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Measuring literacy : performance levels for adults

Title
Measuring literacy : performance levels for adults / Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy ; Robert M. Hauser [and others], editors ; Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Hauser, Robert Mason.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy.
Description
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-201).
Contents
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 -- App. A. The committee's public forums on performance levels for NAAL -- App. B. Examination of the dimensionality of NALS -- App. C. July 2004 bookmark standard-setting session with the 1992 NALS data -- App. D. September 2004 bookmark standard-setting session with the 2003 NAAL data.
ISBN
  • 0309096529 (pbk.)
  • 0309550157 (pdf)
LCCN
2005021251
OCLC
  • ocm61169739
  • SCSB-5267063
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries