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Jan Kalenda; Ellen Boeren – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
International organisations have measured adult learning participation since the 1990s, using surveys like the Adult Education Survey (AES) and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). These surveys employ a 'triadic' classification of learning activities -- formal (FAE), non-formal (NFE) and informal learning…
Descriptors: Classification, Adult Education, Adult Students, Participation
André A. Rupp; Laura Pinsonneault – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
State education agencies are sitting on rich repositories of quantitative and qualitative assessment data. This document is designed to provide a conceptual framework and implementation guidance that can help agency leadership leverage and interrogate student performance data in systematic ways for reporting, outreach, and planning purposes. The…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations
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Ulitzsch, Esther; He, Qiwei; Pohl, Steffi – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2022
Interactive tasks designed to elicit real-life problem-solving behavior are rapidly becoming more widely used in educational assessment. Incorrect responses to such tasks can occur for a variety of different reasons such as low proficiency levels, low metacognitive strategies, or motivational issues. We demonstrate how behavioral patterns…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Problem Solving, Failure, Adults
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Gao, Yizhu; Zhai, Xiaoming; Bulut, Okan; Cui, Ying; Sun, Xiaojian – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
This study investigated how one's problem-solving style impacts his/her problem-solving performance in technology-rich environments. Drawing upon experiential learning theory, we extracted two behavioral indicators (i.e., planning duration for problem solving and human-computer interaction frequency) to model problem-solving styles in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Style, Technology Uses in Education, Adults
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Takashi Yamashita; Giyeon Kim; Chih-Ling Liou; Takatoshi Ando; Anthony R. Bardo; Darren Liu – Adult Literacy Education, 2024
Internationally representative data of middle-aged adults 45 - 65 years old [n(United States) = 2,150; n(Japan) = 2,318; n(South Korea) = 2,800] from the 2012 Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies were analyzed to examine the roles of education and literacy in relation to the digital divide. Results from survey-weighted binary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Information Technology, Communications
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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