Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 5 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 9 |
Descriptor
| Foreign Countries | 9 |
| Predictor Variables | 9 |
| Educational Attainment | 4 |
| Literacy | 4 |
| Outcomes of Education | 4 |
| Adults | 3 |
| Educational Environment | 3 |
| Job Satisfaction | 3 |
| Numeracy | 3 |
| Problem Solving | 3 |
| Statistical Analysis | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Apter, Alan | 1 |
| Balazs, Judit | 1 |
| Balint, Maria | 1 |
| Bobes, Julio | 1 |
| Brunner, Romuald | 1 |
| Carli, Vladimir | 1 |
| Castejón, Alba | 1 |
| Conlon, Gavan | 1 |
| Corcoran, Paul | 1 |
| Cosman, Doina | 1 |
| Danner, Daniel | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 8 |
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 2 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 3 |
| Postsecondary Education | 3 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Estonia | 9 |
| Germany | 9 |
| Ireland | 9 |
| Italy | 9 |
| Spain | 9 |
| Denmark | 8 |
| Netherlands | 8 |
| Norway | 8 |
| Sweden | 8 |
| Austria | 7 |
| Belgium | 7 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Program for the International… | 2 |
| Program for International… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkYalcin, Seher – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This study aims to identify the literacy skills of individuals whose highest level of education was in the field 'teacher training and educational sciences'. The study sample comprised 10,618 individuals in the field of teacher training and educational sciences, selected from 31 countries (participating in the International Adult Skills Assessment…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Educational Attainment, Adults
Zhan, Meng – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This article models the migration flow of EEA students who graduated from masters and doctoral programmes in UK universities. The increased intra-European mobility of students and graduates is claimed to have crucial positive influence on building Europe's high-skill labour force, which in turn would strengthen its competency in the global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Migration, College Graduates
Danner, Daniel; Lechner, Clemens M.; Rammstedt, Beatrice – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This paper presents one of the first cross-nationally comparative studies on the economic and social returns to grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals). Specifically, we investigated whether grit incrementally predicted objective (income) and subjective (job satisfaction) career success over and above cognitive skills and educational…
Descriptors: Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Success, Income
Lane, Marguerita; Conlon, Gavan – OECD Publishing, 2016
Using the 2012 PIAAC data, our analysis confirms that there are significantly higher earnings and employment returns to "both" increasing levels of formally recognised education, and to increasing levels of numeracy, literacy and information and communication technologies (ICT) skills proficiencies controlling for the level of education.…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Computer Literacy, Employment
Smith, Thomas J.; Rose, Amy D.; Ross-Gordon, Jovita M.; Smith, M. Cecil – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The present study examined an international sample of adults from the Survey of Adult Skills administered by the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009) to assess (1) how specific individual and country-level characteristics predict adult readiness to…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Readiness, Global Approach, Individual Characteristics
Castejón, Alba; Zancajo, Adrián – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Individualized Programs
Green, Andy; Green, Francis; Pensiero, Nicola – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines cross-country variations in adult skills inequality and asks why skills in Anglophone countries are so unequal. Drawing on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent Survey of Adult Skills and other surveys, it investigates the differences across countries and country groups in inequality in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Comparative Education, Adult Literacy
Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
Download full textInternational Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
