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Download full textLinacre, John M. – 1996
Measurement is prescriptive in that the model required to produce the numbers from the phenomena is known in advance. Statistical theory is descriptive because the model required to explain the numbers is inferred from the numbers and any other information the researcher can bring to bear. There are well-known families of measurement models and…
Descriptors: Demography, Item Response Theory, Literacy, Mathematical Models
Haigler, Karl O.; And Others – 1994
During the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), trained staff interviewed nearly 1,150 inmates in 80 federal and state prisons that had been randomly selected to represent prisons across the country. Survey participants completed diverse literacy tasks and answered questions regarding demographic characteristics, educational background, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Demography
Kaestle, Carl F.; Campbell, Anne; Finn, Jeremy D.; Johnson, Sylvia T.; Mikulecky, Larry J. – 2001
Based on the National Adult Literacy Survey of 1992, which described the literacy skills of adults in the United States (based on data drawn from a random sample of 13,600 adults across the United States, and from telephone interviews with additional adults and from other sources, with a total of 26,000 adult participants), this report contains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Competence, Demography
Baldwin, Janet – ACE Research Briefs, 1995
A study was made of the prose, document, and quantitative literacy skills of adults in the United States by their highest level of educational attainment. In addition, the study examined the literacy skills of recent General Educational Development (GED) graduates. The data used in the study came from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Blacks
Barton, Paul E.; Jenkins, Lynn – 1995
Data from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey were analyzed in a study of the relationship between literacy skill levels and dependency on welfare. The study focused on the following: literacy levels in the welfare population and in different demographic groups, the relationship between educational attainment and literacy and labor force…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demography, Education Work Relationship
Smith, M. Cecil; Sheehan-Holt, Janet K. – 2000
A study focused on researchers' use of the English-Language Background Questionnaire (EBQ) portion of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the results of which were released in 1993. Data were gathered by surveying NALS data users about how they have used the EBQ data, their perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of the EBQ, and their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Participation, Content Analysis
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)
