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The International Adult Literacy Survey: What Does It Really Measure?
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Hamilton, Mary; Barton, David – International Review of Education, 2000
Evaluates the International Adult Literacy Survey (as reported in OECD 1997) from a New Literacy Studies perspective. Criticism of the survey includes charges that: it provides only a partial picture of literacy; culture is treated as bias; and the test items do not represent the real-life items as claimed. Contains 30 references. (PGS)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
The Collective That Didn't Quite Collect: Reflections on the IALS.
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Gomez, Sofia Valdivielso – International Review of Education, 2000
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) has serious limitations. Interpretation of data often manifests an ethnocentric Western attitude, ranking handling of data-based information higher than experiential and contextualized information, and ignoring how people solve problems in their life context. Proposes an alternative model, called…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Assessment
On Defining and Developing Literacy across Communities.
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Bernardo, Allan B. I. – International Review of Education, 2000
Points out the difficulties of defining and operationalizing literacy and literacy development across communities with diverse socioeconomic profiles. Proposes consideration of diverse socioeconomic patterns and level of community (in addition to macro-level of nation-state and the micro-level of individual) to analyze matters relating to literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Assessment
Knowledge, Information and Literacy.
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Roberts, Peter – International Review of Education, 2000
Document addresses political and ethical questions generated by OECD's International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the New Zealand Foresight Project. Calls for further critical work on changing patterns of literate activity in the information age, stressing the importance of contemplating futures other than those driven by imperatives of global…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy
Literacy Skills for the Knowledge Society: Further Results from the International Adult Literacy Survey.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1997
This second report from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) builds on the data analysis of seven countries presented in the first IALS publication in 1995 and adds literacy data for five additional countries--Australia, Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The introduction presents an overview of new key findings and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Education
Literacy, Economy and Society. Results of the First International Adult Literacy Survey.
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1995
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations to describe and compare the literacy skills of people from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country drew a probability sample from which results…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis