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 Numeracy: A Conceptual Framework
Governments and other stakeholders have become increasingly interested in assessing the skills
of their adult populations in order to monitor how well prepared they are to meet the challenges of the new
information world. The current paper provides an overview of the conceptual framework for the
assessment of numeracy developed for the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult
Competencies (PIAAC). This builds on the numeracy framework developed for the Adult Literacy and
Life Skills Survey (ALL). Numeracy is broadly defined and complemented with a definition of ‘numerate
behaviour’. Four facets of numerate behaviour are identified and described to guide the development of
assessment tasks.
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