Poland Skilling Up the Next Generation : An Analysis of Poland’s Performance in the Program for International Student Assessment

Facing the prospects of rapid demographic aging and decline over the coming decades, Poland needs a highly skilled workforce to help generate the productivity growth that it needs to fuel continued convergence of its living standards with those of...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	SKILLS LIVING STANDARDS EMPLOYMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM COLLEGE ECONOMIC GROWTH SCHOOL READINESS SCHOOL POLICY SCHOOLING NUMERACY ENROLLMENT GROUPS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE FINAL EXAM LABOR FORCE CAREER GROSS ENROLMENT GENERAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS COMPUTER SKILLS TECHNICAL SKILLS ACCESS TO PRESCHOOL DISCIPLINES THINKING EXAMS EXAM EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES LITERACY UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMS TRAINING GRADUATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS CURRICULUM CONTENT ABILITY AGING SECONDARY SCHOOL OLDER WORKERS PRIMARY SCHOOLING NEEDS COMPETENCIES STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT LEARNING GRADUATES EDUCATION SYSTEM RESEARCH SCIENCE STUDY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN TEST SCORES UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS PROBLEM SOLVING KINDERGARTEN OLD STUDENTS READING SUBJECTS HUMAN CAPITAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT STUDY ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE WORKERS QUALITY PRESCHOOL SCIENCE STUDENT PROFESSIONAL LIFE SCHOOLS AGE CURRICULA GENDER LEARNING OUTCOMES LIFELONG LEARNING CHILDHOOD SCHOOL TYPES STUDENT PERFORMANCE COMPETENCE SKILLED WORKFORCE ENROLLMENT RATE ENTRANCE EXAM ACHIEVEMENT PUBLIC EXPENDITURES EXPENDITURES EARLY CHILDHOOD YOUTH LOWER SECONDARY STUDENT ASSESSMENTS SCHOOL SYSTEMS CURRICULUM QUALITY OF LIFE TEACHER INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT UPPER SECONDARY BASIC LITERACY COGNITIVE SKILLS CHILDREN EDUCATION LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL ASSESSMENT METHODS PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS RURAL AREAS BASIC SKILLS PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS YOUNG PEOPLE GIRLS PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS EXPENDITURES PER STUDENT NET ENROLLMENT NET ENROLLMENT RATE ADMISSION CRITERIA CLASSROOM LOGICAL THINKING SCHOOL SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENT LEARNING SOCIAL MOBILITY PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25518729/poland-skilling-up-next-generation-analysis-poland’s-performance-program-international-student-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23331

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Summary:	Facing the prospects of rapid demographic aging and decline over the coming decades, Poland needs a highly skilled workforce to help generate the productivity growth that it needs to fuel continued convergence of its living standards with those of its West European neighbors. Skilling up the workforce starts with equipping youth with the right cognitive and socio-emotional foundation skills. International research has identified three dimensions of skills that matter for good employment outcomes and economic growth: cognitive skills, such as literacy, numeracy, and creative and critical thinking or problem solving; socio-emotional skills and behavioral traits, such as conscientiousness, grit, and openness to experience; and job- or occupation-specific technical skills, such as the ability to work as an engineer. This report focuses on cognitive skills. It examines results for Poland from the program for international student assessment (PISA), which assesses the mathematics, reading, and science competencies of 15-year-olds. The overall effects of reform on Poland’s PISA scores have been positive, although isolating the precise impact of each reform element is difficult. There is evidence from PISA assessments replicated for older students in upper-secondary education in 2006, 2009 and 2012 that performance gaps previously found between vocational and general schools for 15-year-olds prior to the 1999 reform persist today in upper secondary education, where the performance of students in vocational upper-secondary schools trails that of their peers in general education.

Poland Skilling Up the Next Generation : An Analysis of Poland’s Performance in the Program for International Student Assessment

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