%0 Book Section %1 dahm2016measuring %A Dahm, Gunther %A Lauterbach, Oliver %A Hahn, Sophie %B Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys - The Example of the National Educational Panel Study %C Wiesbaden %D 2016 %I Springer VS %K use:doi:10.5157/NEPS:SC5:4.0.0 from:katjavogel %P 313-329 %T Measuring Students’ Social and Academic Integration - Assessment of the Operationalization in the National Educational Panel Study %U http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658119928?token=prtst0416p %X Dropping out of higher education is a prevalent phenomenon in Germany - about every fourth college student does not graduate - that affects educational returns to a considerable degree. Therefore, dropouts are a topic of major interest in the higher education stage of the NEPS. With the NEPS data, it is possible to study dropouts from higher education with large-scale, nationwide, representative data from a longitudinal perspective. In order to better understand the mechanisms of dropout, the NEPS provides researchers with the opportunity to analyse the role of social and academic integration (Tinto 1975, 1993) - in addition to rational choice-based measures - in the dropout process. Despite the prevalence of the integration concept in the Anglo-Saxon literature, only a few attempts have been undertaken to operationalize and apply social and academic integration to the German context. NEPS Stage 7 tries to close this gap by reassembling and testing several instruments that are well-established in Germany and can be considered to adequately measure social and academic integration. Analyses of factorial and criterion-related validity show that the NEPS provides a parsimonious measure of relevant aspects of students´ integration.

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