OECD Education Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language (English or French) with a short summary available in the other.
- ISSN: 19939019 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19939019
PIAAC Reading Component: A Conceptual Framework
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.
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