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The Importance of IALS, ALL and PIAAC Results to U.S. Policy. Commissioned Paper
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T. Scott Murray; Marilyn Binkley – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
This report makes the case for a shift in emphasis in U.S. education and workforce development policy. Specifically, the report sets out a rationale for investing more in upgrading the foundational skill levels of the U.S. workforce. The report summarizes the results of studies that used data from the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey…
Descriptors: Adults, Surveys, Adult Literacy, Labor Force Development
The Evolution of Evidence Problems in Adult Literacy and Numeracy: How Did We Get into the Current Impasse and How Can We Get out of It?
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Carpentieri, J. D. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The field of Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) has an evidence problem. This paper analyses that problem through the lens of three overarching types of evidence available to researchers and policymakers: Type 1 evidence, which provides descriptions of the scope of social problems; Type 2 evidence measuring the impacts of programmes addressing…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Evidence, Social Problems
Literacy and Growth: New Evidence from PIAAC. Commissioned Paper
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Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold; T. Scott Murray – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Results from panel estimations over the period 1970-2010…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Economic Development, Correlation