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The Acquisition Of Adult Skills In Oecd Countries : Individual And Societal Antecedent, Suehye Kim
The Acquisition Of Adult Skills In Oecd Countries : Individual And Societal Antecedent, Suehye Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Using the OECD the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIACC), the World Bank open data, the OECD data lab, and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, this study sets forth two conceptual frameworks to examine the effect of education on adult basic literacy and problem solving skills in technology-rich contexts. Based on a traditional approach to adult skills, this study explored how a differentiated form of initial education influences the acquisition of basic literacy and numeracy. Second, it build a proposed model assessing the effect of post-initial learning on problem solving skills in technology-rich contexts given that adults are required …