Today the National Center for Education Statistics released a new
report, Technical Report and Data File User's Manual for the  2003
National Assessment of Adult Literacy.  The report details information
on the development and implementation of the 2003 NAAL.  Key sections of
the report include information on the 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. 

 

Other sections of the report include technical information on the:

 

1.      development of NAAL innovative additions--Fluency Addition to
NAAL (FAN) and Adult Literacy Supplement Assessment (ALSA); 

2.      types and dimensions of the health literacy cognitive items; 

3.      data collection and data analysis in the US correctional
institutions;

4.      a user's manual on how to use statistical programs for
analyzing NAAL data.  

 

 

To view the full report please visit NAAL web site at: NCES.Ed.GOV/NAAL
<http://nces.ed.gov/naal/> 

 

Jaleh Behroozi Soroui

 

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