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About this book
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 Departments request for assistance in determining a means for booking assessment results that would be useful and understandable for NAALS 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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Table of contents
- FrontMatter
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Adult Literacy Assessments and Adult Education
- 3 Developing Performance Levels for the National Adult Literacy Survey
- 4 Determining Performance Levels for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy
- 5 Developing Performance-Level Descriptions and Setting Cut Scores
- 6 Communicating and Using the Results of Literacy Assessments
- 7 Recommendations for Future Literacy Assessments
- References
- Appendixes
- Appendix A The Committee’s Public Forums on Performance Levels for NAAL
- Appendix B Examination of the Dimensionality of NALS
- Appendix C July 2004 Bookmark Standard-Setting Session with the 1992 NALS Data
- Appendix D September 2004 Bookmark Standard-Setting Session with the 2003 NAAL Data
- Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff