| By: |
Anger, Silke (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Bernhard, Sarah (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Dietrich, Hans (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Lerche, Adrian (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Patzina, Alexander (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Sandner, Malte (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany);
Toussaint, Carina (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany) |
| Abstract: |
"Measures to contain the Covid 19 pandemic led to school closures shortly
before and during the Abitur exams in Germany. Therefore, students from the
final high school grade had to revisit their learning arrangements, i.e.
shifting from onsite final exam preparation to home schooling and often from
teacher guided learning to self-administrated learning. Simultaneously
uncertainty about the timing of the final examinations increased because a
public debate about when and whether at all final examinations should take
place arose. Based on the BerO study of the Institute for Employment Research
this report examines the overall life satisfaction, educational plans and the
start in higher education and training programs of the 2020 Abitur cohort. The
overall life satisfaction of the first "Corona Abitur" cohort decreased from
7.3 to 6.8 between the fall of 2019 and the fall/winter of 2020. The observed
decline in overall life satisfaction is atypical. Normally, such decreases in
overall life satisfaction occur after or during dramatic life events like wars
(Coupe/Obrizan 2016), widowhood (Infurna et al. 2017), or after severe
accidents that lead to disabilities (Oswald/Powdthavee 2008)." (Author's
abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) |