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Sari Metso; Aino Kianto – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify factors that influence vocational students' development of professional skills during workplace learning and to examine the effects and relationships of these factors. Design/methodology/approach: The results were based on the responses of 285 graduating Finnish vocational students. The…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Student Attitudes, Job Skills, Workplace Learning
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences
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Salonen, Pekka; Lepola, Janne; Vauras, Marja – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
In this exploratory study we conceptualized and explored socio-cognitive, emotional and motivational regulatory processes displayed in scaffolding interaction between parents and their non-task and task-oriented children. Based on the dynamic systems view and findings from developmental research, we assumed that parents with non-task oriented and…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Cognitive Processes
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Kupari, Pekka, Ed. – 1986
Focusing primarily on current problem areas in mathematics instruction, this third yearbook of the Finnish Association of Mathematics and Science Education Research contains five articles addressing four themes in mathematics education. The first theme is concerned with proportional reasoning in mathematics teaching and describes school test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computation, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Mathematics