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The International Literacy Survey: How Well Does It Represent the Literacy Abilities of Adults?
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Sticht, Thomas G. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2001
Reviews evidence regarding the content, standards, and use validity of the International Adult Literacy Survey's performance scales and self-assessment scales. Concludes that there are serious questions about the performance scales and that self-assessment data may help identify adults who believe they have poor literacy skills. Suggests that…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries
The Vocational Turn in Adult Literacy Education and the Impact of the International Adult Survey.
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Druine, Nathalie; Wildemeersch, Danny – International Review of Education, 2000
Examines underlying epistemological and theoretical assumptions of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). Concludes that IALS is primarily geared toward enhancing labor-market competencies but should instead make learners co-responsible actors of their own learning process and participants in a democratic debate defining the kind of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Responsibility, Cross Cultural Studies
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