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Download full textT. 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
McKenna, Rosa; Fitzpatrick, Lynne – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
This document summarizes an extensive study of policies and practices in adult literacy and adult basic education in a number of countries undertaken by Rosa McKenna and Lynne Fitzpatrick. The original study contains considerably greater detail and analyses issues on a country-by-country basis. The countries studied--Canada, the Republic of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Quality Control, Adult Literacy
Sticht, Thomas G. – 2000
This paper discusses the use of telephone surveys as a substitute for, or addition to, the use of door-to-door surveys in assessing adult literacy ability. Part 1 addresses issues of validity in adult literacy assessment, including the concepts of construct or inferential validity and action or use validity. Part 2 is a review of related research…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Ability
Bostrom, Ann Kristin; Boudard, Emmanuel; Siminou, Petroula – 2001
The extent to which vocational education and training (VET) policy is nurturing lifelong learning in Sweden was examined through a review of recent policy documents issued by various Swedish government agencies and data from comparative studies compiled by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Adult…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education)
