Wednesday, October 9, 2013

OECD says US Adults Lag Practical Workplace Skills

OECD says US Adults Lag Practical Workplace Skills


Notes

  • Age: In each survey across theOECD, those aged around 30 had the highest scores compared with other age groups.
  • Immigrants Immigrants performed worse than the native-born, especially those who did not learn the language of their new country as a child. But skills proficiency improves with length of stay in the host country, pointing to the important role of integration policies.
  • Math: In numeracy, or math, the U.S. scored 253, below the international average, and far behind Japan's 288. Almost one in three adults in Italy (31.7%), Spain (30.6%) and the United States (28.7%) perform at or below the most basic level of numeracy, compared to around one in ten in Japan (8.2%), Finland (12.8%) and the Czech Republic (12.8%).
  • Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. 
  • Reading: In reading, over one in five adults in Italy (27.7%), Spain (27.5%) and France (21.6%) perform at or below the most basic level, compared with one in twenty Japanese (4.9%) and one in ten Finns (10.6%).
  • Education: people with a higher educational levels scored better and earned more income. The low-skilled are more likely than others to be unemployed, have bad health and earn much less,

Reference:

  • OECD Survey of Adult Skills news release | Booklet | 

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OECD Skills Test: U.S. Adults Lag In Practical Workplace Skills


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Americans performed below the international average on math, reading and problem-solving on the exam, known as the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. U.S. math skills lagged far behind top performers, including Japan and Finland. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in Paris, released the results early Tuesday.
"These findings should concern us all. They show our education system hasn't done enough to help Americans compete -- or position our country to lead -- in a global economy that demands increasingly higher skills," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Americans scored 270 in literacy on average, compared with 296 in Japan. In numeracy, or math, the U.S. scored 253, below the international average, and far behind Japan's 288.
In a technology-based problem-solving skills, Poland performed the worst, with an average score of 274, compared with the U.S. average of 277 and Japan's 294.
Poland, which received attention for rapidly rising scores on the Program for International Student Assessment, and Korea, also a high performer, had lower literacy skills than the U.S. on the new test. Poland and Korea had numeracy scores similar to the U.S.

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