... and competences of adults aged 16 to 65 years. PIAAC is a computer-based survey that is administered in households. Interviewers bring laptop computers into the homes of participants who are asked to complete an extensive background questionnaire (BQ) and set of cognitive assessments focusing on literacy...

... unexpected results are reported. Respondents who tend to use response sets have lower expected values on PIAAC literacy scales, even after controlling for scores on the skill-use scale that was used to derive the response tendency. Originality/value The use of new sources of data, such as timing and log...

...Kevin Watson; Boris Handal; Marguerite Maher Purpose The purpose of this paper was to investigate the influences of calendar year, year level, gender and language background other than English (LBOTE) on student achievement in literacy and numeracy relative to class size. Design/methodology...