Pathways to success
Subtitle: how knowledge and skills at age 15 shape future lives in Canada
Contributors: Programme for International Student Assessment; SourceOECD (Online service)
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789264077492
Subjects: Youth; School-to-work transition; Education; Employment; Life skills
Other titles: How knowledge and skills at age 15 shape future lives in Canada; How knowledge and skills at age fifteen shape future lives in Canada
Description: This publication presents the findings of Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, which complements OECD's PISA survey and offers significant new policy insights in understanding students' choices at different ages and the impact of these decisions on consequent education and labor market outcomes. YITS is a longitudinal study that tracks 30,000 Canadian students who took part in the PISA 2000 assessment and, with interviews every two years, follows their progress from secondary school into higher education and the labor market.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Programme for International Student Assessment"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118)

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the case for linking PISA with longitudinal studies; title: PISA 2000 and the Canadian context; title: Starting right : Canadian results from PISA 2000; title: Decisions after school : pathways followed by the cohort born in 1984; title: Predicting success : key characteristics of youth affecting transitions to education and the labour market; title: Acquiring human capital : the relationship of PISA reading proficiencies and the pathway to higher education; title: Competent pathways to work : PISA scores and labour market returns; title: Conclusion.