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Study of basic competencies in the adult population

Techonological transformations require higher levels of cognitive skills. The proposed research will develop new instruments for the measurement of basic skills used in understanding prose and poetry, documents and quantitative reasoning. The new instruments will be applied to a household probability sample in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, and Campinas, SP, for the purpose of identifying the potential and shortcoming in basic competencies among the adult population. The project will train personel in the elaboration of new test instruments, fielwork techniques and in psychometric analisys, enabling future studies of basic skills in the Brazilian labor force.


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