A slow burn: the impact of IALS in Australia

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Abstract

Australia Australia has put its hand up to participate in all the international literacy surveys on offer: IALS in the second wave (1996), the ALL Survey in the second wave (2006), and PIAAC in 2011-12 – in the field right now. Nevertheless, until very recently Australia’s general response to the surveys can best be described as inert: more in the vein of our habitual “she’ll be right” than the “clever country” that our prime minister of the 1980s urged us to become. For most of the period since the IALS results were published in 1997, Australia paid little attention to reports on our performance in international surveys of literacy – and this is not confined to the adult sector.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Adult Literacy Survey -
Duration: 1 Oct 2011 → …

Conference

ConferenceInternational Adult Literacy Survey
Period1/10/11 → …

Keywords

  • Adult literacy
  • Assessment
  • Australia
  • International surveys
  • Literacy
  • PISA
  • Writing

Disciplines

  • Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

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