The concise resume that could be drawn from the German PIAAC study would be: Every sixth German adult reads and calculates at a ten-year-old students competence level and every tenth German adult can not handle a “mouse”. Or, according to PIAAC: the german educational system apparently doesn’t offer all peolpe the chance to achieve basic competences that exceed over an elementary level. Though these results are statistically valid and reliable, they reduce without further differentiation PIAACs overall intentions.

Keywords
adult education, skill measurement, comparative international study, Germany, PIAAC, PISA, OECD