Annex C. Project participants in Round 1 of the Survey of Adult Skills

International consortium

Educational Testing Service (ETS) – Overall Management, Test Development, Psychometrics, Analysis and Data Products

Irwin Kirsch (International Project Director)

Claudia Tamassia (International Project Manager)

Kentaro Yamamoto (Director, Psychometrics and Analysis)

Matthias von Davier (Co-Director, Psychometrics and Analysis)

Marylou Lennon (Test Development, Literacy and PSTRE)

John P. Sabatini (Test Development, Reading Components)

Kelly M. Bruce (Test Development, Reading Components)

Eugenio Gonzalez (Training and Technical Report)

Michael Wagner (Director, Platform Development)

Larry Hanover (Editorial Support)

Judy Mendez (Project Support)

Lisa Hemat (Project Support)

Jason Bonthron (Platform Development)

Mike Ecker (Platform Development)

Ramin Hemat (Platform Development)

Tom Florek (Platform Development)

Debbie Pisacreta (Platform Development)

Janet Stumper (Platform Development)

John Barone (Director, Data Analysis and Database Preparation)

Scott Davis (Data Analysis)

Justin Herbert (Data Analysis)

Steven Holtzman (Data Analysis)

Laura Jerry (Data Analysis)

Mathew Kandathil (Data Analysis Leader)

Debra Kline (Data Management)

Nan Kong (Data Analysis)

Phillip Leung (Data Analysis Leader)

Chen Li (Data Analysis)

Mei-Jang Lin (Data Analysis)

Michael Narcowich (Data Analysis)

Alfred Rogers (Data Analysis Leader)

Jonathan Steinberg (Data Analysis)

Joan Stoeckel (Data Analysis and Data Management)

Ruopei Sun (Data Analysis)

Minhwei Wang (Data Analysis Leader)

Kei Sing Wong (Data Analysis)

Lingjun Wong (Data Analysis)

Jeffrey Wright (Data Analysis)

Fred Yan (Data Analysis)

Ningshan Zhang (Data Analysis)

Danielle Baum (Consultant, Paper Booklets)

Juliette Mendelovits (Consultant, Literacy Test Development, ACER)

Dara Searle (Consultant, Literacy Test Development, ACER)

GESIS – Development of the Job Requirement Approach Module and Background Questionnaire

Beatrice Rammstedt (Lead)

Dorothée Behr

Susanne Helmschrott

Silke Martin

Natascha Massing

Anouk Zabal

Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) – Development of the PIAAC Test Delivery Platform

Ingo Barkow (International IT Support)

Robert Baumann (Software Development)

Simon Brüchner (Software Development)

Mahtab Dalir (Software Development)

Alexander During (Software Development)

Gabriele Gissler (Item Development)

Frank Goldhammer (Test Development, Deputy Project Co-Director)

Roland Johannes (Software Development)

Elham Müller (Software Development)

Jean-Paul Reeff (International Consultant)

Marc Rittberger (Director)

Heiko Rölke (Project Co-Director)

Maya Schnitzler (Software Development)

Felix Toth (Software Development)

Britta Upsing (Project Co-ordinator)

cApStAn – Linguistic Quality Control

Steve Dept (Verification Operations)

Andrea Ferrari (Verification Methodology and Management)

Laura Wäyrynen (Verification Methodology and Management)

Elica Krajčeva (Verification Management)

Raphaël Choppinet (Verification Management)

Shinoh Lee (Verification Management)

Irene Liberati (Verification Management)

Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University – Development of the Job Requirement Approach Module and Background Questionnaire

Rolf van der Velden (Co-ordinator, Background Questionnaire Development)

Jim Allen (Background Questionnaire Development)

Martin Humburg (Background Questionnaire Development)

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) – Data Cleaning and Database Preparation

Alena Becker (Data Processing and National Adaptations)

Christine Busch (Meta-data and Processing)

Ralph Carstens (Lead International Data Management and Analysis Support/Training)

Mark Cockle (Quality Control and Manuals)

Tim Daniel (Co-Lead International Data Management)

Bastian Deppe (Software Testing and Data Cleaning)

Limiao Duan (Processing Systems Development)

Daniela Tranziska (Processing Systems Development)

Christian Harries (Software Development)

Pamela Inostroza (Processing Systems Development)

Matthias Jenzen (Software Development)

Maike Junod (Software Development)

Alexander Konn (Processing Systems Development)

Kamil Kowolik (Data Processing and National Adaptations)

Alexander Lebedev (Software Testing)

Sebastian Meyer (Data Processing and National Adaptations)

Pia Möbus (Software Testing and Data Cleaning)

Jirka Neumann (Data Processing and National Adaptations)

Brice Nzuakue Diogni (Software Testing)

Dirk Oehler (Quality Control and Processing Systems)

Martin Olszewski (Processing Systems Testing)

Daniel Radtke (Data Processing and National Adaptations)

Frank Wohnfurter (Software Development)

Westat – Sample Design and Selection, Weighting, Survey Operations, and Quality Control

Leyla Mohadjer (Director, Sampling Activities)

