The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the
International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the …

Abstract Background Learning Analytics (LA) is an emerging field concerned with
measuring, collecting, and analysing data about learners and their contexts to gain insights …

Education is associated with a wide range of positive outcomes such as higher wages and
employability, but also with increased well-being or volunteering. While previous research …

In this commentary, the authors review one area of federal policy, adult basic education
policy, since its inception in the 1960s as an example of how educational policy can drift …

The association between parental SES and children's educational outcomes is one of the
key topics in stratification research. Although most differences between social groups are …

What makes a literate person? What leads to literacy gains and losses within and between
individuals and countries? This paper provides new evidence that helps answer these …

Volunteering, STEM education and occupation, and information-processing skills such as
literacy, numeracy, and digital problem-solving skills are important indicators of a nation's …

Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with
unintended pregnancies, including mistimed pregnancies (MP) and unwanted pregnancies …

Objective To describe different domains of participation such as productive, leisure and
social activities and describe sociodemographic and spinal cord injury (SCI)-related …

Recent economic diversifications of Kazakhstan from over-reliance on the extraction of
natural resources are mainly based on increasing the quality of human capital by building a …