Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys: The Example of the National Educational Panel Study

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The National Educational Panel Study: Milestones of the Years 2006 to 2015....Pages 3-18
Analytic Strategies for the Study of Adaptation to Major Life Events: Making the Most of Large-Scale Longitudinal Surveys....Pages 19-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Weighting Panel Cohorts in Institutional Contexts....Pages 39-62
Variance Estimation with Balanced Repeated Replication: An Application to the Fifth and Ninth Grader Cohort Samples of the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 63-84
Challenges in Gaining Access: The School Cohorts of the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 85-98
Cooperation and Communication Within Scientific Organizations: The Role of Survey Coordination....Pages 99-110
The Concept of Individual Retracking in NEPS—Approach, Practice, and First Empirical Evidence From Starting Cohorts 3 and 4....Pages 111-132
Challenges and Intentions of Target-Specific Public Relations Work....Pages 133-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Video-Based Assessment and Rating of Parent-Child Interaction Within the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 151-167
Measuring Personality Traits of Young Children— Results From a NEPS Pilot Study....Pages 169-180
Measuring Self-Concept in the NEPS....Pages 181-193
Identifying Immigrants and Their Descendants in the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 195-211
Measuring Health in a Longitudinal Education Study....Pages 213-232
The Standard Stress Scale (SSS): Measuring Stress in the Life Course....Pages 233-249
Validity of Survey Data of Students with Special Educational Needs— Results From the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 251-266
The Conceptualization, Development, and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring the Formal Learning Environment in Higher Education....Pages 267-290
Social Capital, Participation in Adult Education, and Labor Market Success: Constructing a New Instrument....Pages 291-312
Measuring Students’ Social and Academic Integration—Assessment of the Operationalization in the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 313-329
Why Do We Collect Data on Educational Histories Over the Life Course the Way We Do ? Core Questionnaire Design Decisions in Starting Cohort 6—Adults....Pages 331-347
Collecting Life-Course Data in a Panel Design: Why and How We Use Proactive Dependent Interviewing....Pages 349-366
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Data-Revision Module—A Beneficial Tool to Support Autobiographical Memory in Life-Course Studies....Pages 367-384
Measurement of Further Training Activities in Life-Course Studies....Pages 385-397
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Selecting Appropriate Phonological Awareness Indicators for the Kindergarten Cohort of the National Educational Panel Study:A Theoretical and Empirical Approach....Pages 401-425
Assessing Spelling Competence Development in the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 427-439
Assessment of Immigrant Students’ Listening Comprehension in Their First Languages (L1) Russian and Turkish in Grade 9: Test Construction and Validation....Pages 441-463
Metacognitive Knowledge in Young Children: Development of a New Test Procedure for First Graders....Pages 465-484
Including Students With Special Educational Needs in the Competence Assessment of the NEPS—Results on the Comparability of Test Scores in Reading....Pages 485-501
Estimation of Plausible Values Considering Partially Missing Background Information: A Data Augmented MCMC Approach....Pages 503-521
Scoring of Complex Multiple Choice Items in NEPS Competence Tests....Pages 523-540
Front Matter....Pages 541-541
Measurement of Preschool Quality Within the National Educational Panel Study—Results of a Methodological Study....Pages 543-560
Reading-Aloud Versus Self-Administered Student Questionnaires: An Experiment on Data Quality....Pages 561-578
Quality Assurance in the Context of Data Collection....Pages 579-593
Front Matter....Pages 595-595
Data Dissemination, Documentation, and User Support....Pages 597-609
RemoteNEPS—An Innovative Research Environment....Pages 611-626
Management of Metadata: An Integrated Approach to Structured Documentation....Pages 627-647
Applied Large-Scale Data Editing....Pages 649-667
Life-Course Data and the Longitudinal Classification of Education....Pages 669-690
Disclosing the National Educational Panel Study....Pages 691-708
String Coding in a Generic Framework....Pages 709-726
Visualizing Life Courses With the TrueTales View....Pages 727-741