Session Information
09 SES 06 B, Transitions in the Education System: Conditions and Consequences
Paper Session
Contribution
The paper describes an empirical longitudinal study carried out in Lower Austria, from 2010 to 2014. The "Lower Austrian school model" (noesis) is an educational approach that seeks to mitigate the problems of transition from primary to secondary education through the development of teaching and school quality and to ensure better educational opportunities for all. Learning and increased learning, reflection on learning processes, portfolio work, etc. are listed next to "school as a place of learning" as targets for the classroom. Other main points are: transition, collaboration with partner schools, preparation for secondary school, as well as site-specific implementation of student-centered work, project-oriented lessons, tracking, support systems, the introduction of new time structures, the formation of teacher teams and child-parent-teacher talks (KEL) (http://www.neuemittelschule.at)
The documentation and evaluation of the school model aims to show whether and how the educational goals of actual implementation are reached and focuses on the opportunities that the implentation opens for the pupils concerned. For the success of this model it is important to document and evaluate its implementation and effects in everyday school life.
Above all, it is important to determine which opportunities for learning may be opened to the students concerned.. The Research Unit for Education and Human Development, University of Vienna, supports this project “noesis” through evaluation. The evaluation design was developed in collaboration with the Board of Education of Lower Austria.
The main research questions of the “transition project” are “What are the conditions that influence school trajectories - from the perspective of those affected by/involved with the school (pupils, parents, teachers)?” and “What are the conditions that influence school choice - from the perspective of those affected by/involved with the school (pupils, parents, teachers)?”
In May 2010 the first survey was carried out at 43 Lower Austrian primary schools (pupils, teachers, parents). Thematically this survey covered the students’ current well-being in the classroom, their expectations of the new school and their career aspirations. Parents were asked about their educational aspirations for their children and their school choices on behalf of their children, as well as their wishes for and expectations of secondary school. Teachers provided information about students’ behavior in class, their prognoses regarding the future career of the child and they made recommendations. In October 2010, the second survey at the lower secondary (HS, NMS, Gymnasium) investigated how students, parents and teachers perceive the transition from primary to secondary level, and in addition the intelligence of the students using a standardized procedure was recorded. Additionally, resource and socioeconomic data, as well as data on after-school activities of the students were compiled. Due to findings of Ditton (2007), who discovered that the region in which schools were located mattered, the study also integrates socio-geographical data on the Lower-Austrian locations.
The long-term study will follow the students in three cohorts of approximately 1500 students until the end of compulsory schooling and collect impressions of attitudes to school. In the end, there should be a whole picture about factors that influence school careers and school transitions.
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