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No. 177 | 26 Jul 2018 |
Numeracy practices and numeracy skills among adults
We assess the relationship between numeracy skills and numeracy practices among adults in everyday life and at work from the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an... |
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No. 176 | 16 Jul 2018 |
Structural characteristics and process quality in early childhood education and care
This literature review investigated relations between structural characteristics and process quality in centre and family daycare provisions for children from birth to age 5. Structural characteristics were examined at system, organisational,... |
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No. 175 | 06 Jul 2018 |
Working it out
Career and education decisions are amongst the most important young people make. Gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors all strongly affect these choices. Career guidance is both an individual and a social good: it helps individuals to progress... |
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No. 174 | 28 May 2018 |
What difference do standards make to educating teachers?
This paper reviews evidence on the interplay between professional standards for teachers, the content of teacher education and educational sciences, and provides three case studies to illustrate these interactions from Estonia, Australia and... |
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No. 173 | 27 Apr 2018 |
Social and emotional skills for student success and well-being
In an increasingly fast-changing, complex and diverse world, social and emotional skills are becoming ever more important. In this paper we present an overview of literature on social and emotional skills, describing the nature and structure of these... |
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No. 172 | 29 Mar 2018 |
Understanding innovative pedagogies
Pedagogy is at the heart of teaching and learning. Preparing young people to meet new contemporary challenges means to review and update the pedagogies teachers use. However, despite the increased reporting of teachers and schools that are... |
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No. 171 | 28 Mar 2018 |
Lessons learned from the PISA4U pilot
PISA4U is an online programme developed by CANDENA in association with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which brings together teachers from around the world in order to learn from one another and develop meaningful,... |
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No. 170 | 15 Feb 2018 |
Physical health and well-being in children and youth
This paper provides an overview of trends in physical health outcomes of young people over the last several decades. It makes the argument for the importance of physical health and well-being for the individual and society, including its role in... |
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No. 169 | 09 Feb 2018 |
Emotional well-being of children and adolescents
This paper provides a synthesis of the literature on mental health and emotional well-being of children and adolescents, including an overview on the latest PISA 2015 results where relevant. The paper begins by providing a definition of the terms and... |
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No. 168 | 07 Feb 2018 |
Science teachers’ satisfaction
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student and... |
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No. 167 | 29 Jan 2018 |
Academic resilience
Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students from disadvantaged backgrounds to perform at a certain level in the... |
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No. 166 | 24 Jan 2018 |
Skills for the 21st century
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the findings and policy lessons from the project to date justify the high hopes which... |
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No. 165 | 11 Jan 2018 |
Association between literacy and self-rated poor health in 33 high-and upper-middle-income countries
We assess the relationship between general literacy skills and health status by analysing data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an international survey of about 250 000 adults aged 16-65 years... |
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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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Numeracy practices and numeracy skills among adults
Nicolas Jonas
26 Jul 2018
We assess the relationship between numeracy skills and numeracy practices among adults in everyday life and at work from the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an...
Structural characteristics and process quality in early childhood education and care
Pauline Slot
16 Jul 2018
This literature review investigated relations between structural characteristics and process quality in centre and family daycare provisions for children from birth to age 5. Structural characteristics were examined at system, organisational,...
Working it out
Pauline Musset and Lucia Mytna Kurekova
06 Jul 2018
Career and education decisions are amongst the most important young people make. Gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors all strongly affect these choices. Career guidance is both an individual and a social good: it helps individuals to progress...
What difference do standards make to educating teachers?
Nóra Révai
28 May 2018
This paper reviews evidence on the interplay between professional standards for teachers, the content of teacher education and educational sciences, and provides three case studies to illustrate these interactions from Estonia, Australia and...
Social and emotional skills for student success and well-being
Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko, Miloš Kankaraš and Fritz Drasgow
27 Apr 2018
In an increasingly fast-changing, complex and diverse world, social and emotional skills are becoming ever more important. In this paper we present an overview of literature on social and emotional skills, describing the nature and structure of these...
Understanding innovative pedagogies
Amelia Peterson, Hanna Dumont, Marc Lafuente and Nancy Law
29 Mar 2018
Pedagogy is at the heart of teaching and learning. Preparing young people to meet new contemporary challenges means to review and update the pedagogies teachers use. However, despite the increased reporting of teachers and schools that are...
Lessons learned from the PISA4U pilot
Kari Dreyer, Alexandra Cosma, Iveta Hlinková and Jan Henggeormation
28 Mar 2018
PISA4U is an online programme developed by CANDENA in association with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which brings together teachers from around the world in order to learn from one another and develop meaningful,...
Physical health and well-being in children and youth
Ruth Aston
15 Feb 2018
This paper provides an overview of trends in physical health outcomes of young people over the last several decades. It makes the argument for the importance of physical health and well-being for the individual and society, including its role in...
Emotional well-being of children and adolescents
Anna Choi
09 Feb 2018
This paper provides a synthesis of the literature on mental health and emotional well-being of children and adolescents, including an overview on the latest PISA 2015 results where relevant. The paper begins by providing a definition of the terms and...
Science teachers’ satisfaction
Tarek Mostafa and Judit Pál
07 Feb 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student and...
Academic resilience
Tommaso Agasisti, Francesco Avvisati, Francesca Borgonovi and Sergio Longobardi
29 Jan 2018
Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students from disadvantaged backgrounds to perform at a certain level in the...
Skills for the 21st century
John P. Martin
24 Jan 2018
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the findings and policy lessons from the project to date justify the high hopes which...
Association between literacy and self-rated poor health in 33 high-and upper-middle-income countries
Sujay Kakarmath, Vanessa Denis, Marta Encinas-Martín, Francesca Borgonovi and S. V. Subramanian
11 Jan 2018
We assess the relationship between general literacy skills and health status by analysing data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an international survey of about 250 000 adults aged 16-65 years...
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...