Measuring Literacy:

Performance Levels for Adults

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Publication Year:2005

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Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy, Robert M. Hauser, Christopher F. Edley Jr., Judith Anderson Koenig, and Stuart W. Elliott, Editors, National Research Council
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The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conducted periodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. NAAL results are used ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-14	(skim)
1 Introduction	15-22	(skim)
2 Adult Literacy Assessments and Adult Education	23-49	(skim)
3 Developing Performance Levels for the National Adult Literacy Survey	50-86	(skim)
4 Determining Performance Levels for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy	87-107	(skim)
5 Developing Performance Level Descriptions and Setting Cut Scores	108-166	(skim)
6 Communicating and Using the Results of Literacy Assessments	167-181	(skim)
7 Recommendations for Future Literacy Assessments	182-195	(skim)
References	196-202	(skim)
APPENDIX A: The Committee s Public Forums on Performance Levels for NAAL	203-213	(skim)
APPENDIX B: Examination of the Dimensionality of NALS	214-220	(skim)
APPENDIX C: July 2004 Bookmark Standard-Setting Session with the 1992 NALS Data	221-284	(skim)
APPENDIX D: September 2004 Bookmark Standard-Setting Session with the 2003 NAAL Data	285-326	(skim)
APPENDIX E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff	327-336	(skim)

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The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conducted periodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. NAAL results are used to characterize adults literacy skills and to inform policy and programmatic decisions. The Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy was convened at the Department s request for assistance in determining a means for booking assessment results that would be useful and understandable for NAAL S many varied audiences. Through a process detailed in the book, the committee determined that five performance level categories should be used to characterize adults literacy skills: nonliterate in English, below basic literacy, basic literacy, intermediate literacy, and advanced literacy. This book documents the process the committee used to determine these performance categories, estimates the percentages of adults whose literacy skills fall into each category, recommends ways to communicate about adults literacy skills based on NAAL, and makes suggestions for ways to improve future assessments of adult literacy.

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