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No. 164 | 15 Dec 2017 |
Birthplace diversity, income inequality and education gradients in generalised trust
The paper examines between-country differences in the mechanisms through which education could promote generalised trust using data from 29 countries participating in the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Results indicate that education is... |
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No. 163 | 15 Dec 2017 |
How returns to skills depend on formal qualifications
Using PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) data for 21 countries, we study interrelationships between formal qualifications, cognitive skills, and labour market outcomes, focusing on comparisons between less and... |
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No. 162 | 13 Dec 2017 |
Education policy implementation
This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, building on the literature and... |
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No. 161 | 27 Nov 2017 |
Harnessing Spatial Thinking to Support Stem Learning
Spatial intelligence concerns the locations of objects, their shapes, their relations, and the paths they take as they move. Recognition of spatial skills enriches the traditional educational focus on developing literacy and numerical skills to... |
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No. 160 | 22 Nov 2017 |
Collaboration, alliance, and merger among higher education institutions
Declining student numbers; growing fiscal pressures; and intensified international competition for prestige, research talent and funding, have increasingly made collaborations, alliances, and mergers among higher education institutions a priority for... |
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No. 159 | 11 Oct 2017 |
Understanding teachers' pedagogical knowledge
What is the nature of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge? The Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning Teacher Knowledge Survey (ITEL TKS) set out to answer this question in a pilot study that ran in five countries: Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel... |
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No. 158 | 20 Sept 2017 |
The “CHARM” Policy Analysis Framework
This paper focuses on children with a migration background and conceptualises their migration experience as adversity. The paper adapts the resilience framework to understand how immigrant children can overcome adversity. The paper discusses policy... |
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No. 157 | 31 Jul 2017 |
Personality matters
Personality characteristics shape human behaviour and influence a wide range of life events and outcomes. They do so not only through their direct effects on life outcomes, but also through their indirect effects on other important personal factors... |
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No. 156 | 07 Jun 2017 |
Adaptive problem solving
The set of skills that is required to be a successful citizen in the 21st century is rapidly evolving. New technologies and social systems grow increasingly complex and require individuals to quickly and flexibly adapt to new and changing... |
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No. 155 | 28 Mar 2017 |
Youth in Transition
This paper uses data from PISA and the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to examine the evolution of socio-economic and gender disparities in literacy and numeracy proficiency between the ages of 15 and 27 in the sample of countries that took part... |
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No. 154 | 24 Mar 2017 |
Who Makes It Into PISA?
Of the OECD countries that participate in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Turkey has one of the lowest levels of performance and the highest rates of improvement in PISA scores between 2003 and 2012. New evidence presented... |
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No. 153 | 11 Feb 2017 |
Striking the right balance
For students, apprenticeships are an attractive form of learning as they simultaneously enhance skills and prepare them for jobs and careers. Typically, public authorities organise and fund off-the-job education and training, while employers take... |
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No. 152 | 19 Jan 2017 |
Incentives for apprenticeship
While an apprenticeship is potentially very beneficial to students, employers and economies, many countries face difficulties in encouraging companies to provide apprenticeship places, and individuals to enter apprenticeship programmes. To encourage... |
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No. 151 | 20 Dec 2016 |
Report on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the United States in PISA 2012 mathematics
This paper aims to investigate the performance of the students in the United States in all 84 mathematics items that were administered in the United States as part of the PISA 2012 assessment. It compares the performance of the United States with the... |
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No. 150 | 08 Dec 2016 |
Work-based Learning for Youth at Risk
Work-based learning can provide a bridge into careers and its potential benefits are particularly noticeable for youth at risk – those most likely to face difficulties in accessing jobs and learning opportunities. If this potential is to be fully... |
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No. 149 | 08 Dec 2016 |
Measurement Properties of Non-cognitive scales in the Polish Follow-up Study on PIAAC (POSTPIAAC)
There is a growing literature providing evidence that not only cognitive skills but also non-cognitive skills are important for economic and social outcomes. This paper assesses the measurement properties of the Big Five and Grit scales in a large... |
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No. 148 | 22 Nov 2016 |
Teaching Strategies for Instructional Quality
This report explores the relationships between mathematics teachers’ teaching strategies and student learning outcomes in eight countries, using information from the TALIS-PISA link database. First, the study seeks to understand the shaping of... |
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No. 147 | 11 Nov 2016 |
Regulating Publicly Funded Private Schools
As school choice is an increasingly common feature of OECD education systems, the regulation of publicly funded private schools has become a salient concern for researchers and policy makers alike. Focussing on three areas of regulation – selective... |
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No. 146 | 26 Oct 2016 |
Education, Labour Market Experience and Cognitive Skills
This paper examines how formal education and experience in the labour market correlate with measures of human capital available in The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies... |
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No. 145 | 26 Oct 2016 |
Ageing and Literacy Skills
This paper examines the relationship between age and literacy using data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) and The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the... |
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Birthplace diversity, income inequality and education gradients in generalised trust
Francesca Borgonovi and Artur Pokropek
15 Dec 2017
The paper examines between-country differences in the mechanisms through which education could promote generalised trust using data from 29 countries participating in the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Results indicate that education is...
