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Surveys of Literacy Levels: Results and Implications

Explore how international literacy studies shape perspectives, delve into literacy domains like prose and numeracy, analyze factors influencing literacy levels across countries, and understand the importance of adult education in enhancing literacy worldwide.

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Surveys of Literacy Levels: Results and Implications

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  1. Surveys of Literacy Levels: Results and Implications Mark Morgan Sept 26th 2014

  2. Overview • How international studies of literacy changed perceptions and definitions • International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS): 1994 • Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC): 2012 • Possible Developments for Research

  3. IALS • Major innovations: Literacy levels • Literacy domains: Prose, Document and Quantitative Literacy • Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, US • Literacy practices and relationship to critical factors including level of education • 25% at level 1!!!! • Issue of response rates: Which direction is bias?

  4. PIAAC • Broader assessment: ‘Real world’ Literacy tasks • ‘Real’ numeracy tasks: Graph showing births in the US every ten years..in which decades was there a decline? • Problem solving in context of technology. • Example of websites and selection of the appropriate one and what information can be extracted

  5. Literacy Results in PIAAC • Ireland close to average of all countries • Well behind Japan and Finland • 17.9% at Level 1 • But even at level 1, 95% of word meanings correct (vocabulary) • Ireland significantly below international average on numeracy • When PIAAC and IALS linked..no change

  6. Influential Factors • Gender: No significant differences or in other countries • Contrast with school achievement and ‘reversal’ of gender effects…future • Age: Dependent on when access improved • Effects of age per se: Cognitive decline but effects of compensation and individual differences

  7. Contd • Adult education (low participation in Ireland in IALS) • Related to literacy level…and in every country • Findings from GUI….Holistic nature of development. Association of social-emotional development with learning and literacy • Interaction with life-skills

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