Fostering and Measuring Skills - OECD

Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime success Tim Kautz, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel, Lex Borghans Directorate for Education and Skills Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). Education and Social Progress Fostering AND Measuring Skills : IMPROVING COGNITIVE AND. NON-COGNITIVE Skills TO PROMOTE. LIFETIME success . This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. Photo credits: Shutterstock You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of the source and copyright owner is given.

Second, when evaluating skill enhancement programmes it is vital to consider outcomes other than IQ or achievement test scores. Only interventions that start long before kindergarten begins have been shown to have long-term effects on IQ. If IQ were the only measure of success, most intervention programmes would seem futile.

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