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PIAAC Reading Component: A Conceptual Framework

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  • John P. Sabatini

    (Educational Testing Service)

  • Kelly M. Bruce

    (Educational Testing Service)

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Governments and other stakeholders have become increasingly interested in assessing the skills of their adult populations in order to examine how well prepared they are to meet the challenges of the modern knowledge-based society. The current paper provides a conceptual framework for the assessment of reading component skills in the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The assessment of component skills is intended to provide a greater level of information about the skills of individuals with low levels of literacy proficiency than has been available from previous international assessments. The ‘component skills ’identified for the assessment are vocabulary knowledge, sentence processing and passage comprehension. Les pouvoirs publics et autres parties prenantes s’intéressent de plus en plus à l’évaluation des compétences de la population adulte dans un objectif de suivi de son état de préparation face aux défis de la société moderne de la connaissance. Le présent article fournit un cadre conceptuel pour les éléments de lecture du Programme pour l’évaluation internationale des compétences des adultes (PIAAC). S’appuyant sur les principes et processus de base de la lecture, il définit les compétences à l’écrit ainsi que les tâches de l’évaluation afin de permettre une meilleure compréhension des savoir-faire en lecture inhérents à des niveaux élevés de compréhension des textes. Ce cadre cherche à créer une évaluation qui assure la comparabilité entre les pays et qui établisse une idée plus claire de ce que signifient les profils de lecture des adultes en haut de l’échelle des compétences en compréhension des textes.

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  • John P. Sabatini & Kelly M. Bruce, 2009. "PIAAC Reading Component: A Conceptual Framework," OECD Education Working Papers 33, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:33-en
    DOI: 10.1787/220367414132
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