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- (from website) The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy is a nationally representative assessment of English literacy among American adults age 16 and older. Sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NAAL is the nation's most comprehensive measure of adult literacy since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). This website acts as a portal to all reports and information related to the NAAL.
- The Assessment Discussion List held a discussion about the Supplemental Studies part of the NAAL May 26-29, 2009. Click here for access to the announcement and transcripts.
The precursor to the NAAL (see above) was the National Adult Literacy Survey of 1992. This website houses the major reports related to this study.
Prepared by the National Center for the Study of Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL), this Research Brief discusses the results of a study designed to describe the various types of readers enrolled in U.S. adult basic education (ABE)programs, including both native speakers and those in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes. [4 pages]
In this Focus on Basics article, John Strucker describes the limitations of silent standardized reading assessments to inform instruction. He presents two students with similar scores on such an assessment and then shows how other assessments in particular areas (word identification, word meaning, etc.) reveal underlying influences on their overall comprehension.
In this NCSALL Occasional Paper, John Strucker and members of his research team describe how the assessments were chosen and the data collected for the Adult Reading Components Study. [23 pages]
In this 30-minute video panel, David Rosen moderates a discussion with ARCS researchers Rosalind Davidson and John Strucker and practitioners Kay Vaccaro and Jane Meyer.
A discussion was held in late May, 2006 on the National Insttiute for Literacy Special Topics Discussion List about the new Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS). Guest researchers Rosalind Davidson and John Strucker answered questions about the ARCS and the ARCS web page designed for teachers (www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles).
George Demetrion < george.demetrion@lvgh.org > posted to the AAACE-NLA electronic discussion list on May 30, 2006 a description of the various causes of low adult English literacy. He received comments from several list subscribers, and over several weeks he offered and accepted other changes. This article was posted on July 12, 2006.
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