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<p>Educational aspirations play an important role in shaping students’ educational trajectories and destinations. Drawing on longitudinal data from the TREE2 study, this paper investigates the effect of tracking on the formation and adjustment of the educational aspirations of Swiss students upon leaving compulsory school. We show that educational aspirations are highly responsive to the educational track attended in upper secondary education. While students in general education tend to stick to their aspirations, their counterparts in vocational programmes exhibit less stable aspirations.</p>
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Educational aspirations play an important role in shaping students’ educational trajectories and destinations. Drawing on longitudinal data from the TREE2 study, this paper investigates the effect of tracking on the formation and adjustment of the educational aspirations of Swiss students upon leaving compulsory school. We show that educational aspirations are highly responsive to the educational track attended in upper secondary education. While students in general education tend to stick to their aspirations, their counterparts in vocational programmes exhibit less stable aspirations.

Diverging Educational Aspirations Among Compulsory School-Leavers in Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Educational aspirations play an important role in shaping students’ educational trajectories and destinations. Drawing on longitudinal data from the TREE2...

Diverging Educational Aspirations Among Compulsory School-Leavers in Switzerland

Publié en ligne: 18 août 2023

Pages: 339 - 366

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0018

Mots clés
Educational aspirations, tracking, upper secondary education, panel data, Switzerland

© 2023 Tobias Ackermann et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Diverging Educational Aspirations Among Compulsory School-Leavers in Switzerland

Publié en ligne: 18 août 2023

Pages: 339 - 366

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0018

Mots clésEducational aspirations, tracking, upper secondary education, panel data, Switzerland

© 2023 Tobias Ackermann et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Educational aspirations, tracking, upper secondary education, panel data, Switzerland