The Survey of Adult Skills is a collaborative endeavour involving the participating countries, the OECD Secretariat, the European Commission and an international Consortium led by Educational Testing Service (ETS). This report was prepared by William Thorn, with the assistance of Vanessa Denis and Sabrina Leonarduzzi.
The international Consortium was responsible for developing the assessment instruments and preparing the underlying data under the direction of Irwin Kirsch.
The development and implementation of the project was steered by the PIAAC Board of Participating Countries. During the implementation of the 3rd Round of the Survey of Adult Skills (2015 to 2019), the Board was chaired by Aviana Bulgarelli (Italy) from 2015, Ted Reininga (the Netherlands) from 2016, Patrick Bussière (Canada) from 2014 to 2015 and Dan McGrath (United States) from 2010 to 2016. A full list of the members of the Board together with the names of the National Project Managers, experts, members of the international Consortium and staff of the OECD Secretariat who have contributed to the project can be found in Annexes C, D and E.