Originally published by the ETS Policy Information Center in 1994, it was designed as a primer on what was learned from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Study. It provides the definition of the prose, document and quantitative literacy scales and describes the proficiency of the adult population of America. It provides examples of tasks that adults at different levels of literacy are able to perform.
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The results of six of these analyses were translated into the five levels of literacy used in the National Adult Literacy Study. After setting content standards, describing what people in various occupations must know and be able to do, and after expressing these scales or levels, it is necessary to set performance standards. Performance standards tell us how much you need to know or be able to do. This paper describes the approaches that are available for doing this. Economic Key for the New Millennium .