Beyond literacy: The incremental value of non-cognitive skills

This paper reviews a number of previous studies that have investigated how measure of non-cognitive skills predict important life outcomes such as educational attainment, employment, earnings, and self-reported health and life satisfaction. All reviewed studies analyse data from large-scale surveys...

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Main Author: Rammstedt, Beatrice (Author)
Other Authors: Lechner, Clemens M.. (Contributor), Danner, Daniel (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2024
Series:OECD Education Working Papers
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This paper reviews a number of previous studies that have investigated how measure of non-cognitive skills predict important life outcomes such as educational attainment, employment, earnings, and self-reported health and life satisfaction. All reviewed studies analyse data from large-scale surveys from multiple countries and rely on the Big-Five framework to assess non-cognitive skills. The paper finds that measures of non-cognitive skills are robustly and consistently associated to indicators of life success in youth and adulthood, and have incremental predictive power over traditional measures of cognitive ability
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (26 Seiten) 21 x 28cm
DOI:10.1787/7d4fe121-en