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"Knowledge and skills are the most valuable assets to present and future generations, as governments seek to maintain global competitiveness, increase the flexibility and responsiveness of labour markets and deal with issues of population ageing. OECD’s breakthrough survey on adult competencies, PIAAC, will provide governments with a unique and effective tool to assess where they stand in terms of the quantity and quality of the knowledge and skills of their workforce. Equally important, it will provide insights into how skills relate to the social and economic well-being of individuals and nations and also benchmark how effectively education and training systems meet emerging skill demands."
-- Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General --
The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)...
- is the most comprehensive international survey of adult skills ever undertaken;
- is a collaboration between governments, an international consortium of organisations and the OECD;
- will take place across OECD and partner countries in 2011 with results published in 2013;
- will measure the skills and competencies needed for individuals to participate in society and for economies to prosper;
- will help governments better understand how education and training systems can nurture these skills.
The survey will be carried out by...
- interviewing adults aged 16-65 years in their homes – 5 000 in each participating country;
- assessing their literacy and numeracy skills and their ability to solve problems in technology-rich environments;
- collecting a broad range of information from the adults taking the survey, including how their skills are used at work and in other contexts such as the home and the community.
PIAAC builds on previous international surveys of adult skills, allowing literacy levels to be compared over a 13-17 year period for some countries. PIAAC breaks new ground by:
- expanding the range of skills being measured;
- introducing a self-reported measure of the use of skills at work;
- using computers to administer an international assessment of this kind.
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