Highlights from the 2003 Massachusetts State Assessment of Adult Literacy

Autor/inn/en	Baer, Justin D.; Hsu, Yung-chen
Institution	American Institutes for Research (CRESS), Kensington, MD.
Titel	Highlights from the 2003 Massachusetts State Assessment of Adult Literacy
Quelle	(2006), (41 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Employment Level; Numeracy; Educational Attainment; Adult Literacy; Adult Education; Racial Differences; Gender Differences; Ethnicity; Age Differences; Employment Status; English; Massachusetts; United States; National Assessment of Adult Literacy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beschäftigungsgrad; Rechenkompetenz; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Rassenunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ethnizität; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; English language; Englisch; Master-Studiengang; USA
Abstract	This report summarizes key findings from the 2003 Massachusetts State Assessment of Adult Literacy (SAAL). Administered in Massachusetts in 2003 and early 2004, the assessment measures the prose, document, and quantitative literacy of Massachusetts's adults. The Massachusetts SAAL was conducted in conjunction with the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), a national literacy assessment sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics of the United States Department of Education. This introduction provides an overview of the 2003 Massachusetts SAAL, including the relationship between NAAL and SAAL, the definition of literacy used by SAAL and NAAL, a description of the literacy levels used in the report, and the design of the SAAL assessment. The following section compares the literacy of adults in Massachusetts with the literacy of adults in the nation across six important background characteristics: race/ethnicity, gender, age, language spoken before starting school, educational attainment, and employment status. The following are appended: (1) Technical Notes; (2) Sample Assessment Questions; and (3) Standard Errors for Tables and Figures. (Contains 11 figures, 16 tables, and 2 footnotes.) [This report was prepared under funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10