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Download full textStites, Regie – 2000
This paper identifies issues in defining and reporting performance standards for the 2002 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). The paper describes a continuum of conceptualizations of performance standards for adult literacy extending from "technical" conceptions of performance standards, as used in the psychometric literature,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Competence
Reder, Stephen; Edmonston, Barry – 2000
Anticipated demographic changes in the United States adult population in the decade between the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 and the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), which is scheduled for 2002, were reviewed. Next, the implications of those changes for the NALS and NAAL were analyzed. The analysis focused on births,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Aging (Individuals)
