Programme for the International
Assessment of Adult Competencies

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, we will continue our scientific conference series on PIAAC and hold the third international research conference in March 2022. The conference is scheduled after the publication of the data from 3rd PIAAC round of cycle 1 as well as the field test of PIAAC cycle 2. This will allow to look at results based on more than 40 countries and outline survey and methodological issues from the second PIAAC cycle.
The addressees of the conference are primarily researchers who work or want to work with PIAAC data, as well as project managers who are commissioned to carry out the study in the respective countries.

Conference Topics

The conference will tackle diverse and interdisciplinary topics related to adults’ cognitive skills, such as: Relation of skills and health, low literacy, relation of skills and digitalization and automation (e.g., challenges of automation in the labor market; skills behind the robotics), relation of skills and personality, determinants of cognitive skills, relation of skills and economic outcomes, cognitive skills and lifelong learning (e.g., effects of vocational and non-vocational training; aging; cohort effects), cognitive skills across demographic groups (e.g., gender, migration, indigenous people), skills mismatch, PIAAC survey methodology, assessment of cognitive skills, process data, small area estimation, linking PIAAC to other surveys or administrative, etc.
We welcome both contributions with a substantial focus as well as methodological contributions. Contributions should either use PIAAC data or provide valuable insights for the further development of PIAAC.

Timeline

Call for Papers

Abstract submission until October 31, 2021.

Types of contributions

We welcome both contributions with a substantial focus as well as methodological contributions. All contributions should either use PIAAC data or provide valuable insights for further development of PIAAC.

Symposia (90 min)

A symposium consists of four presentations and is organized by a chair. As a focused session in which individual speakers present their research on a common issue, the symposium should provide diversity of perspective as well as the integration of the different perspectives. Please submit the title and an abstract of the symposium (max. 350 words) along with the authors’ names and affiliations, titles and abstracts (max. 350 words) for each of the contributions.

Single Presentations (15 min)

Single presentations will be arranged in thematic sessions consisting of three to four presentations (session length: 90 min). Please submit the names and affiliations of the authors, the title of your presentation and an abstract (max. 350 words).

Registration

Registration will stay open until March 16, 2022. There are no conference fees. The conference will be limited to a maximum of 300 participants. When registration has reached this maximum number of participants it will be closed.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact us (piaac2022(at)gesis(dot)org).

Organizing Committee at GESIS:

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Rammstedt & Dr. Débora B. Maehler
Maria Kreppe-Aygün, Daniela Niederauer, Jennifer Dickson & Dennis Schüle

Scientific Advisory Board:

• Prof. Dr. Julia Gorges (Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg)

• Prof. Dr. Jan Paul Heisig (Berlin Social Science Center, WZB, Berlin)

• Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, LIfBi, Bamberg)

• Dr. Matthias von Davier (Boston College, Boston)

• Prof. Dr. Simon Wiederhold (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt)

GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences
P.O. Box 12  21 55
68072 Mannheim, Germany
E-Mail: piaac2022(at)gesis(dot)org