With this book we present a selection of articles that critically deal with (internationally
comparative) large-scale assessments. We acknowledge that studies such as PIAAC are often
designed financed and implemented on the basis of neo-liberal worldviews. Nevertheless we
would like to use the articles that are presented here to show the various ways in which adult
and continuing education can benefit and learn from the knowledge that they generate. This book
features eleven articles which - with the NLS's theoretical considerations and points of
criticism in mind - find new and alternative evaluations and interpretations of the data.
