Assessing Adults' Skills on a Global Scale: A Joint Analysis of Results from PIAAC and STEP. OECD Education Working Papers. No. 230

Autor/inn/en	Keslair, François; Paccagnella, Marco
Institution	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (France)
Titel	Assessing Adults' Skills on a Global Scale: A Joint Analysis of Results from PIAAC and STEP. OECD Education Working Papers. No. 230
Quelle	(2020), (54 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1993-9019
DOI	10.1787/ae2f95d5-en
Schlagwörter	Adults; Skills; Surveys; Global Approach; Employment; Comparative Analysis; Developing Nations; Developed Nations; Foreign Countries; Differences; Data Collection; Computation; Reading Tests; Test Validity; Adult Literacy; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Caribbean; Europe; North America; Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Skill; Fertigkeit; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Globales Denken; Dienstverhältnis; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Ausland; Unterscheiden; Data capture; Datensammlung; Lesetest; Testvalidität; Afrika; Asien; Lateinamerika; Europa; Nordamerika
Abstract	This paper illustrates similarities and differences between two international surveys that assess adults' skills: the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity (STEP) survey. In particular, the paper highlights the issues that can arise for researchers interested to jointly analyse the data from the two surveys and to compare their results. The paper finds that, in spite of the many similarities, important differences exist between PIAAC and STEP, both in the way the data are collected, and in the way the proficiency of respondents is estimated. These issues can indeed affect the cross-country comparability of results from the two surveys. There is instead little evidence that the literacy assessment used in the two surveys is not adequate to form a basis for a valid assessment of adults' proficiency on a global scale. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01