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Book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey An overview

Download or read book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey An overview written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical Report and Data File User s Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey

Download or read book Technical Report and Data File User s Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey written by Andrew Kolstad and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, a nationally representative household survey was conducted to assess the literacy skills of the adult population in the U.S. The results include more than a million responses to the literacy tasks and background questions, providing information that is essential to understanding the nation's literacy resources. Chapters: Overview; Sample Design; Weighting and Population. Estimates; Development of the Survey Instruments; The Household Survey; The Prison Survey; Estimating Literacy Proficiencies w/ and w/o Cognitive Data; Scaling and Proficiency Est.; Evaluation. of Sample Design and Composite Est.; Construct Validity of the Adult Literacy Scales; and Interpreting the Adult Literacy Scales and Literacy Levels. Numerous charts and tables.

Book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey Sample design

Download or read book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey Sample design written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evaluation of the 1992 NALS Background Survey Questionnaire

Download or read book Evaluation of the 1992 NALS Background Survey Questionnaire written by M. Cecil Smith and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study focused on researchers' use of the English-Language Background Questionnaire (EBQ) portion of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the results of which were released in 1993. Data were gathered by surveying NALS data users about how they have used the EBQ data, their perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of the EBQ, and their recommendations for changes to the EBQ. A content analysis was also conducted of published research papers that have involved analyses of the EBQ data to determine how the data were used in these research analyses. The study also drew upon recommendations garnered by a series of focus groups conducted by the American Institutes for Research in 1998. These sources were integrated with the study's own analysis of the NALS data. The following changes to the EBQ for future adult literacy assessments were recommended: expand the questions pertaining to educational experiences; expand the section on social and political participation or move the current items to other areas and delete this section; add an item on voter registration; acquire more detailed information regarding work history, wages, and parents' occupations; expand the section pertaining to literacy practices; and gather information on technological literacy practices. (Appendixes include 34 references; instruments; and studies examined for content review.) (YLB)

Book Findings from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey

Download or read book Findings from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey written by Irwin S. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey

Download or read book 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey written by Irwin S. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adult Literacy in OECD Countries

Download or read book Adult Literacy in OECD Countries written by T. Scott Murray and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1995, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and Statistics Canada jointly published the results of the first International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). For this survey, representative samples of adults aged 16 to 65 were interviewed and tested in their homes in Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. This report describes how the survey was conducted in each country and presents all available evidence on the extent of bias in each country's data. Potential sources of bias, including sampling error, non-sampling error, and the cultural appropriateness and construct validity of the assessment instruments, are discussed. The chapters are; (1) "Introduction" (Irwin S. Kirsch and T. Scott Murray); (2) "Sample Design" (Nancy Darcovich); (3) "Survey Response and Weighting" (Nancy Darcovich); (4) "Non-Response Bias" (Nancy Darcovich, Marilyn Binkley, Jon Cohen, Mats Myrberg, and Stefan Persson); (5) "Data Collection and Processing" (Nancy Darcovich and T. Scott Murray); (6) "Incentives and the Motivation To Perform Well" (Stan Jones); (7) "The Measurement of Adult Literacy" (Irwin S. Kirsch, Ann Jungeblut, and Peter B. Mosenthal); (8) "Validity Generalization of the Assessment across Countries" (Don Rock); (9) "An Analysis of Items with Different Parameters across Countries" (Marilyn R. Binkley and Jean R. Pignal); (10) "Scaling and Scale Linking" (Kentaro Yamamoto); (11) "Proficiency Estimation" (Kentaro Yamamoto and Irwin S. Kirsch); (12) "Plausibility of Proficiency Estimates" (Richard Shillington); and (13) "Nested-Factor Models for the Swedish IALS Data" (Bo Palaszewski). Fourteen appendixes contain supplemental information, some survey questionnaires, and additional documentation for various chapters. (Contains 94 tables, 12 figures, and 74 references.) (SLD)

Book Secondary Statistical Modeling with the National Assessment of Adult Literacy

