ILSA-Gateway: PIAAC Cycle 1 ADDITIONAL MATERIALS

PISA-VET: First ILSA Focused on Vocational Education and Training Now on the Gateway

Discover PISA–VET on the ILSA Gateway now! As the first ILSA to focus on vocational education and training (VET), the study provides essential insights into the skills of students in vocational pathways and the outcomes of initial VET programs across countries.
These new Gateway pages introduce the purpose and structure of the study, provide an overview of the assessment framework, and highlight key organizational features.

PISA-VET

PIAAC Cycle 2: All Pages Now Available

Latest additions

All thematic pages for PIAAC Cycle 2 are now accessible on the ILSA Gateway. These pages provide comprehensive information on the assessment framework, instruments, implementation, international database, and key findings. The study measures the literacy, numeracy, and adaptive problem-solving skills of adults aged 16 to 65, providing vital data on how these skills vary across and within countries. The results also shed light on the relationship between adult competencies and background variables such as education, employment, gender, age, and digital skills use.

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30 Sep 2025 - 01 Oct 2025

International PIAAC Research Conference 2025

Events

The International PIAAC Conference 2025 will be held in Mannheim on Sept 30–Oct 1 and provide a platform for sharing interdisciplinary research based on the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The focus will be on data from PIAAC 2023, covering topics like cognitive skills, group comparisons, and methodological advancements.

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Is Education Losing the Race with Technology? AI's Progress in Maths and Reading

Publications

The present report follows up the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), collecting expert judgements in 2021 on whether computers can solve the PIAAC literacy and numeracy tests. It is part of a comprehensive ongoing project on assessing AI. This study shows that AI could potentially outperform large shares of the population on PIAAC – 90% of adults in literacy and 57-88% of adults in numeracy.

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Commissioned Paper: Using PIAAC to Examine Characteristics

Publications

The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) related publication should provide information on how to support adults in the U.S. who began but did not complete educational qualifications.

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Educational Research and Innovation: Is Education Losing the Race With Technology? AI’S Progress in Maths and Reading

Publications

This report follows up an earlier pilot study, collecting expert evaluations of how well artificial intelligence (AI) can do the literacy and numeracy tests of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills of the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

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PIAAC 2nd Cycle

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) measures adults’ proficiency in key cognitive and workplace areas, i.e., literacy, numeracy, and problem solving. PIAAC 2nd Cycle is taking place from 2018-2024 with the participation of over 30 countries and economies. The first round of data collection will take place in 2022-2023, and the results will be published in 2024. We have recently published the Fact Sheet and Framework pages.

PIAAC 2nd Cycle

New PIAAC Bibliography Released

Publications

The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) bibliography provides an outline of the publications created since the conceptualization of the study in 2008. It comprises 793 publications and 75 data sets, including 14 technical documents.

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OECD Getting Skills Right Series: Continuing Education and Training in Germany

Publications

Getting Skills Right is a series that examines how countries measure changing skill needs and how they develop skills that respond to labor market needs, and how they ensure that these skills are fully utilized by individuals and employers. Presenting both thematic reports on specific policies and issues and in-depth country reviews, this series offers countries the information and analysis they need to get skills right.

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Report on the Final Phase of the 1st Cycle of PIAAC Survey Released

Publications

In the wake of the technological revolution that began in the last decades of the 20th century, labour market demand for information-processing and other high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills is growing substantially.

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