TY - BOOK ED - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) TI - Skills Matter: Further Results from The Survey of Adult Skills T2 - OECD skills studies, SN - 9789264258044 U1 - 302 OEC PY - 2016/// CY - Paris PB - OECD KW - Adult skills N2 - The capacity to manage information and solve problems using computers is becoming a necessity as ICT applications permeate the workplace, the classroom and lecture hall, the home, and social interaction more generally. The Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), was designed to measure adults’ proficiency in several key information-processing skills, namely literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments. Adults who are highly proficient in the skills measured by the survey are likely to be able to make the most of the opportunities created by the technological and structural changes modern societies are going through. Those who struggle to use new technologies are at greater risk of losing out UR - https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_9789264258051-en ER -