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International Comparisons of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills over Time. Data Point. NCES 2022-005
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Download full textMamedova, Saida; Pawlowski, Emily – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
This Data Point summarizes trends in adult literacy and numeracy skills since the 1990s for the United States and for those countries that participated with the United States in all three international adult literacy studies over the past three decades: Canada, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Results in this Data Point…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adults, Foreign Countries
Rebecca Wheater; Lisa Kuhn; Rachel Classick; Juan Manuel del Pozo Segura; Maria Jose Guevara; Jennie Harland; Jose Liht; Gustavo Henndel Lopes – UK Department for Education, 2024
The Survey of Adult Skills is a product of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) led by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Survey of Adult Skills aims to measure the skills needed by adults to participate in society and for economies to prosper. The 2023 survey assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Numeracy, Problem Solving
Direct linkBillington, Mary Genevieve; Foldnes, Njål – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
The basic cognitive skill of numeracy is a recognized form of human capital, associated with economic and social well being for individuals and for nations. In this study, we explore how occupational complexity relates to proficiency in numeracy, among adults in full-time employment. We operationalize occupational complexity by constructing three…
Descriptors: Correlation, Occupational Information, Difficulty Level, Basic Skills
Barth, Erling; Keute, Anna Lena; Schøne, Pål; von Simson, Kristine; Steffensen, Kjartan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Do skills protect against exclusion in adult ages, and how important are the skills acquired before the age of 16 years versus those acquired later on? We match the scores on numeracy and literacy skills from the 2011 PIAAC for young adults backwards to grade point average (GPA) data from compulsory school education, measured at the age of 16…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Prior Learning, Numeracy, Literacy
Scandurra, Rosario; Alberio, Marco – SAGE Open, 2021
This article explores cross-country patterns in how conditions relating to family background, education, and the labor market are related to literacy and numeracy skills. It seeks to assess whether these patterns are in agreement with models of skills formation as identified in the political economy literature. The novelty of this article resides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Skills, Family Characteristics
Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
We examine if the OECD survey of adult skills, PIAAC, can provide information about the relative quality of education and training in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We find that the average population scores are inappropriate while the mean scores of natives well approximate the skills of individuals that had the chance to attend the…
Descriptors: Scores, Problem Solving, Information Technology, Immigrants
