STEP Skills Measurement Surveys : Innovative Tools for Assessing Skills

The Skills Towards Employability and Productivity (STEP) program was designed to better understand the interplay between skills on the one hand and employability and productivity on the other. The STEP program developed survey instruments tailored to collect data on skills in low- and middle-income country contexts. The present note is a reference document for readers seeking background information on the STEP surveys and for users of the data, which is publicly available through the World Bank s Microdata Catalog. The note describes the design of the survey instruments and the constructs measured as well as the technical standards and implementation protocols adopted to ensure data quality and comparability across countries. It also provides guidance to users for the construction of aggregated skills indicators and for the use of the reading literacy assessment data.

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Main Authors:	Pierre, Gaelle, Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura, Valerio, Alexandria, Rajadel, Tania
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014-07
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION, ACQUISITION OF SKILLS, ADULT LITERACY, ADULT POPULATIONS, ADULTS, ADVERTISEMENTS, AGE OF ENTRANCE, ASSESSMENT DESIGN, ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK, ASSESSMENT MATERIALS, ASSESSMENT OF LITERACY, BASIC EDUCATION, BASIC LITERACY, BASIC SKILLS, COGNITIVE SKILLS, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, COMPUTER SKILLS, COMPUTER USE, CONCEPT OF LITERACY, CONSUMER GOODS, CONTINUING EDUCATION, CONTINUOUS LEARNING, COUNSELING, DATA COLLECTION, DECISION MAKING, DECISION-MAKING, DIPLOMAS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, EDUCATION AID, EDUCATION LEVEL, EDUCATION POLICY, EDUCATION REFORMS, EDUCATION STRATEGIES, EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, EDUCATIONAL TESTING, ENGINEERS, ENROLLMENT, ETS, EXAM, FIELDS OF STUDY, FIRST GRADE, FORMAL EDUCATION, FORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, FORMAL SCHOOLING, GENERAL EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INDEXES, INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEARNING TIME, LET, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LEVEL OF LITERACY, LEVELS OF LITERACY, LIFE SKILLS, LIFELONG LEARNING, LITERACY, LITERACY ASSESSMENT, LITERACY COURSES, LITERACY DOMAIN, LITERACY SKILLS, LITERACY SURVEY, LITERACY SURVEYS, LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION, MATHEMATICS, NATIONAL EDUCATION, NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM, NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, NUMERACY, OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS, OCCUPATIONS, PERSONALITY, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PROBLEM SOLVING, PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS, PROFICIENCY, READERS, READING, READING ACHIEVEMENT, READING COMPREHENSION, READING SKILLS, REASONING, SCHOOL GRADUATES, SCHOOL MATERIALS, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOL-AGE, SCHOOL-TYPE ENVIRONMENT, SCHOOLING, SCIENTISTS, SKILLS ACQUISITION, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, SKILLS REQUIREMENTS, SOCIAL BENEFITS, TARGET POPULATIONS, TECHNICIANS, TENURE, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TRAINING COURSES, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, WRITING SKILLS, WRITTEN LANGUAGE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/19894104/step-skills-measurement-surveys-innovative-tools-assessing-skills https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19985
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