Research Catalog

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.

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Details

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

• Functional literacy > United States > Evaluation
• 05.15 reading
• Functional literacy > Evaluation
• Alfabetisme
• Metingen
• Volwassenen
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-201).

Contents

1. Introduction. Problem Statement -- Overarching Goals -- Limitations on Inferences About Literacy Skills -- Committe's Approach to the Charge -- Overview of the Report -- 2. Adult Literacy Assessments And Adult Education. Literacy Demands and the Need for the Assessments -- Literacy Assessments -- Uses of Results of Adult Literacy Assessments -- 3. Develping Performance Levels For The National Adult Literacy Survey. Background on Develping Performance Levels -- Development of NALS Tasks -- Development of Performance-Level Descriptions and Cut Scores -- Choice of Response Probability Values -- Mapping Items to Performance Levels -- Conclusion -- Technical Note -- 4. Determining Performance Levels For The National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Stakeholder Views -- Relatiionships Between Literacy Scores and Background Characteristics -- Developing Policy-Relevant Performance Levels -- 5. Developing Performance-Level Descriptions and Setting Cut Scores. The Bookmark Standard-Setting Method -- Bookmark Standard Setting with 1992 Data -- Bookmark Standard Setting with 2003 Data -- Results from the Standard-Setting Sessions -- Contrasting Groups Standard-Setting Method -- Adjusting the Bookmark Cut Scores -- Difficulties with the Upper and Lower Ends of the Schore Scale -- 6. Communicating and Using the Results of Literacy Assessments. Communicating Results -- Communication Strategies -- Examples of Ways NAAL Results May Be Uses -- 7. Recommendations for Future Literacy Assessments. Demand-Side Analysis of Critical Skills -- Improving the Information Collected About Adult Non-English Speakers -- Rethinking and Broadening the Definition of Literacy -- Conclusion -- 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.

ISBN

• 0309096529
• 9780309096522
• 0309550157
• 9780309550154

LCCN

2005021251

OCLC

• ocm61169739
• 61169739
• SCSB-8906931

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library