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Analysing Poor Reading Skills: A Comparison Between PIAAC Literacy Levels and Reading components
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to compare two measures of literacy skills used in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult
Competencies (PIAAC), i.e. literacy levels and reading components. Different from assessing literacy levels, which cover the entire range of
reading skills from very ... view more
The aim of this paper is to compare two measures of literacy skills used in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult
Competencies (PIAAC), i.e. literacy levels and reading components. Different from assessing literacy levels, which cover the entire range of
reading skills from very high to very low, the reading components assessment is specifically designed to test the reading skills of the low
literate. As literacy skills are an important determinant for labour market success, we examine whether the reading components assessment is
a better predictor of employment of the test takers than the general literacy level assessment used in PIAAC. We compare different logistic
regression models that include literacy levels and the reading components and use the Wald-test to compare the model fit of each examined
model. In a further step we test whether the predictive validity differs between low and high literate test takers. Our results indicate that the
PIAAC reading components are more useful in predicting employment of the low literate than the PIAAC literacy levels.... view less
Keywords
measurement; reading; literacy; model comparison; Federal Republic of Germany; validity; regression analysis; employment; unemployment; quota; German language; sample; adult
Classification
Sociology of Education
Free Keywords
Literacy measures; low-literate; reading components; Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies; PIAAC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 1-9
Journal
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (2019)
ISSN
2296-4754
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed