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All dressed up and nowhere to go: PIAAC in Canada
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Trends and Issues in Canadian Adult Education Research
Abstract The international adult literacy survey series has been conducted for over 25 years, culminating most recently in the PIAAC results released in 2013. Canada was deeply involved in the development of the series, and for PIAAC funded a sample size around seven times the average. Yet the analysis of th... view more
The international adult literacy survey series has been conducted for over 25 years, culminating most recently in the PIAAC results released in 2013. Canada was deeply involved in the development of the series, and for PIAAC funded a sample size around seven times the average. Yet the analysis of the results has been limited, and impact on the field yet more so. This chapter discusses one explanation for the failure of the survey to have a wider impact, and identifies implications for adult education policy more broadly.... view less
Keywords
educational research; competence; adult; survey research; educational policy; Canada
Classification
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
Infrastructure; Surveys; adult literacy; PIAAC
Collection Title
Trends and Issues in Canadian Adult Education Research
Editor
Schemmann, Michael
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
wbv Media GmbH & Co. KG
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
p. 19-31
Series
Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung, 41
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3278/6004672w019
ISSN
0074-9818
ISBN
978-3-7639-5998-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed