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Social Outcomes of Learning (SOL)
Tom Schuller
CERI/OECD
OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Istanbul June
2007
Social Outcomes of Learning
• Overall goal: develop and apply frameworks and models for understanding the social outcomes of learning
• Phase 1 objectives:• Map relationships and pathways• Review empirical evidence• Consider indicator development• Identify policy and research agenda
SOL
Main domains• Health (mental and physical)• Civic and social engagement
Horizontal themes:
• Intergenerational effects
• Distribution effects
SOL: Rationale/drivers
• Accountability• Competition on public
expenditure• Values in education• Intersectoral linkages
SOL: Phase 1 Outputs
•Vol 1 - Measuring the Effects of Education on Health and Civic Engagementwww.oecd.org/edu/socialoutcomes/symposium
•Vol 2 - Understanding the Social Outcomes of Education Published June 2007
• Dataset inventory• Indicator issues
SOL: classifying outcomes
(A) Private (B) Public
(1) Monetary
Earnings, income, wealthProductivity
Tax revenuesSocial transfer costsHealth care costs
(2) Non-monetary
Health statusLife satisfaction
Social cohesionTrustWell-functioning democracyPolitical stability
Key relationships linking learning, competence and capital formation
Figure 2.1.
Working life
Social & civic life
Home, family & leisure life
Lifelong
Lifewide
Adult learning contexts
------------------•Adult education
•Firm training•Informal learning
Initial formal education
Lifelong-lifewide learning
Private monetaryoutcomes
Private non-monetary
outcomes
Publicmonetaryoutcomes
Publicnon-monetary
outcomes
Complex interactive and dynamic process over time
Economic and social outcomes
Human capital
Social capital
Competencies
Absolute Education Model
The more education you have
Relative Model
The more education you have vs. the average education your peers have
Cumulative Model
The more education your peers have
Three Causal Mechanisms Linking Education and Outcomes
CompetitivePolitical Activity
Expressive Political Activity
Voting
Voluntary Associations
Institutional Trust
Interpersonal Trust
Cumulative Education Model
Absolute Education Model
Sorting Model (SES)
Education’s impact on Civic Engagement
Conceptual framework: The “self in context” model
Contexts
Self Health Outcome
behaviour, lifestyles and service use
eg, family/household, workplace, neighbourhood
patience, resilience,eg, beliefs,
Education
skills, knowledge
Understanding Outcomes: agenda-setting/ recommendations
• Review public objectives of education systems
• Strengthen the knowledge base: causality; national divergences;
indicators• Explore implications for pedagogy,
assessment and qualifications• Stronger ‘cost-benefit’ analyses• Promote intersectoral dialogue on effects
‘Useful” knowledge issues
• Precision vs ‘certainty’
• Measurable now vs what should count
• Specification and interpretation
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