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Borgonovi, Francesca – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Data from international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) of schooled populations indicate that boys have considerably poorer literacy skills than girls. New evidence from a household-based ILSA--Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)--indicates that the gender gap in literacy is negligible, even though…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J.; Kuhn, Christiane – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
With the Program for International Student Assessment and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study surveys, competency assessment became an important policy instrument in the school sector; only recently has international competency measurement gained attention in higher education with the Assessment of Higher Education Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Competence, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)