Social-emotional competences are critical for positive development and significantly predict
educational and occupational attainment, health, and well-being. There is however a lack of …

A growth mindset is a belief that personal characteristics, specifically intellectual ability, are
malleable and can be developed by investing time and effort. Numerous studies have …

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is gaining increasing attention in education policy and
practice due to growing evidence that related constructs are strongly predictive of long-term …

Using PISA test scores from 11,527 second-generation immigrants coming from 35 different
countries of ancestry and living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country …

Policy debates in education are greatly influenced by international differences in test scores.
The presumption is that differences in test scores reflect differences in cognitive skills and …

Complex interactive test items are becoming more widely used in assessments. Being
computer-administered, assessments using interactive items allow logging time-stamped …

Education researchers use surveys widely. Yet, critics question respondents' ability to
provide high-quality responses. As schools increasingly use student surveys to drive local …

There is emerging consensus that Grit's two facets—perseverance of effort and consistency
of interest—are best understood as facets of the Big Five dimension of Conscientiousness …

Females tend to perform worse than males on math and science tests, but they perform
better on verbal reading tests. Here, by analysing performance during a cognitive test, we …

Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and
their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as …