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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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No. 144 | 26 Oct 2016 |
"Graduate Jobs" in OECD countries
A recurring issue for education policy-makers is the labour market effect of the long-term global mass expansion of higher education, particularly on what is a “graduate job”. The traditional assumption is that graduate jobs are virtually coterminous... |
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No. 143 | 20 Oct 2016 |
The Cost and Benefits of Work-based Learning
Dual apprenticeship training is increasingly seen as an important educational track that provides youth with the skills necessary for a smooth transition into the labour market. However, providing skills at the workplace rather than at (vocational)... |
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No. 142 | 11 Oct 2016 |
Literacy and Numeracy Proficiency in IALS, ALL and PIAAC
This paper analyses proficiency in literacy and numeracy in the countries that have participated in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS, administered between 1994 and 1998), the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL, administered... |
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No. 141 | 05 Oct 2016 |
High-Quality Teacher Professional Development and Classroom Teaching Practices
This paper examines the contribution of high-quality teacher professional development (TPD) to the strategies teachers report using to improve students’ learning in the classroom. What was taught in this TPD, and how it was delivered to teachers is... |
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No. 140 | 05 Oct 2016 |
A Framework for the Analysis of Student Well-Being in the PISA 2015 Study
In 2015, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked students to describe their well-being in addition to collecting information on students’ subject-specific skills. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and details the... |
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No. 139 | 07 Sept 2016 |
United in Diversity: A Complexity Perspective on the Role of Attainment Targets in Quality Assurance in Flanders
This case study explores the role of attainment targets as a means of systemic quality assurance in Flanders (Belgium), an education system whose governance structures and processes are characterised by high decentralisation and the participation of... |
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No. 138 | 10 Aug 2016 |
Conditions and Practices Associated with Teacher Professional Development and Its Impact on Instruction in TALIS 2013
A key lever for improving teaching is provision of effective professional development. This paper uses TALIS 2013 data to consider personal and school-level factors associated with teacher participation in effective professional development and... |
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No. 137 | 07 Jul 2016 |
What Makes a School a Learning Organisation?
What are the characteristics of a school as learning organisation? This paper should be seen as an attempt to work towards a common understanding of the school as learning organisation concept that is both solidly founded in the literature and is... |
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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...
"Graduate Jobs" in OECD countries
Golo Henseke and Francis Green
26 Oct 2016
A recurring issue for education policy-makers is the labour market effect of the long-term global mass expansion of higher education, particularly on what is a “graduate job”. The traditional assumption is that graduate jobs are virtually coterminous...
The Cost and Benefits of Work-based Learning
Samuel Mühlemann
20 Oct 2016
Dual apprenticeship training is increasingly seen as an important educational track that provides youth with the skills necessary for a smooth transition into the labour market. However, providing skills at the workplace rather than at (vocational)...
Literacy and Numeracy Proficiency in IALS, ALL and PIAAC
Marco Paccagnella
11 Oct 2016
This paper analyses proficiency in literacy and numeracy in the countries that have participated in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS, administered between 1994 and 1998), the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL, administered...
High-Quality Teacher Professional Development and Classroom Teaching Practices
Fabian Barrera-Pedemonte
05 Oct 2016
This paper examines the contribution of high-quality teacher professional development (TPD) to the strategies teachers report using to improve students’ learning in the classroom. What was taught in this TPD, and how it was delivered to teachers is...
A Framework for the Analysis of Student Well-Being in the PISA 2015 Study
Francesca Borgonovi and Judit Pál
05 Oct 2016
In 2015, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked students to describe their well-being in addition to collecting information on students’ subject-specific skills. This paper provides a comprehensive overview and details the...
United in Diversity: A Complexity Perspective on the Role of Attainment Targets in Quality Assurance in Flanders
Rien Rouw, Marc Fuster, Tracey Burns and Marlon Brandt
07 Sept 2016
This case study explores the role of attainment targets as a means of systemic quality assurance in Flanders (Belgium), an education system whose governance structures and processes are characterised by high decentralisation and the participation of...
Conditions and Practices Associated with Teacher Professional Development and Its Impact on Instruction in TALIS 2013
Darleen Opfer
10 Aug 2016
A key lever for improving teaching is provision of effective professional development. This paper uses TALIS 2013 data to consider personal and school-level factors associated with teacher participation in effective professional development and...
What Makes a School a Learning Organisation?
Marco Kools and Louise Stoll
07 Jul 2016
What are the characteristics of a school as learning organisation? This paper should be seen as an attempt to work towards a common understanding of the school as learning organisation concept that is both solidly founded in the literature and is...