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Direct linkRasmussen, Palle; Milana, Marcella; Vatrella, Sandra; Larson, Anne – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
The 'Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies' (PIAAC), developed and managed by the OECD, is an important source of knowledge about adult skills as well as an intervention in the field of education policy. One level of the intervention is the presence of PIAAC results in public media and debate. This article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Mass Media, Intervention
Milana, Marcella, Ed.; Webb, Sue, Ed.; Holford, John, Ed.; Waller, Richard, Ed.; Jarvis, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world. Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach
Cort, Pia; Larson, Anne – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
The results of the first PIAAC survey were published in October 2013. In the case of Denmark, the survey showed that Denmark is below the OECD average when it comes to reading skills, above average with regards to numeracy and on average with regards to IT skills. In this paper we analyse how the PIAAC results were covered by the media and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Green, Andy; Green, Francis; Pensiero, Nicola – Comparative Education Review, 2015
This article examines cross-country variations in adult skills inequality and asks why skills in Anglophone countries are so unequal. Drawing on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's recent Survey of Adult Skills and other surveys, it investigates the differences across countries and country groups in inequality in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Comparative Education, Adult Literacy
Paccagnella, Marco – OECD Publishing, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link between age and proficiency in information-processing skills, based on information drawn from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). The data reveal significant age-related differences in proficiencies, strongly suggesting that proficiency tends to "naturally" decline with age. Age…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Surveys, Adults, Age Differences
Tuijnman, Albert C. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
Judging by their literacy proficiency scores, Nordic countries stand out from others. Their consistently high scores are intriguing and make their populations interesting benchmarks for other countries that participated in the International Adult Literacy Survey. This article addresses the question of whether there are any specific…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Public Support
