Postgraduate Researcher
www.birmingham.ac.uk/rita-hordosy
Current Status
PhD, 2nd year (Full Time)
Research Topic
School leavers surveys all over Europe
Research Summary
The PhD aims to analyse and compare national research programmes across Europe that are gathering information on school leavers’ path after compulsory education. The description and comparison will refer to methodological, financial and institutional details as well as the dissemination process and the utilization of the surveys. This new project is ‘researching research’ as it collects information on data production and utilisation in relation to school-leaving. The main issues arising are those connected to measuring and researching within education, and how the data is processed and used later on within the different spheres.
School leavers’ surveys, research programmes which are surveying the students leaving school or graduating, can help to explore the mechanisms of knowledge societies and bring important and relevant information on the processes of lifelong learning. Due to the existing methodological differences in school leavers surveys currently there are limited numbers of comparative and international studies in this area. Via comparing them and pointing out the main similarities and differences the investigation aims to reach a European ‘best practice’ for these types of surveys.
The first phase of the research is a cross-sectional analysis of different school leaver surveys using documents available. In this phase the differences in the survey aims and the purpose of the leavers’ surveys are investigated along with the research design and methodology. From the analysis of the existing surveys a categorization is outlined based on the purpose and the design. The second phase compares several case studies on the school leavers surveys conducted in selected countries. The purposive sampling is based on the categories of surveys outlined in the first phase: the aim is to select at least one survey from each type and analyse it in depth. In the third phase the information is followed via observing it in a school environment: how the data reaches from a school leaver survey the school, and how it is processed in the organisation?
Research Interests
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Educational policy research
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International comparative education
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Research Methodology in Education
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Inequalities in education
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Vocational education
Research Supervisors
Professor Stephen Gorard and Professor Peter Davies
Funding
School of Education Scholarship
Membership of Research and Professional Organisations
HERA (Hungarian Educational Research Association); BERA (British Educational Research Association).
Conferences
Rita Hordósy (2011) School leavers surveys all over Europe. Poster at the University of Birmingham Graduate School Poster Conference 2011, Birmingham
Rita Hordósy (2011) Investigating School Leavers’ Surveys in Europe. Paper at the EERA ECER 2011, Urban Education Conference, Berlin. Link to presentation - http://prezi.com/oj8e8aezmptg/copy-of-copy-of-school-leavers-surveys-all-over-europe/
Rita Hordósy (2011) Investigating School Leavers’ Surveys in Europe. Paper at the School of Education Student Conference, University of Birmingham
Publications
Hordósy, R., Meixner, B., Szabó, F.M. (2011) “Faluról falura tesszük odébb a problémát” – Újváros és térsége (‘We are pushing the problem from one village to another’ – Newtown and the area). In: Györgyi, Z. (eds.) Korlátok között szabadon. Demográfiai folyamatok és a helyi oktatáspolitikák. (Free between barriers. Demographic processes and local educational politics). Budapest: Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet
Hordósy, R. & Király, G. (2011). Pályakövetési tipológia (School leavers survey typolgy). Szakképzési Szemle (Vocational Training Review), 27, 65-79.
Demeter, E., Gero, M., Hajdu, G., Hajdu, T., Hordósy, R., Lakatos, Z., Lorincz, D. & Sáska, G. (2010). Iskolai veszélyek - Az oktatási jogok biztosának vizsgálata (Danger in schools) (Online). Budapest: Oktatási Jogok Biztosának Hivatala. Available: www.oktbiztos.hu/ugyek/iskolai_agresszio_jelentes.pdf [Accessed].
Czető, K., Farkas, A., Hordósy, R., Molnár, B., Orosz, K., Szebényi, S. & Takács, Á. (2010). Összefoglaló jelentés az oktatáskutatás főbb nemzetközi trendjeiről (Report on the main trends of educational research world wide) (Online). Budapest: Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet (Hungarian Institute for Educational Research & Development). Available: www.tamop311.ofi.hu/szakmai-program/8-1/8-1-hatterelemzes-okt (Accessed 05/11/2011).
Hordósy, R., (2010). Miss Marple, a szomorúmanók és a szegénység. Avagy hogyan írt Solt Ottilia a szegénységről, mikor az nem is létezett? (How did Ottilia Solt write about poverty when it 'did not exist'?). In: Demter, E., Dörgõ, B., Hajdu, G., Meixner, B., Nagy, J. P. & Szabó, F. (eds.) Kötetlen - Az ELTE Társadalomtudományi Szakkollégium tanulmánykötete. Budapest: ELTE Társadalomtudományi Szakkollégium. See also: http://tarstudkoli.tatk.elte.hu/files0/K%C3%B6tetlen_2010.pdf
Demeter, E., Gero, M., Hajdu, G., Hajdu, T., Hordósy, R., Lakatos, Z., Lorincz, D. & Sáska, G. (2010). Tanulmány az iskolai agresszióval kapcsolatos felmérésekrol (Study on school aggression). In: Aáry-tamás, L. and Aronson, J. (eds.) Iskolai veszélyek (Dangers at Schools). Budapest: Complex Kiado
Demeter, E., Gero, M., Hajdu, G., Hajdu, T., Hordósy, R., Lakatos, Z., Lorincz, D. & Sáska, G. (2009) Dangers at Schools - An Investigation by the Commissioner for Educational Rights (Online). Budapest: Office of the Commissioner for Educational Rights. Available: www.dipaegyesulet.hu/docs/kutatas_dipa_dangers_at_school.pdf (Accessed 05/12/2011).
Hordósy, R. and Szabó, F. (2009). Elitek újra termelése a magyar közoktatásban (Reproducing elites in the Hungarian education system). Kistáska (Online). Available: http://kistaska.tatk.elte.hu/cikk.php?cikkid=741 (Accessed 05/12/2011).