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Direct linkWittner, Britta; Kauffeld, Simone – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
An important factor for First Generation High School students (FGS) in higher education is social capital. To highlight differences in social capital between FGS and their Non-FGS peers (NFGS) by analysing the structure of their ego-centred social networks and its' effect on their career planning, we conducted two cross-sectional studies: on high…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Career Planning, First Generation College Students, High School Students
Jansen, Malte; Boda, Zsófia; Lorenz, Georg – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Social comparisons with peers are important sources of self-development during adolescence. Many previous studies showed that students' academic self-concepts (ASC) form by contrasting one's own achievement with the average of one's class or school (the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect [BFLPE]). Based on social comparison theory, however, we would…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Peer Relationship, Academic Achievement, Social Networks
Benz, Thomas Erich – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research aims at deconstructing and questioning certainties about assessment as an educational institution on its most fundamental levels. To achieve that, I am utilizing theoretical frameworks inspired by concepts on the existence of cultural and social capital, by artifact mediated cognition, and by a recently proposed discipline on…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Teaching Methods, Network Analysis
Stoeger, Heidrun; Hopp, Manuel; Ziegler, Albert – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
Online mentoring provides an effective means of extracurricular gifted education for talented girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Comparative studies on the effectiveness of one-on-one versus group mentoring are lacking, however. The authors investigated this question in the context of a Germany-wide online mentoring…
Descriptors: Talent, Mentors, Females, STEM Education
Heikkila, Eila – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article presents a comparative study of innovation in vocational education and training (VET) in three innovative European countries: England, Finland and Germany. The focus is on innovation emerging from VET practitioners' (directors, teachers, project coordinators, etc.) participation in inter-organisational networks with local, regional,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedSchriewer, Jurgen; Keiner, Edwin – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Examines patterns of institutional organization and communication in education in France and Germany. The science of education is autonomous and philosophically oriented in Germany but is intertwined with sociology, psychology, and other social sciences and is positivistic in nature in France. Overlap between the cognitive textures of the French…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
