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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
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Laursen, Helle Pia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
In a Danish context, the acquisition of literacy by the "bilingual student" is embedded in an education policy discourse in which literacy is seen as a cognitive competence that can be quantified by measuring a number of specific skills in a defined language and in a defined written language. On the basis of empirical data from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning