Results
Results in MEZ
All four survey waves were conducted in cooperation with IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) Hamburg: Wave 1 took place in early 2016, with wave 2 occurring in autumn of that year; wave 3 was conducted in summer 2017 and wave 4 in summer 2018. With around 1,800 participants included in the first wave, the sample was then expanded to 2,060 pupils in a total of 75 schools. All were learning English as their first foreign language. Around 850 were learning French and 70 Russian as a second foreign language. A total of 943 participants were attending a Gymnasium (secondary education which prepares pupils for advanced academic study, usually at university). Approximately 55% grew up monolingually with German, 29% had a Turkish- and 17% Russian-language background. Detailed information on the study design, data collection, sample selectivity, invariance measurement and first results can be found in the working papers and first MEZ-publication .
Results in MEZ-2
The follow-up study MEZ-2 leads to new and reliable findings on the reasons for successful (or not) transition from school to vocation or profession, which can contribute to the practical design of this transition. In particular, we anticipate new insights into the problem of differentiating between migration-related and general reasons for (lack of) success. MEZ-2’s special contribution will be to answer questions on the role and function of language and multilingual skills in the transitional process on the basis of substantial language testing and not only on self- or external assessments.