Measuring non-cognitive skills in evaluations of education policy interventions is an increasingly important task. At the same time, choosing the adequate measures is difficult. Contrary to cognitive development, there is a shortage of reliable and valid measures of personality and behavioral...

The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...

A lo largo de los años, los avances tecnológicos han producido cambios fundamentales en el mercado laboral, algunas profesiones están desapareciendo, otras se están creando y la mayoría se está transformado. Esto implica que el desarrollo de habilidades laborales también se está...