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Measuring the signaling value of educational degrees: secondary education systems and the internal homogeneity of educational groups

Heisig, Jan Paul - In: Large-scale Assessments in Education 6 (2018), pp. 1-35

[BACKGROUND:] By providing high-quality, internationally comparable data on the cognitive skills of working-age adults, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) offers great potential for illuminating the complex interplay of formal qualifications and skills...

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The PIAAC longitudinal study in Germany: rationale and design

Rammstedt, Beatrice; Martin, Silke; Zabal, Anouk; … - In: Large-scale Assessments in Education 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-11

In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and...

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