Seminar on Basic Skills 2016
Nordic Seminar on Basic Skills
- under the NordForsk “Education for tomorrow” initiative
November 17th 2016,
Location: Eigtveds Parkhus, Asiatisk Plads 2G, 1448 Copenhagen K, Denmark
We are organizing a one-day seminar in Copenhagen on November 17th 2016. At the seminar, we will present new Nordic research on skills in literacy, numeracy and problem-solving based on the PIAAC - OECD Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (sometimes labelled ‘Adult PISA’), covering the population aged 16-65 years. We will also present new analyses, in which PIAAC data is compared to and combined with PISA data on 15-year olds.
The seminar is particularly relevant for researchers interested in basic skills and lifelong learning and for professionals from the educational and labour market sectors. We aim at a balanced representation of these two groups. The conference is announced in Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden.
The seminar is organized by researchers from the project “Skill Acquisition, Skill Loss and Age in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden” financed under the “Education for Tomorrow” initiative launched in 2012 by NordForsk, which has also financed the seminar. The researchers will present core results from their research (see the attached program).
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Seminar program November 17th 2016
9.30-10.15 Arrival and coffee
10.15-10.30 Welcome and introduction
Moderator: Mia Smeds, Communications Specialist, University of Helsinki
Antero Malin, PhD, Head of Project
Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
10.30-12.00 PISA and PIAAC - Skills of young people below 30
Lasting effects of quality of schooling: New evidence from combining PISA and PIAAC
Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Professor,
Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg
Is the PISA test more female friendly than PIAAC measurement of skills? New evidence on gender differences
Kjersti Lundetræ, Associate Professor,
National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger.
Reading skills, learning and skill loss after compulsory education – winners and losers in a generation of young people based on matched PISA-PIAAC data
Anders Rosdahl, Senior Research Fellow,
SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-14.30 Development of skills over time
Adult literacy skills in the Nordic countries over two decades
Torben Fridberg, Senior Researcher,
SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research
Literacy, age and recentness of education
Sari Sulkunen, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
A cross-national test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis
Karsten Albæk, Senior Researcher,
SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.00 Differences in skills across groups
The importance of skill differences between immigrants and natives for national results in PIAAC
Erik Mellander, Associate Professor,
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Sweden
Health-related skill differences
Egil Gabrielsen, Associate Professor,
National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger
16.00-16.15 Concluding reflections
Antero Malin, PhD, Head of Project
Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Mia Smeds, Communications Specialist, University of Helsinki
