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Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy
Project Scope:
The Board on Testing and Assessment will conduct a 15-month study that will provide an objective analysis of the performance levels that were selected in 1992 for the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), recommendations for whether alternative standards are needed and, if so, what they should be. This project will inform the standards setting for the 2003 re-administration of the NALS. As a result of its reviews, discussions, and deliberations, the committee may decide that changes are needed in the cutpoints set for performance levels or in the process for setting the cutpoints. Based on the information collected from project activities, the committee will prepare a report that documents their reviews of background information, describes any analyses and/or standard setting procedures conducted, presents their conclusions and/or recommendations, and provides the rationale for their decisions.
This study is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Measuring Literacy: Performance Levels for Adults, Interim Report (2005)
A Final Report will be issued at the end of the project.
MEMBERSHIP:
- CHRISTOPHER F. EDLEY, Jr. (Co-Chair), Harvard Law School
- ROBERT M. HAUSER (Co-Chair), Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin
- JUDITH A. ALAMPRESE, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD
- MICHAEL X. DELLI CARPINI, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- VIVIAN L. GADSDEN, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
- ANDREW J. HARTMAN, Bell Policy Center, Denver, CO
- GLYNDA A. HULL, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
- REBECCA A. MAYNARD, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
- LORRAINE MCDONNELL, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
- LARRY MIKULECKY, Language Education Department, Indiana University
- ROBERT J. MISLEVY, Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Maryland
- NORMAN G. PETERSON, Satisfaction Performance Research (SPR) Center, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
- JOHN P. POGGIO, Department of Psychology and Research in Education, University of Kansas
- RIMA RUDD, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health
- MARY JANE SCHMITT, TERC, Cambridge, MA
- HEIDE SPRUCK WRIGLEY, Aguirre International, HQ, San Mateo, CA
- DAVID M. THISSEN, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
For more information:
The National Academies
Center for Education – 11th Floor
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Tel: 202-334-3462
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Fax: 202-334-1294
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Email: lalston@nas.edu
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