OECD Skills Studies The Survey of Adult Skills Reader’s Companion, Third Edition

OECD Skills Studies The Survey of Adult Skills Reader’s Companion, Third Edition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264385134

This edition of the Reader’s Companion accompanies Skills Matter: Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills that reports the results from the 39 countries and regions that participated in the 3 rounds of data collection in the first cycle of PIAAC, with a particular focus on the 6 countries that participated in the third round of the study (Ecuador, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and the United States). It describes the design and methodology of the survey and its relationship to other international assessments of young students and adults.

OECD Skills Studies Skills Matter Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills

OECD Skills Studies Skills Matter Additional Results from the Survey of Adult Skills
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264799001

In the wake of the technological revolution that began in the last decades of the 20th century, labour-market demand for information-processing and other high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills have been growing substantially. Based on the results from the 39 countries and regions that participated in the 1st cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), it places special emphasis on the results from the 3rd round of this cycle, with 6 new countries collecting data in 2018-19. This report describes adults’ proficiency in information-processing skills and examines how proficiency is related to education, labour-market and social outcomes.

OECD Skills Studies The Assessment Frameworks for Cycle 2 of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies

OECD Skills Studies The Assessment Frameworks for Cycle 2 of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9264946063

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 Survey of Adult Skills Reader's Companion

The Survey of Adult Skills Reader's Companion
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264204024

This reader’s companion for the Survey of Adult Skills explains what the survey measures and the methodology behind the measurements.

Educational Research and Innovation Computers and the Future of Skill Demand

Educational Research and Innovation Computers and the Future of Skill Demand
Author: Elliott Stuart W.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9264284397

Computer scientists are working on reproducing all human skills using artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. Unsurprisingly then, many people worry that these advances will dramatically change work skills in the years ahead and perhaps leave many workers unemployable.

OECD Skills Strategy 2019 Skills to Shape a Better Future

OECD Skills Strategy 2019 Skills to Shape a Better Future
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9264313834

The OECD Skills Strategy provides a strategic and comprehensive approach for ensuring that people and countries have the skills to thrive in a complex, interconnected and rapidly changing world. The updated 2019 OECD Skills Strategy takes account of the lessons learned from applying the original skills strategy in 11 countries since 2012...