AlsoPaisleyCat<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>remixtures</span></a></span> </p><p>Here’s reliable evidence validating concerns that literacy levels are dropping significantly in developed countries among those with lower levels of education.</p><p>This study goes beyond just basic decoding of words to assess numeracy, data interpretation and critical thinking skills.</p><p>Would welcome a gift link to the FT report please to get behind the paywall.</p><p>OECD has been testing adult literacy in a rigorous and comparable way since the mid 1990s with TALIS (The Adult Literacy International Survey). Here’s the OECD link to the top line 2023 findings <a href="https://gpseducation.oecd.org/IndicatorExplorer?plotter=h5&query=51" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gpseducation.oecd.org/Indicato</span><span class="invisible">rExplorer?plotter=h5&query=51</span></a></p><p>Here’s the news release from earlier this month from the Council of Ministers of Education Canada(CMEC) on the OECD release of the broader Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).</p><p>The message is that education matters: “adults holding bachelor’s degrees or higher consistently outperforming those with lower levels of education.”</p><p><a href="https://cmec.ca/278/CANADA_RANKS_AMONG_TOP_OECD_COUNTRIES_IN_FOUNDATIONAL_SKILLS__RESULTS_FROM_THE_PROGRAMME_FOR_THE_INTERNATIONAL_ASSESSMENT_OF_ADULT_COMPETENCIES_(PIAAC).html?id=1058" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cmec.ca/278/CANADA_RANKS_AMONG</span><span class="invisible">_TOP_OECD_COUNTRIES_IN_FOUNDATIONAL_SKILLS__RESULTS_FROM_THE_PROGRAMME_FOR_THE_INTERNATIONAL_ASSESSMENT_OF_ADULT_COMPETENCIES_(PIAAC).html?id=1058</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Literacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literacy</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OECD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OECD</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TALIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TALIS</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PIAAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PIAAC</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Postsecondary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postsecondary</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DataVisualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataVisualization</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/PublicPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicPolicy</span></a></p>