Pat Montalvan (Director, Survey Operations)

Tom Krenzke (Manager, Sampling Activities)

Michael Lemay (Manager, Survey Operations)

Wendy Van de Kerckhove (Senior Leader, Sampling Activities)

Valerie Hsu (Leader, Sampling Activities)

Laura Alvarez-Rojas (Senior Survey Statistician)

Lillian Diaz-Hoffmann (Survey Operations Material Development and Training)

Sylvia Dohrmann (Senior Survey Statistician)

Jarrod Grebing (Survey Operations Training)

Hongsheng Hao (Senior Survey Statistician)

Wen-Chau Haung (Senior Systems Analyst)

Michael Jones (Senior Survey Statistician)

Robin Jones (Senior Systems Analyst)

Jane Li (Senior Survey Statistician)

Lin Li (Senior Survey Statistician)

Yuki Nakamoto (Senior Systems Analyst)

Margo Tercy (Project Support)

Klaus Teuter (Senior Systems Analyst)

Chao Zhou (Survey Statistician)

Public Research Center Henri Tudor – Development of the Computer-Based Platform for the Background Questionnaire

Thibaud Latour (Scientific Unit Leader, Project Co-ordination)

Isabelle Jars (Project Management)

Raynald Jadoul (Software Architecture and Staff Co-ordination)

Patrick Plichart (Platform Architecture)

Vincent Porro (Lead Designer and Development)

Lionel Lecaque (Platform Integration)

Jérôme Bogaerts (Lead Developer)

Joël Billard (Questionnaire Development)

Damien Arcani (Contents Designer)

Somsack Sipasseuth (Workflow Development)

Primaël Lorbat (Multilingual Framework Development)

Younes Djaghloul (Multilingual Framework Development)

Igor Ribassin (Virtual Machine Integration)

Pierre Goulaieff (Communication)

Expert groups

PIAAC Background Questionnaire Expert Group

Ken Mayhew (Chair), Pembroke College, Oxford and SKOPE, Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, United Kingdom

Patrice de Broucker, Statistics Canada, Canada

Enrique Fernandez, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Ireland

Masako Kurosawa, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

Kea Tijdens, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Scott Murray, Canada

Jürgen Schupp, The Free University of Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research DIW, Germany

Tom W. Smith, University of Chicago, United States

Robert Willis, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, United States

PIAAC Literacy Expert Group

Stan Jones (Chair), Canada

Egil Gabrielsen, Center for Reading Research, University of Stavanger, Norway

Jan Hagston, Australia

Pirjo Linnakylä, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Hakima Megherbi, University of Paris, France

John Sabatini, Educational Testing Service, United States

Monika Tröster, German Institute for Adult Education, Germany

Eduardo Vidal-Abarca, Department of Psychology, University of Valencia, Spain

PIAAC Numeracy Expert Group

Iddo Gal (Chair), University of Haifa, Israel

Silvia Alatorre, National Pedagogical University, Mexico

Sean Close, St. Patrick’s College, Ireland

Jeff Evans, Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Lene Johansen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Terry Maguire, Institute of Technology Tallaght-Dublin, Ireland

Myrna Manly, United States

Dave Tout, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia

PIAAC Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments Expert Group

Jean-François Rouet (Chair), CNRS and University of Poitiers, France

Mirelle Bétrancourt, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Anne Britt, Northern Illinois University, United States

Rainer Bromme, University of Muenster, Germany

Arthur C. Graesser, University of Memphis, United States

Jonna M. Kulikowich, Pennsylvania State University, United States

Donald J. Leu, University of Connecticut, United States

Naoki Ueno, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Herre van Oostendorp, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Reading Components Expert Group

John P. Sabatini, Educational Testing Service, United States

Kelly M. Bruce, Educational Testing Service, United States

Technical Advisory Group

Cees A. W. Glas (Chair), Institute for Behavioural Research at the University of Twente, Netherlands

Roel J. Bosker, Groningen Institute for Educational Research at the University of Groningen, Netherlands

Henry Braun, Boston College, United States

Lars Lyberg, Sweden

Robert J. Mislevy, Education Testing Service and University of Maryland, United States

Christian Monseur, University of Liege, Belgium

Irini Moustaki, London School of Economics, and Athens University of Economics and Business, United Kingdom and Greece

Board of participating countries

Co-Chairs

Satya Brink (Canada) (2008-10)

Dan McGrath (United States) (2010-13)

Paolo Sestito (Italy) (2008-13)

Delegates

Australia: Paul Cmiel, Shannon Madden, Scott Matheson and Mark Roddam

Austria: Helmut Höpflinger (2008-09), Robert Jellasitz (from 2009), Mark Német

Belgium (Flanders): Raf Boey and Anton Derks

Canada: Satya Brink, Patrick Bussière, Mark Hopkins, Barbara Leung, Valerie Saysset, Katerina Sukovski and Allen Sutherland

Czech Republic: Petr Mateju (2008-11) Jakub Starek (from Jan 2011)

Denmark: Jan Reitz Jørgensen, Michael Justesen (2008-12) and Ditte Sølvhøj (from May 2012)

