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Zehorit Dadon-Golan; Iris BenDavid-Hadar – European Journal of Education, 2025
The knowledge-based economy and the information society highlights the importance of developing new competencies for personal, professional and social integration. Problem-solving in technologically rich environments (PS-TREs) is one of these competencies. This research examines the relationships between higher education and the PS-TREs…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy
Teravainen-Goff, Anne; Flynn, Michael; Riad, Lara; Cole, Aimee; Clark, Christina – National Literacy Trust, 2022
The UK continues to face a huge adult-literacy challenge, with a sizeable percentage of the UK adult population having very low literacy skills. In addition to highlighting the literacy challenge in the UK, this report shows these individuals experience negative impacts on personal relationships, wellbeing, health, and education, as well as a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Risk, Literacy Education, Disadvantaged
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Yamashita, Takashi; Smith, Thomas J.; Sahoo, Shalini; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study highlighted how particular intersections of personal characteristics were related to Motivation to Learn (MtL) among adults. MtL is a prerequisite for adult education and training participation. However, little is known about MtL across subpopulations due to several methodological limitations. This study developed a national profile of…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Age Differences, Educational Attainment, Literacy
Wonmai Punksungka; Takashi Yamashita; Abigail Helsinger; Rita Karam; Phyllis Cummins; Jenna Kramer – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This study examined the associations between adult education and training (AET) participation, educational attainment, literacy skills, gender, and race/ethnicity among the U.S. adult population aged 25 to 65 years old (n = 5,450). Given the socioeconomic advancements of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the last few decades, including higher…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Student Participation, Adult Students, Educational Attainment
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Doo, Min Young; Bonk, Curtis J.; Heo, Heeok – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2021
Problem-solving skills in a digital environment are a prerequisite to a better future for all citizens in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era. To investigate the relationship between age, gender, computer use, and adult learners' problem-solving skills in a digital environment, this study analyzed the 4,540 Korean participants' problem-solving…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Computer Use
Wonmai Punksungka; Takashi Yamashita; Abigail Helsinger; Rita Karam; Phyllis Cummins; Jenna Kramer – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study examined the associations between adult education and training (AET) participation, educational attainment, literacy skills, gender, and race/ethnicity among the U.S. adult population aged 25 to 65 years old (n = 5,450). Given the socioeconomic advancements of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the last few decades, including higher…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Student Participation, Adult Students, Educational Attainment
Leah Katherine Saal; Takashi Yamashita; Ramon B. Goings – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2023
This exploratory analysis documents and examines the differences in the information processing skill proficiencies (low, middle, high) of Black adults in the U.S. (ages 16-74) by key socioeconomic and related demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, education level, employment, health). Illuminating bridges and barriers (factors of success)…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adults, Socioeconomic Status, Age Differences
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Ai Miyamoto; Britta Gauly; Anouk Zabal – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Previous research based on large-scale studies consistently suggests that on average, male students tend to have lower literacy compared to their female students during secondary schooling. However, this gender gap in literacy seems to "disappear" during adulthood. Up until today, only a few studies investigated the role of assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
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Roessger, Kevin M.; Roumell, Elizabeth A.; Weese, James – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
We investigated whether andragogical assumptions and their common critiques are reflected in global PIAAC data using its motivation-to-learn (MtL) and elaboration scales. A preliminary validation study with 300 adults revealed that andragogical assumptions cluster on these scales' two factors. Using hierarchical linear modelling of PIAAC data, we…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Predictor Variables, Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences
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Patterson, Margaret Becker – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
Adults with learning disabilities (LD) face educational and employment challenges and may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Little is known about these adults' numeracy skills and how they use numeracy at work or home. The article's objective was to investigate numeracy skills and skill use for U.S. adults with LD. The author…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Disabilities, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
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Cordie, Leslie A.; Rhodes, Christy M.; Adelino, Lucas; Wooten, Michael C. – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
Today's workplace is going through tremendous changes and becoming highly complex in terms of technology and tasks. Thus, critical problem-solving skills are key to creating a sustainable career in today's global economy. Indeed, the global COVID-19 epidemic has amplified the need for these skills in almost all occupations. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Problem Solving, Job Skills, Adults
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Saal, Leah Katherine; Yamashita, Takashi; Shaw, Donita M.; Perry, Kristen H. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
As recent debates about the role of social media in election outcomes suggest, understanding the association between information processing skills and political efficacy in the U.S. is a significant inquiry for adult and continuing education. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies were used to explore…
Descriptors: Adults, Information Skills, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
Kaul, Corina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Quantitative literacy or numeracy skills are increasingly important at every level in a knowledge-based society. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between numeracy achievement, environmental and intrapersonal characteristics. Although the sample for this study included 5,862 U.S. adults (aged 16-65) from the Program…
Descriptors: Adults, Numeracy, Mathematics Achievement, Individual Characteristics
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Ilgun Dibek, Munevver – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
Response times are one of the important sources that provide information about the performance of individuals during a test process. The main purpose of this study is to show that survival models can be used in educational data. Accordingly, data sets of items measuring literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of the countries participating…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Test Items, Adults, Foreign Countries
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Cook, Rose – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018
Previous research suggests that as societies empower women educationally, gender differences in numeracy skills will decline. Using direct measures of 56,142 adults' numeracy skills from the Programme for International Assessment for Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this article studies whether this claim is evidenced across 20 Organisation for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adults, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
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