IALS-ALL-PIAAC: Literature and Policy Footprint Corpus for Adult Skills Assessments

A Hungarian researcher compiled this dataset for a time-comparative literature footprint analysis of international adult skills assessments. It documents conceptual shifts from adult literacy to life skills, adult competencies, and problem solving across the IALS, ALL, and PIAAC survey cycles. The dataset includes six main Excel files and four figures, totaling 862.1 KB, and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Conducting a literature review based on the coded scholarly literature corpus.
• Analyzing policy uptake and conceptual shifts in adult skills policy documents.
• Tracing the evolution of problem-solving as a skill domain from IALS to PIAAC II.
• Creating visualizations of thematic clusters and source strength distributions using the included figures.

Strengths

• Includes six structured Excel files covering core documents, literature, policy, glossary, analysis, and a specific problem-solving domain.
• Contains four visual figures (e.g., thematic cluster radar, heatmap) to support analysis.
• Follows a clear conceptual trajectory across three major international assessment programs (IALS, ALL, PIAAC).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Compiled for a literature footprint analysis, likely involving document collection and coding.

Time Range

Covers literature and policy documents across the IALS, ALL, and PIAAC survey cycles.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 16:46:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

International, focusing on the discourse around major international skills assessments.