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Abstract
This article intends to identify the effects of school social capital on the educational plans of students, particularly those staying in school and obtaining an intermediate certificate. It is hypothesised that social capital helps to explain individual educational plans and differences between schools regarding the amount of students with particular educational plans. The analyses are based on a survey of 1638 year 8 Hauptschule students in Germany. The results show that the quality of relationships with teachers is of crucial importance for the educational plans of individual students. Furthermore, differences between schools can be explained by the degree of school expectations. This finding supports the assumption that schools provide different settings, not only for learning processes but also for developing educational aspirations and plans.
Notes
1. Due to the federal structure of the German political system, each federal state has its own educational system.
2. Results can be obtained from the author.
3. The results for the findings estimated for category 3 (Y = US) can be obtained by the author.
4. Theoretically, there might be assumptions on varying slopes in different contexts (for instance, in Rumberger, Citation1995). However, I could not verify this assumption with my set of data. All independent variables in the individual measures are thus estimated as fixed effects. Hence I only try to explicate the differences in the intercept of the dependent variable by school-level characteristics.