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PIAAC attempts to assess and compare the basic skills and the broad range of competencies of adults. It includes cognitive and workplace skills needed for successful participation in 21st century societies and the global economy. By assessing the core skills possessed by adults in participating countries PIAAC will provide information on skills that people use at work and in their everyday lives. Understanding these skills and the ways they are developed and maintained is very useful information for policy makers. The results may have wide-ranging consequences for policy and education planning in the participating countries. Skills Norway participates together with several research organisations in a Norwegian reference group.

Skip to search form Skip to main content You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI: Kirsch Published Psychology. This paper offers a framework that has been used for both developing the tasks used to measure literacy and for understanding the meaning of what has been reported with respect to the comparative literacy proficiencies of adults in participating countries.

It assesses its contribution to understanding literacy in terms of the perspective of the New Literacy Studies. It outlines this perspective as a basis for a critique that is mostly concerned with the validity of the test. Three criticisms of the survey are made: that it provides only a partial picture of literacy; that culture is treated as bias; and that the test items do not represent the real-life items as claimed. Finally, the paper concludes with an overall evaluation of what the IALS achieves in terms of its own aims.