How returns to skills depend on formal qualifications
Jan Paul Heisig and Heike Solga
15 Dec 2017
Using PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) data for 21 countries, we study interrelationships between formal qualifications, cognitive skills, and labour market outcomes, focusing on comparisons between less and...
Education policy implementation
Romane Viennet and Beatriz Pont
13 Dec 2017
This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, building on the literature and...
Harnessing Spatial Thinking to Support Stem Learning
Nora Newcombe
27 Nov 2017
Spatial intelligence concerns the locations of objects, their shapes, their relations, and the paths they take as they move. Recognition of spatial skills enriches the traditional educational focus on developing literacy and numerical skills to...
Collaboration, alliance, and merger among higher education institutions
Jonathan Williams
22 Nov 2017
Declining student numbers; growing fiscal pressures; and intensified international competition for prestige, research talent and funding, have increasingly made collaborations, alliances, and mergers among higher education institutions a priority for...
Understanding teachers' pedagogical knowledge
Kristina Sonmark, Nóra Révai, Francesca Gottschalk, Karolina Deligiannidi and Tracey Burns
11 Oct 2017
What is the nature of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge? The Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning Teacher Knowledge Survey (ITEL TKS) set out to answer this question in a pilot study that ran in five countries: Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel...
The “CHARM” Policy Analysis Framework
Özge Bilgili
20 Sept 2017
This paper focuses on children with a migration background and conceptualises their migration experience as adversity. The paper adapts the resilience framework to understand how immigrant children can overcome adversity. The paper discusses policy...
Personality matters
Miloš Kankaraš
31 Jul 2017
Personality characteristics shape human behaviour and influence a wide range of life events and outcomes. They do so not only through their direct effects on life outcomes, but also through their indirect effects on other important personal factors...
Adaptive problem solving
Samuel Greiff, Katharina Scheiter, Ronny Scherer, Francesca Borgonovi, Ann Britt, Art Graesser, Muneo Kitajima and Jean-François Rouet
07 Jun 2017
The set of skills that is required to be a successful citizen in the 21st century is rapidly evolving. New technologies and social systems grow increasingly complex and require individuals to quickly and flexibly adapt to new and changing...
Youth in Transition
Francesca Borgonovi, Artur Pokropek, François Keslair, Britta Gauly and Marco Paccagnella
28 Mar 2017
This paper uses data from PISA and the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to examine the evolution of socio-economic and gender disparities in literacy and numeracy proficiency between the ages of 15 and 27 in the sample of countries that took part...
Who Makes It Into PISA?
Nicholas Spaull
24 Mar 2017
Of the OECD countries that participate in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Turkey has one of the lowest levels of performance and the highest rates of improvement in PISA scores between 2003 and 2012. New evidence presented...
Striking the right balance
Małgorzata Kuczera
11 Feb 2017
For students, apprenticeships are an attractive form of learning as they simultaneously enhance skills and prepare them for jobs and careers. Typically, public authorities organise and fund off-the-job education and training, while employers take...
Incentives for apprenticeship
Małgorzata Kuczera
19 Jan 2017
While an apprenticeship is potentially very beneficial to students, employers and economies, many countries face difficulties in encouraging companies to provide apprenticeship places, and individuals to enter apprenticeship programmes. To encourage...
Report on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the United States in PISA 2012 mathematics
Janina Krawitz, Kay Achmetli, Werner Blum, Sebastian Vogel and Michael Besser
20 Dec 2016
This paper aims to investigate the performance of the students in the United States in all 84 mathematics items that were administered in the United States as part of the PISA 2012 assessment. It compares the performance of the United States with the...
Work-based Learning for Youth at Risk
Viktoria Kis
08 Dec 2016
Work-based learning can provide a bridge into careers and its potential benefits are particularly noticeable for youth at risk – those most likely to face difficulties in accessing jobs and learning opportunities. If this potential is to be fully...
Measurement Properties of Non-cognitive scales in the Polish Follow-up Study on PIAAC (POSTPIAAC)
Marta Palczyńska and Karolina Świst
08 Dec 2016
There is a growing literature providing evidence that not only cognitive skills but also non-cognitive skills are important for economic and social outcomes. This paper assesses the measurement properties of the Big Five and Grit scales in a large...
Teaching Strategies for Instructional Quality
Noémie Le Donné, Pablo Fraser and Guillaume Bousquet
22 Nov 2016
This report explores the relationships between mathematics teachers’ teaching strategies and student learning outcomes in eight countries, using information from the TALIS-PISA link database. First, the study seeks to understand the shaping of...
Regulating Publicly Funded Private Schools
Luka Boeskens
11 Nov 2016
As school choice is an increasingly common feature of OECD education systems, the regulation of publicly funded private schools has become a salient concern for researchers and policy makers alike. Focussing on three areas of regulation – selective...
Education, Labour Market Experience and Cognitive Skills
Juan Francisco Jimeno, Aitor Lacuesta, Marta Martínez-Matute and Ernesto Villanueva
26 Oct 2016
This paper examines how formal education and experience in the labour market correlate with measures of human capital available in The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies...
Ageing and Literacy Skills
Garry Barrett and W. Craig Riddell
26 Oct 2016
This paper examines the relationship between age and literacy using data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) and The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the...