HOW TO IMPROVE ADULT LITERACY AND NUMERACY SKILLS? SOME RESULTS OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PIAAC

Sa？etak In this paper we are dealing with importance and impact of adult’s literacy and numeracy skills. We first examine how are those skills valuable for adults in their working and private lives. We do that with presenting evidence from international study “Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies – PIAAC” (OECD, 2016). International analysis shows that the level of skills measured by PIAAC in most OECD countries is low. This is alarming, because PIAAC data show that the level of reading and numeracy skills has a significant impact on the possibilities of further education and employment. Our analysis also show that the level of skill is strongly linked to the level of education and decreases throughout the years. In the article we will deal with the question of how adults with low literacy and numeracy skills use their skills and how this is reflected in their participation in learning