Success Stories in Transitions

• In Event: Roundtable Session 28

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The symposium deals with transitions and trajectories within a selective schooling system. Selective in this context means students in education systems like ones in Germany or Austria have to decide after four years of comprehensive primary school whether to follow an academic track or a vocational track. The decision means attending separate schools. “Theoretically, the performance of students governs their allocation to the different types of secondary school; however, in practice there are massive social and regional aspects involved in this allocation” (Geppert, Bauer-Hofmann & Hopmann, 2012, p. 14).
A school reform in the stage of Secondary One, where a new kind of comprehensive school was implemented, makes it even more important to focus on aspects within educational transitions and ask how “smooth educational” transitions can be implemented.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Section 4: School Choice and Other Reforms

Chair

• Stefan Thomas Hopmann, University of Vienna

Papers

• How Do Parents Decide? Focusing School Choices in Times of Educational Change - Tamara Katschnig, University of Vienna

• The Importance of Regional Factors for School Choice: An Empirical Linkage of Micro and Macro Levels - Mariella Knapp, University of Vienna

• Constellations of In- and Out-of-School Resources Influencing Students’ Educational Aspirations in New Middle Schools From a Longitudinal Perspective - Michaela Kilian, University of Vienna

• How Do Students With Different Profiles Develop in an Inclusive School Setting? - Corinna Geppert, University of Vienna