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Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
We examine if the OECD survey of adult skills, PIAAC, can provide information about the relative quality of education and training in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We find that the average population scores are inappropriate while the mean scores of natives well approximate the skills of individuals that had the chance to attend the…
Descriptors: Scores, Problem Solving, Information Technology, Immigrants
Milana, Marcella; Sorensen, Tore Bernt – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The article presents selected findings from in-depth case studies of two non-formal learning activities organized by the Danish Folk High Schools and Day High Schools, respectively. The purpose of the empirical study was to investigate how longstanding, non-formal, adult education institutions have worked to foster the acquisition of civic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Activities, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Tanggaard, Lene; Elmholdt, Claus – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between assessment and learning through an empirical study of apprenticeship training. The paper suggests that well-established modes of learning, which facilitate meaningful assessment in apprenticeship training, present an "antidote" to a traditional emphasis on assessment as selection and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Nordenbo, Sven Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Thirty-nine adult computer novices in Denmark were interviewed and observed to determine the nature of their global understanding of information technology. Three assessment types, three coping strategies, and four categorical frameworks for understanding were identified. A new methodology for testing the validity of qualitative analyses is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Attitude Measures, Computer Literacy
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Hake, Barry J. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Explores the meeting ground between Christian Socialist and Social Democratic ideas and practices in the development of adult education between 1900 and 1930 in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, focusing on cross-cultural dissemination and reception of Christian Socialism and the influence of the Woodbrooke Settlement in the United Kingdom and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational History, Educational Principles