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A Slow Burn: The Impact Of Ials In Australia, Juliette Mendelovits
A Slow Burn: The Impact Of Ials In Australia, Juliette Mendelovits
Juliette Mendelovits
Australia Australia has put its hand up to participate in all the international literacy surveys on offer: IALS in the second wave (1996), the ALL Survey in the second wave (2006), and PIAAC in 2011-12 – in the field right now. Nevertheless, until very recently Australia’s general response to the surveys can best be described as inert: more in the vein of our habitual “she’ll be right” than the “clever country” that our prime minister of the 1980s urged us to become. For most of the period since the IALS results were published in 1997, Australia paid little attention to …