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What grades and achievement tests measure
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016
Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580913
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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457900
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Fostering and measuring skills : improving cognitive and non-cognitive skills to promote lifetime success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; Weel, Bas ter; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467567
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039602
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040230
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim - 2014
cognitive skills. Reliable measures of character have been developed. All measures of character and cognition are measures of … cost-effective way. Many of them beneficially affect later-life outcomes without improving cognition. There are fewer long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457917
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Decomposing Achievement Test Scores Into Measures of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Borghans, Lex; Schils, Trudie - 2019
channels through which achievement tests predict future outcomes and providing an approach for objective measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105473
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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim - 2014
IQ tests and achievement tests do not capture non-cognitive skills — personality traits, goals, character and motivations that are valued in the labour market, in school and elsewhere. For many outcomes, their predictive power rivals or exceeds that of cognitive skills. Skills are stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454678
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307980
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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812070