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The IALS venture was initiated with two fundamental goals:
1) The first objective was to develop an assessment instrument that would permit useful
comparisons of literacy performance across languages and cultures.
2) If such an assessment could be created, the second goal was to perform such
comparisons, describing the literacy skills of people from different countries; each
country’s skill profile would be obtained by conducting a sample survey of households
representative of the entire adult population.
The central element of the survey was the direct assessment of the literacy skills of
respondents using commonplace tasks of varying degree of difficulty drawn from a range
of topic and knowledge areas. This information was supported by the collection of
background information on respondents. In addition, the background questionnaire
included questions on the self-assessment of literacy skills of respondents, on the
training which the respondent has taken in the year previous to the survey and on the
perceived barriers to realizing enhanced literacy skill levels.
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