Non-cognitive skills Personality traits or attributes the importance of which
for cognitive achievement and labour market outcomes
is increasingly recognised although they are not yet
systematically assessed. A broadly accepted
taxonomy of personality traits is the Five-Factor model
or the ‘Big Five’ factors. This model includes the
following factors: (a) agreeableness, or the willingness
to help other people, act in accordance with other
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people interests and the degree to which an individual
is cooperative, warm and agreeable versus cold,
disagreeable and antagonistic; (b) conscientiousness, or the
preference for following rules and schedules, for
keeping engagements and the attitude of being
hardworking, organized and dependable, as opposed
to lazy, disorganized and unreliable; (c) emotional
stability, encompassing dimensions such as nervous
versus relaxed and dependent versus independent,
and addressing the degree to which the individual is
insecure, anxious, depressed and emotional rather
than calm, self-confident and cool; (d) extraversion, or
the preference for human contacts, empathy,
gregariousness, assertiveness and the wish to inspire
people; and (e) autonomy (or openness, openness to
experience), which indicates the individual propensity
to decide and the degree of initiative and control or the
degree to which a person needs intellectual
stimulation, change, and variety. (Source: Brunello &
Schlotter 2011).
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Non-formal education Education that is institutionalized, intentional and
planned by an education provider. The defining
characteristic of non-formal education is that it is an
addition, alternative and/or complement to formal
education within the process of the lifelong learning of
individuals. It is often provided to guarantee the right of
access to education for all. It caters to people of all
ages but does not necessarily apply a continuous
pathway-structure; it may be short in duration and/or
low-intensity, and it is typically provided in the form of
short courses, workshops or seminars. Non-formal
education mostly leads to qualifications that are not
recognized as formal or equivalent to formal
qualifications by the relevant national or sub-national
education authorities or to no qualifications at all. Nonformal education can cover programmes contributing
to adult and youth literacy and education for out-ofschool children, as well as programmes on life skills,
work skills, and social or cultural development.
(Source:UIS 2012).
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