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Tobin Lopes; Ellen Scully-Russ; Jill Zarestky; Joshua C. Collins – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2019
This paper is focused on studying the relationship between level of collaboration, cooperation, and information sharing at work and respondents' skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. Specifically, authors address the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between cooperation/collaboration and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Work Environment, Information Transfer, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Esther Prins; Shannon Monnat; Carol Clymer; Blaire Toso – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2015
This paper uses data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to analyze the relationship between self-reported health and (a) literacy, numeracy, and technological problem-solving skills, and (b) post-initial learning for U.S. respondents, and to determine whether those relationships vary by race/ethnicity…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Problem Solving, Technological Literacy
Anita Alves Pena – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2015
Previous studies have examined relationships between skills and economic distributions within and across countries to mixed results that relate to both variation in empirical methods and to limited availabilities of consistent skill data separate from education histories. Using multifaceted and internationally comparable skill data from the…
Descriptors: Adults, Literacy, Numeracy, Problem Solving