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Download full textLi, Jianzhu; Krenzke, Tom; Ren, Weijia; Mohadjer, Leyla; Fay, Robert; Erciulescu, Andreea – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle international survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Numeracy
Erciulescu, Andreea; Ren, Weijia; Li, Jianzhu; Mohadjer, Leyla; Fay, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Competence, Basic Skills
Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Khatiwada, Ishwar; Kirsch, Irwin; Sands, Anita – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2022
In this new policy report, the fourth in a series examining the impact of human capital in the American labor market from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Center for Research on Human Capital Education, the authors take a unique perspective on the critical link between human capital and labor market outcomes by expanding the analysis to…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Human Capital, Job Skills, Unemployment
Sands, Anita M.; Goodman, Madeline J.; Kirsch, Irwin; Dreier, Kelsey – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2021
We know that opportunities exist in the United States, but if we hope to share these more equitably, we need to better understand the ways opportunities currently vary among individuals, families, states, and regions of the country. Using key measures of well-being (including poverty, income, employment, safety, and health) for each state, along…
Descriptors: Well Being, Poverty, Income, Employment Level
Mamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
Using the data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this Data Point summarizes the number of U.S. adults with low levels of English literacy and describes how they differ by nativity status and race/ethnicity. PIAAC is a large-scale international study of working-age adults (ages 16-65) that assesses…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, English, Racial Differences
Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Ishwar Khatiwada; Kirsch, Irwin; Sands, Anita; Hanover, Larry – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2019
Diploma and degree completion have become the fundamental standard for judging the performance of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions. Increasingly, leaders of education and workforce policy and programs assume that these measures of attainment effectively serve as indicators of adequate levels of essential literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy, Educational Attainment
