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Issues Involved in Designing and Administering an Assessment Instrument to Measure Adult Learners' Progress in Numeracy Classes
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Swain, Jon; Brown, Margaret; Coben, Diana; Rhodes, Valerie; Ananiadou, Katerina; Brown, Peter – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2008
This paper describes the process of designing and administering a sufficiently valid and reliable assessment instrument to measure the progress in attainment of adult learners studying numeracy, and discusses some of the inherent difficulties that were involved. The fieldwork took place during 2003-2005 and involved a sample of 34 teachers and 412…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Psychometrics