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The Assessment Frameworks for Cycle 2 of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies The OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) represents a comprehensive international comparative assessment of the information processing skills of adults vital for the full participation in social and economic life in the 21st century. PIAAC is now in its second cycle and continues a series of international assessments of adult skills that began in the mid-1990s with the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). The Assessment Frameworks for Cycle 2 of PIAAC provide an essential background for understanding the skills assessed by the PIAAC assessment and for interpreting the results of the study. The Assessment Frameworks define and describe the skills assessed in the study – literacy, numeracy and problem solving – and outline the key features of the assessment of these skills. In addition, the relationship between Cycle 2 of PIAAC and previous assessments of these skills among the adult population is explained and an overview is provided of the changes that have occurred in the conceptualisation of these skills in the different international assessments of adult skills implemented over the last two decades. » Download the PDF
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Skills Matter: Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (Round 3) Based on the results from the 33 countries and regions that participated in the 1st and 2nd round of the Survey of Adult Skills in 2011-12 and in 2014-15, this report describes adults’ proficiency in three information-processing skills, and examines how proficiency is related to labour-market and social outcomes. It places special emphasis on the results from the 3rd and final round of the first cycle of PIAAC in 2017-18, which included 6 countries (Ecuador, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and the United States). » Download the PDF
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The Survey of Adult Skills: Reader’s Companion, Third Edition The Survey of Adult Skills: Reader’s Companion, Third Edition, describes the design and methodology of the survey and its relationship to other international assessments of young students and adults. It is a companion volume to "Skills Matter: Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills". |
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Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (Round 2) This volume reports results from the 24 countries and regions that participated in the first round of the survey in 2011-12 (first published in OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results from the Survey of Adult Skills) and from the nine additional countries that participated in the second round in 2014-15 (Chile, Greece, Indonesia [Jakarta], Israel, Lithuania, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia and Turkey). It describes adults’ proficiency in the three information-processing skills assessed, and examines how skills proficiency is related to labour market and social outcomes. »Download the PDF» OECD ilibrary » Access the tables and charts (Webpackages) |
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The Survey of Adult Skills: Reader’s Companion, Second Edition The Survey of Adult Skills: Reader’s Companion, Second Edition, describes the design and methodology of the survey and its relationship to other international assessments of young students and adults. It is a companion volume to "Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills". |
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OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results from the Survey of Adult Skills (Round 1) |
The Survey of Adult Skills - Reader's Companion
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Skilled for Life? Key Findings from the Survey of Adult Skills
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Technical Report of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) (Third Edition) (2019) Download the full report (NB: 1285 pages) Section 1: Assessment and Instrument Design Section 2: Platform Development Section 3: Field Operations and Quality Control Section 4: Sampling and Weighting Section 5: Data Analysis and Data Products
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Technical Report of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) (Second Edition) (2016) Download the full report (NB: 1232 pages) Section 1: Assessment and Instrument Design Section 2: Platform Development Section 3: Field Operations and Quality Control Section 4: Sampling and Weighting |
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Technical Report of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) (2013) Download the PDF (full Report- NB: Chapter 17 was updated on 1st Sept 2014) Section 1: Assessment and Instrument Design Section 2: Platform Development Section 3: Field Operations and Quality Control Section 4: Sampling and Weighting |
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Literacy, Numeracy and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments - Framework for the OECD Survey of Adult Skills |
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Adults, Computers and Problem Solving: What's the Problem? This report has been partially funded by the European Union. |
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Access the documentation for the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
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