Are large surveys of adult literacy skills as comparable over time as we think?

Abstract Recent literature shows that younger cohorts have lower levels of literacy ceteris paribus in Canada, the United States, Norway and other developed countries. Very few explanations are provided to justify the existence of this negative cohort effect. Yet this decline has serious implication...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Samuel Vézina, Alain Bélanger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-02-01
Series:Large-scale Assessments in Education
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40536-020-00080-3