caa a22 4500 475743466 CHVBK 20180406123506.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1004125413660 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1004125413660 The International Adult Literacy Survey: What Does It Really Measure? [Elektronische Daten] [Mary Hamilton, David Barton] The paper evaluates the work of the International Adult Literacy Survey as reported in OECD 1997. It assesses its contribution to understanding literacy in terms of the perspective of the New Literacy Studies. It outlines this perspective as a basis for a critique that is mostly concerned with the validity of the test. Three criticisms of the survey are made: that it provides only a partial picture of literacy; that culture is treated as bias; and that the test items do not represent the real-life items as claimed. Finally, the paper concludes with an overall evaluation of what the IALS achieves in terms of its own aims. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Hamilton Mary Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, Lancaster, UK aut Barton David Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, Lancaster, UK aut International Review of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 46/5(2000-09-01), 377-389 0020-8566 46:5<377 2000 46 11159 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004125413660 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004125413660 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hamilton Mary Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, Lancaster, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barton David Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, LA1 4YL, Lancaster, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 46/5(2000-09-01), 377-389 0020-8566 46:5<377 2000 46 11159 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer