Transition from School to Vocational Training - what matters?
Are grades, cognitive abilities or the applicant’s personality decisive in successfully finding an apprenticeship? Young people with lower secondary school degrees (Hauptschüler) must produce good grades to have a chance in the apprenticeship market. Youths with intermediate secondary school degrees (Realschüler) can, on the other hand, score points with soft skills like conscientiousness. In the new WZBrief Bildung Paula Protsch and Martina Dieckhoff explain more.
On the other hand, cognitive learning potential that is not reflected in educational credentials remains undiscovered in the transition from school to vocational training. This is just as true for young people with lower as well as for those with intermediate secondary school degrees.
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