Between PIAAC and the New Literacy Studies. What adult education can learn from large-scale assessments without adopting the neo-liberal paradigm

• Main Author: Anke Grotlüschen (auth)
• Other Authors: Lisanne Heilmann (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2021
• Subjects: Large-Scale Assessment; PIAAC; New Literacy Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

With this book we present a selection of articles that critically deal with (internationally comparative) large-scale assessments. We acknowledge that studies such as PIAAC are often designed, financed and implemented on the basis of neo-liberal worldviews. Nevertheless, we would like to use the art...