Download or read book Secondary Statistical Modeling with the National Assessment of Adult Literacy written by David Kaplan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper offers recommendations to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on the development of the background questionnaire for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). The recommendations are from the viewpoint of a researcher interested in applying sophisticated statistical models to address important issues in adult literacy. The paper focuses on five issues, each of which is the subject of a section of the paper: sampling; selection bias; measurement; policy modeling; and gauging cohort effects. Each section considers the scope of the issue and then makes recommendations to NCES. These recommendations include providing all appropriate sampling weights in NAAL data; examining contextual effects on the distribution of literacy ability in the population; considering relevant auxiliary variables that would constitute the selection equation; considering the hypothesized number of factors and including at least four variables measuring each factor in the questionnaire; obtaining retrospective data on general and job-specific literacy-related activities; and exploring the possibility of linking NAAL with existing longitudinal surveys. (Contains 21 references.) (YLB)

Book Technical Report and Data File User s Manual

Download or read book Technical Report and Data File User s Manual written by Mark Kutner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy skills of a nationally representative sample of more than 19,000 U.S. adults (age 16 and older) residing in households and correctional institutions. NAAL is the first national assessment of adult literacy since the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). The NAAL and NALS produced direct estimates of Prose, Document, and Quantitative literacy, each reported on a 0 to 500 scale and on four performance levels: Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient based on this scale. This report provides information on the 2003 NAAL development and implementation, including development of survey instruments; field test and main assessment sample design; assessment items and scoring rubrics; data collection process and quality of the data; weighting, scaling, treatment of missing data, and data analysis. In addition, the NAAL technical report includes detail information on the development of NAAL innovative additions--Fluency Addition to NAAL (FAN) and Adult Literacy Supplement Assessment (ALSA). Other sections of the report contain information about health literacy cognitive items, data collection and analysis in the US correctional institutions and a user's manual on how to use statistical programs for analyzing NAAL data. The NAAL Technical Report and Data File User's Manual is a key resource for secondary data analysts and for those who want to understand how NAAL was developed and implemented. Chapters include: (1) The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy: An Overview (Mark Kutner and Elizabeth Moore); (2) Development of the Survey Instruments (Elizabeth Greenberg); (3) Field Test (Michelle Amsbary, Martha Berlin, Thomas Krenzke, Leyla Mohadjer, Lyn Clark, and Jacqueline Hogan); (4) Field-Test Scoring and Analysis of Field-Test Data (Elizabeth Greenberg); (5) Field Test of the Fluency Addition to NAAL (Michelle Amsbary); (6) Field Test of Adult Literacy Supplemental Assessment (Michelle Amsbary and Barbara Forsyth); (7) Sample Design (Leyla Mohadjer and Thomas Krenzke); (8) Main Household Study Data Collection and Quality Control (Michelle Amsbary, Martha Berlin, Thomas Krenzke, and Leyla Mohadjer); (9) Correctional Institution Study Data Collection and Quality Control (Michelle Amsbary, Terri Annis, and Martha Berlin); (10) Reducing the Risk of Data Disclosure (Thomas Krenzke, Sylvia Dohrmann, and Laura Alvarez-Rojas); (11) Response Rates and Nonresponse Bias Analysis (Thomas Krenzke and Leyla Mohadjer); (12) Weighting and Variance Estimation (Thomas Krenzke and Leyla Mohadjer); (13) Scoring (Justin Baer, Jared Bernstein, and Michelle Amsbary); (14) Item Analysis, Scaling, and Estimates of Subpopulation Proficiencies (Stephane Baldi and Justin Baer); (15) The Literacy of Adults without Cognitive Data (Ying Jin and Stephane Baldi); (16) Variable Construction and File Development (Ying Jin); and (17) The NAAL Health Literacy Component (Ying Jin and Eric Dunleavy). Appended are: (1) Derived Variables; (2) Instructions On Using AM Software to Analyze the 2003 NAAL Data; (3) Electronic Codebook For Windows User's Manual; (4) NAAL Item Descriptions and Parameters; (5) P-Values Of NAAL 2003 Items; (6) NAAL Household Background Questionnaire; and (7) NAAL Prison Background Questionnaire. (Contains 135 tables, 19 figures, and 1 exhibit.).

Book Using telephone and mail surveys as a supplement or alternative to door to door surveys in the assessment of adult literacy

Download or read book Using telephone and mail surveys as a supplement or alternative to door to door surveys in the assessment of adult literacy written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: