLA“ zu herkunftsbezogenen Disparitäten (1. ed.). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11400-8

2009

Lehmann, R., & Hoffmann, E. (Eds.). (2009). BELLA: Berliner Erhebung arbeitsrelevanter Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Förderbedarf "Lernen". Waxmann. http://www.ciando.com/ebook/bid-40156