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Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students' Achievement : Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …
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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023
We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J. - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills : A Cross-Cohort Comparison
Attanasio, Orazio - 2020
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify two dimensions of socio-emotional skills: 'internalising'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837318
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Widening the High School Curriculum to Include Soft Skill Training : Impacts on Health, Behaviour, Emotional Wellbeing and Occupational Aspirations
Lordan, Grace - 2019
From 2020 Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education will be compulsory in UK schools for adolescents, however less is known about how it can be taught in a an effective manner. We examine, through a randomised trial, the impact of an evidenced based health related quality of life (HRQoL)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867151
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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
Acosta, Pablo A. - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013598
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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2014
The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049744
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Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs : Evidence from a Large-Scale Rct
Schlosser, Analia; Shanan, Yannay - 2022
The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a large-scale randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of an Active Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083836
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Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence Across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes
Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We build on … machine-learning categorized skill requirements and cover the Swiss job market in great detail across occupations (from 1950 … 2019). We examine lifelong learning effects for "harder" versus "softer" occupations, thereby analyzing the role of …
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How School Principals Influence Student Learning
Dhuey, Elizabeth - 2014
Many studies examine the importance of teachers in students' learning, but few exist on the contribution of principals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058323