The phrase "adults competency" is not correct in written English.
It should be "adult competency" to refer to the skills or abilities of adults.
Example: "The training program focuses on improving adult competency in various professional skills."
Alternatives: "adult skills" or "competence of adults".
In our results we show how adult competency scores of groups with 'comparable' educational qualifications vary between countries.
With regard to assessing of adults' competences, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC 4 measures core competences in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich everyday life environments (OECD 2013, p. 4).
The Educational Testing Service also used the OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to determine the ranking of American millennials when it came to literacy, numeracy and problem solving among 33 countries.
A new paper* from the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, tries to fill this gap.The research uses survey data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), released only a few months ago.
John Jerrim of the Institute of Education at University College London, has produced what he calls the first quantitative look at the skills of people who move into and out of Britain.Mr Jerrim analysed the OECD's Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which covers two dozen countries and assesses the skills of adult populations.
Our cognitive skill measures in PIAAC comprised two key adult competencies: literacy and numeracy.
Data for this study comes from the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies' Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC).
PIAAC differs from previous rounds of international surveys of adult competencies in a number of important ways.
PIAAC aims to investigate the acquisition and loss of adult competencies, skill usage, and the relations between these competencies and key indicators of life success.
The PIAAC program compares cognitive skills such as the two key adult competencies literacy and numeracy across a large number of (mainly OECD) countries.
In fact, large-scale assessments are largely motivated by the desire to more directly measure adult competencies than using educational attainment as a proxy.
