Test Review: The Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) Life Skills Reading Tests

Autor/inn/en	Gorman, David; Ernst, Megan L.
Titel	Test Review: The Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) Life Skills Reading Tests
Quelle	In: Language Assessment Quarterly, 1 (2004) 1, S.73-84 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1543-4303
Schlagwörter	Reading Tests; Adult Basic Education; Lifelong Learning; Test Reviews; Adult Students; Reading Ability; Daily Living Skills; English (Second Language); Evaluation; Validity; Construct Validity; Pretests Posttests; Item Response Theory; Scores; Test Items; Difficulty Level; Academic Ability; California; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesetest; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Alltagsfertigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Evaluierung; Gültigkeit; Item-Response-Theorie; Test content; Testaufgabe; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Kalifornien; USA
Abstract	Lifelong learning has become an important goal of education over the last decade. According to the United States Department of Education (2001), nearly 3 million students over age 17 (excluding those institutionalized) enrolled in adult basic education, adult secondary education, or English as a second language classes in the United States. Historically, language assessment of this special population, often immigrants or low-income participants, at best, has been acceptable, at worst, inadequate. In the early 1980's, the California Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS, renamed the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System) was developed to create curriculum and testing materials to assess this unique group of students. CASAS tests are used throughout the United States to evaluate adult basic skills in a wide variety of workforce and academic programs. This review focuses on the most widely used CASAS exams: the multilevel criterion-referenced life skills tests that assess basic literacy and reading ability. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10