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Pathways to success : how knowledge and skills at age 15 shape future lives in Canada.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Series:
- PISA, 19963777.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Canada.
- Education.
- Life skills--Canada.
- Life skills.
- School-to-work transition--Canada.
- School-to-work transition.
- Youth--Employment--Canada.
- Youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 p.)
- Other Title:
- How knowledge and skills at age 15 shape future lives in Canada
- How knowledge and skills at age fifteen shape future lives in Canada
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, France : OECD, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents the findings of Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, which complements OECD's PISA survey and offers significant new policy insights in understanding students’ choices at different ages and the impact of these decisions on consequent education and labour market outcomes. YITS is a longitudinal study that tracks 30 000 Canadian students who took part in the PISA 2000 assessment and, with interviews every two years, follows their progress from secondary school into higher education and the labour market.
- Contents:
- Annex A – COUNTRIES OTHER THAN CANADA IMPLEMENTING A LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH COMPONENT WITH PISA
- Annex B – TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND DATA TABLES FOR CHAPTER 5
- Conclusion
- Competent Pathways to Work: PISA Scores and Labour Market Returns
- References
- Executive Summary
- Acquiring Human Capital: The Relationship of PISA Reading Proficiencies and the Pathway to Higher Education
- Decisions After School: Pathways Followed by the Cohort Born in 1984
- Predicting Success: Key Characteristics of Youth Affecting Transitions to Education and the Labour Market
- Starting Right: Canadian Results from PISA 2000
- Introduction: The Case for Linking PISA with Longitudinal Studies
- PISA 2000 and the Canadian Context.
- Notes:
- "Programme for International Student Assessment".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-57268-7
- 9786612572685
- 92-64-08192-5
- OCLC:
- 808998863
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