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Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC): State-Level Estimation for Age and Education Groups Methodology Report. NCES 2022-050
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Li, Jianzhu; Krenzke, Tom; Ren, Weijia; Mohadjer, Leyla; Fay, Robert; Erciulescu, Andreea – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle international survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Numeracy
Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC): County-Level Estimation for Age and Education Groups Methodology Report. NCES 2023-004
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Erciulescu, Andreea; Ren, Weijia; Li, Jianzhu; Mohadjer, Leyla; Fay, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Competence, Basic Skills
Peer Effects and Scholastic Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Estimates Using the Age Sorting Criterion in the Composition of Classrooms
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de Arruda Raposo, Isabel Pessoa; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti; de Menezes, Tatiane Almeida – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This paper evaluates the influence of the classmates' age on individual academic achievement. The identification strategy explores a mechanism for the division of classes based on age homogeneity, with cutoff value determined by the Brazilian law of age at school entry. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates a local average treatment effect of…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries
Classification Agreement Analysis of Cross-Battery Assessment in the Identification of Specific Learning Disorders in Children and Youth
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Kranzler, John H.; Floyd, Randy G.; Benson, Nicholas; Zaboski, Brian; Thibodaux, Lia – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2016
The Cross-Battery Assessment (XBA) approach to identifying a specific learning disorder (SLD) is based on the postulate that deficits in cognitive abilities in the presence of otherwise average general intelligence are causally related to academic achievement weaknesses. To examine this postulate, we conducted a classification agreement analysis…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Youth, Cognitive Ability
Counting Strategies from 5 Years to Adulthood: Adaptation to Structural Features
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Camos, Valerie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
The aim of this study was twofold. First, it evaluated the developmental changes on frequency of use, efficiency, and choice of counting strategies from childhood to adulthood. Second, it determined the adaptation of the counting strategies to the structural features of the task. Participants in seven age groups ranging from 5-year-old to…
Descriptors: Computation, Multiplication, Problem Solving, Arithmetic