social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping … discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement. Education … education. …

Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the …

Literacy for Life is the second report from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. It presents additional results … on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries and how these gaps have evolved over the medium …. The study offers comparative evidence on the impact of various factors on the supply of skill. The study offers a special …

Assessing Scientific, Reading and Mathematical Literacy: A Framework for PISA 2006 presents the conceptual framework … underlying the PISA 2006 survey. It includes a re-developed and expanded framework for scientific literacy, an innovative …

The ‘basic skills’ of literacy and numeracy are among the most fundamental attributes of human beings and their … national and international level (e.g. International Survey of Adult Skills of 1994-98 and Adult Literacy and Life Skills … Survey of 2003-2007). Most tellingly, there has been a belated realization that despite universal basic education in advanced …

The results of the Adult Skills Assessment confirm that there is a strong link between the level of literacy …

between self-reported health and literacy is highest in Austria and the United States. Cross-country differences in the … association between schooling and self-reported health and between literacy proficiency and self-reported health suggest that … healthcare and social welfare systems play an important role in shaping the association between schooling, literacy and health. …

The most recent round of the assessment, PISA 2015, focused on 15-year-olds’ science literacy, defined as “the ability …

The Survey of Adult Skills finds that even adults with the lowest proficiency in literacy possess some basic reading …. Among adults with low proficiency in literacy, those who took the survey in a language different from their mother tongue …