Factors of attainment of education, 1973

The research includes data on the social origin and family environment of the students, on their school success, extracurricular activities, interests, professional wishes and educational aspirations, inclusion in further education and success in continuing education, as well as results on tests of abilities (intelligence and creativity) and personality tests. In addition, it also includes the evaluations of the teachers and the views of the mothers of the students regarding their schooling, as well as data on their educational styles. These data are supplemented and upgraded in the individual phases of the research, whereby we have to distinguish first the standard data from the Career Selection Survey and the results of group testing with tests of mental abilities, then the results of three different questionnaires and a creativity test ("Uses of objects"), the results of the postal surveys on the success of continuing education and the results of a questionnaire on parenting styles for mothers of students, and finally data on inclusion in higher and higher education institutions. Before the research itself, a pre-test was conducted, in which a group of students who joined further education despite relatively low intellectual abilities were compared with another group who joined education despite relatively high abilities. Here, in addition to the above-mentioned data, the qualification structure of teachers in primary schools was also taken into account.