Estonia: Tiina Annus

Finland: Jorma Ahola (2008-10), Petri Haltia, Ville Heinonen, Reijo Laukkanen, Petra Packalén and Varpu Weijola

France: Patrick Pommier

Germany: Andreas Henkes and Alexander Renner

Ireland: Pat Hayden, Seamus Hempenstall (2008-13) and Majella O’Dea (from Feb. 2013)

Italy: Gabriella Di Francesco, Alessandra Tomai and Andrea Valenti

Japan: Ryo Watanabe

Korea: Sooyoung Lee and Eon Lim

Netherlands: Maurice Doll (from 2012), Geralt Nekkers (2008-11) and Ted Reininga

Norway: Lars Nerdrum, Sverre Try and Gry Høeg Ulverud

Poland: Lidia Olak

Slovak Republic: Júlia Štepánková

Spain: Sagrario Avezuela Sánchez, Jesús Barroso Barrero (from 2012), Adolfo Hernández Gordillo, Enrique Roca Cobo (until 2012) and Ismael Sanz Labrador

Sweden: Dan Grannas (from 2010), Helen Kaplan (2008-10), Carina Lindén and Nina Waldenström (2008-10)

United Kingdom: Anthony Clarke, Euan Dick and Stephen Leman

United States: Melvin Brodsky and Daniel McGrath

European Commission: Anastasios Bisopoulos and Jens Fischer-Kottenstede

National project managers

Australia: Loucas Harous, Cynthia Millar, Theo Neumann and Wendy Ozols

Austria: Markus Bönisch and Eduard Stöger

Belgium (Flanders): Inge de Meyer

Canada: Sylvie Grenier

Cyprus1 : Athena Michaelidou

Czech Republic: Jana Strakova

Denmark: Torben Friberg and Anders Rosdahl

Estonia: Vivika Halapuu and Aune Valk

Finland: Pirjo Linnakylä and Antero Malin

France: Arnaud Degorre (from 2008 to Aug. 2009) and Nicolas Jonas (from Sept. 2009)

Germany: Beatrice Rammstedt

Ireland: Donal Kelly

Italy: Manuela Amendola, Michela Bastianelli, Gabriella Di Francesco; Vittoria Gallina, Simona Mineo and Fabio Roma

Japan: Atsushi Kogirima and Daisuke Machida

Korea: Sooyoung Lee and Eon Lim

Netherlands: Willem Houtkoop and Marieke Buisman

Norway: Birgit Bjørkeng, Vibeke Opheim, Elisabeth Rønning and Nils Vibe

Poland: Jan Burski (from May 2012), Michał Federowicz, Artur Pokropek and Mateusz Żółtak (until April 2012)

Russian Federation: Oleg Podolskiy and Dmitry Popov

Slovak Republic: Zuzana Lukackova (until April 2011), Adriana Mesarosova (from April 2011), Ildiko Pathoova

Spain: Rosario Álvarez Vara (until Sept. 2009), Azucena Corredera González (from Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2011), Angeles Picado Vallés (from Sept. 2011 to Sept. 2012), Inés Sancha Gonzalo (from Sept. 2009) and Luis Sanz San Miguel (from Sept. 2012)

Sweden: Ann-Charlott Larsson

United Kingdom: Anthony Clarke, Julie Sewell and Rebecca Wheater

United States: Eugene Owen and Stephen Provasnik

OECD secretariat

Veronica Borg, Consultant, (2013)

Fionnuala Canning, Project Assistant (2008-11)

Ji Eun Chung, Analyst (2012-13)

Niccolina Clements, Project Assistant (2010-11)

Vanessa Denis, Statistician (2012-13)

Richard Desjardins, Analyst (2010-13)

Marta Encinas-Martin, Analyst (2012-13)

Anne Fichen, Statistician (2013)

Paulina Granados Zambrano, Statistician (2012-13)

Bo Hansson, Analyst, (2008-09)

Mark Keese, Head of Division (2008-13)

Viktoria Kis, Analyst (2012-13)

Sabrina Leonarduzzi, Project Assistant (2010-13)

Alistair Nolan, Senior Economist (2004-07)

Michele Pellizzari, Analyst (2012-13)

Glenda Quintini, Senior Analyst (2011-13)

Yasuhito Sakurai, Analyst (2010-13)

Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director, strategic development and co-ordination (2008-13)

Takashi Sukegawa, Analyst (2009-10)

William Thorn, Senior Analyst and Project Manager (2008-13)

Notes regarding Cyprus

Note by Turkey: The information in this document with reference to “Cyprus” relates to the southern part of the Island. There is no single authority representing both Turkish and Greek Cypriot people on the Island. Turkey recognises the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Until a lasting and equitable solution is found within the context of the United Nations, Turkey shall preserve its position concerning the “Cyprus issue”.

Note by all the European Union Member States of the OECD and the European Union: The Republic of Cyprus is recognised by all members of the United Nations with the exception of Turkey. The information in this document relates to the area under the effective control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.

Note

← 1. See notes at the end of this Annex.

Annex C. Project participants in Round 1 of the Survey of Adult Skills