Colleagues: A report entitled Testing and Accountability in Adult Literacy
Education: Focus on Workplace Literacy Resources for Program Design,
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation is available online at
http://www.nald.ca/library/research/sticht/testing/testing.pdf

It provides knowledge resources for designing, delivering and evaluating
workplace literacy programs, including guidelines from the National
Workplace Literacy Program; it discusses testing and accountability
(including what to do about negative gain scores when the pre-test score is
larger than the post-test scoreS); case study of the evaluation of six
workplace literacy/ESOL programs in the Chicago area; determining how many
adults are lacking in workforce literacy: the national and international
adult literacy surveys,includes a table for converting CASAS scores to
ABLE, TABE or NALS scores

Tom Sticht