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Download full textBarton, Paul E. – 1994
In 1993, under contract from the National Center for Education Statistics, the Educational Testing Service assessed the literacy proficiencies of a nationally representative sample of all adults, aged 16 and over, from nearly 27,000 homes. That assessment, the National Adult Literacy Survey, produced a profile of the English literacy skills of the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Criteria, Definitions
Bruschi, Barbara A.; Coley, Richard J. – 1999
Data from the National Adult Literacy Study (NALS) are used to analyze the prose, document, and quantitative literacy of U.S. teachers and compare them to the literacy of other adults. More than 26,000 people were interviewed for the NALS. As a group, teachers score relatively high in prose, document, and quantitative literacy, and there are no…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education
