Performance Assessments for Adult Education
eBook - ePub

Performance Assessments for Adult Education

Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop

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eBook - ePub

Performance Assessments for Adult Education

Exploring the Measurement Issues: Report of a Workshop

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About this book

In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and limited English proficient adults. Those receiving adult education services have diverse reasons for seeking additional education. With the passage of the WIA, the assessment of adult education students became mandatory-regardless of their reasons for seeking services. The law does allow the states and local programs flexibility in selecting the most appropriate assessment for the student. The purpose of the NRC's workshop was to explore issues related to efforts to measure learning gains in adult basic education programs, with a focus on performance-based assessments.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9780309169578
Edition
0
Topic
Education

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP ON ALTERNATIVES FORASSESSING ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROGRAMS
  4. BOARD ON TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Background
  9. 3 Assessment and Test Design
  10. 4 Quality Standards for Performance Assessments
  11. 5 Developing Performance Assessments for the National Reporting System
  12. 6 Challenges in Adult Education
  13. 7 Options and Strategies
  14. References
  15. APPENDIX A Workshop Agenda
  16. APPENDIX B Workshop Participants
  17. APPENDIX C Adult Education and Family Literacy Act FY 2001 Appropriation for State Grants