THE INTERNATIONAL ADULT LITERACY SURVEY (IALS): UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS MEASURED

By I. Kirsch. 2001

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Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2009, methodology): “To be included, studies had to (1) be conducted in a developed country (defined as the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, or New Zealand), (2) be published from 1980 to 2008, (3) be written in English, (4) study 10 subjects, (5) measure literacy directly among participants, (6)”
NEPS framework for assessing reading competence and results from an adult pilot study (2013, unknown): “Kirsch (2001) and Mosenthal and Kirsch (1998) developed an additive item rating scheme for this that considered both features of the task or item and the interaction with the text needed to solve the text comprehension task.”
Review of HDI Critiques and Potential Improvements (2010, background): “" (Kirsch, 2001) In total, only 22 countries were covered by the IALS.”
A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy (2014, background): “Other international assessments include the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALL) [30], the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) [23], and the Miller Word Identification Assessment (MWIA) [28].”