NEPS
National Educational Panel Study
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) which was launched in October 2008, examines the competences of people in different age groups across the lifespan. The age range considered in the study ranges from newborns (6 months) to late adulthood.
Project data
| Research lines | Research Line Methodological Research and Machine Learning, Research Line Domain-Specific Learning in Kindergarten and School | ||
| Departments | Mathematics Education, Educational Research and Educational Psychology | ||
| Funding | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe e.V. (1/1/2018–12/31/2022, 1/1/2014–12/31/2016), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (1/1/2009–12/31/2013) | ||
| Period | 1/1/2009–12/31/2027 | ||
| Status | current | ||
| IPN researchers | Dr. Inga Hahn (Project lead), Prof. Dr. Aiso Heinze (Project lead), Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller (Project lead), Tessa Beyer, Dr. Jana Kähler, Dr. Lara Aylin Petersen, Dr. Martin Senkbeil, Beate von der Heydt | ||
| Members of the research alliance | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe e.V. (Lead), DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, IPN Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik | ||
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) which was launched in October 2008, examines the competences of people in different age groups longitudinally across the lifespan. The age range considered in the study ranges from Kindergarten age to late adulthood. The study is carried out on behalf of the BMBF by an interdisciplinary, Germany-wide network under the leadership of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Conduct (LIfBi) at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. The IPN is part of this network and represents the research area competences in the fields of mathematical competence, scientific literacy and computer literacy.
The aim of the National Educational Panel is to collect longitudinal data on competence developments, educational processes, educational choices and educational returns in formal, non-formal and informal contexts across the life span. The NEPS data will be made available to the national and international scientific community as soon as possible in the form of Scientific Use Files (SUF). This data contains great potential for various disciplines (such as demography, education, economics, psychology, sociology) relevant to education and training to learn more about educational attainment and its implications for individual educational processes and to describe and analyze key educational processes.
NEPS is divided into several research areas, which are assigned to the departments of the LIfBi as follows:
Department 1: Competences, personality, learning environments
Department 2: Educational choices and social inequality, migration, educational returns
Department 3: Research data center (FDZ), method development and software development.
