PIAAC Cycle 2 Organization
Study director(s)
Educational Testing Service (ETS) - Irwin Kirsch, International Project Director
- Overall management of contractors and implementation
- Development of study instruments and delivery platform
- Psychometrics
- Analysis and data products
Institutions and their responsibilities
International Consortium
- GESIS
- Development of the background questionnaire and education level consultations
- Analysis on socio-emotional skills
- cApStAn
- Linguistic quality control
- Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University
- Development of the background questionnaire
- Analysis of background questionnaire responses
- Creation of derived earning variables
- International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
- Data cleaning and database preparation
- Development of PIAAC dashboard
- Coding of occupations and industry sector
- Westat
- Sample design and selection
- Weighting
- Survey operations
- Quality control
- Development of PIAAC dashboard indicators
Expert Groups
- PIAAC Background Questionnaire Expert Group
- Participation in development of the background questionnaire
- PIAAC Literacy Expert Group
- Participation in development of the literacy assessment framework
- PIAAC Numeracy Expert Group
- Participation in development of the numeracy assessment framework
- PIAAC Adaptive Problem Solving Expert Group
- Participation in development of the Adaptive Problem Solving assessment framework
- Technical Advisory Group
National Project Managers
- Implementation of the survey in their respective countries
Boards
- PIAAC Board of Participating Countries
- Project development oversight
Contact
OECD
2, rue André Pascal
75775 Paris Cedex 16
France
Tel: +33 1 45 24 82 00
Fax: +33 1 45 24 85 00
E-Mail: edu.piaac@oecd.org
Funding
- The study was funded predominantly by contributions from the participating countries.
- Financial support was provided by the European Commission.