LSAL Project Instruments and Data Collection
Screening interview conducted through
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview to identify and recruit the sample
Survey instruments administered in respondents’ homes using Computer
Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI questionnaire)
TALS Document Literacy assessment
Standardized assessments of literacy using the ETS Test of Applied Literacy
Skills. A technical discussion of this test can be found in the documentation
of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy Survey (1992) by clicking on the
link below (I. Kirsch, K. Yamamoto, N. Norris, D. Rock, A. Jungeblut, P. O’Reilly,
A. Campbell, L. Jenkins, A. Kolstad, M. Berlin, L. Mohadjer, J. Waksberg, H.
Goksel, J. Burke, S. Rieger, J. Green, M. Klein, P. Mosenthal, S. Baldi.
Web release: April 11, 2000. Technical
Report and Data File Users Manual for the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey.
National Center for Education Statistics publication # 2001457).
This assessment is also being used in the 2002 National Assessment of Adult
Literacy and the International Adult Literacy Survey 1996) and the International
Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (2003).
Oral and written assessment.
Wave 1: Adult Reading Assessment Vocabulary and Word Reading Assessments developed
by Jean Chall and John Strrucker
Wave 2: General Social Survey “Wordsum” vocabulary assessment
Wave 5: TOWRE Reading diagnostic; writing sample
SSN - matched administrative data.
These data are available from the Oregon state agencies through special arrangement
for educational research. They include community
college participation, GED test taking and certification, and unemployment
insurance (UI) hours and wages. Approximately 80% of the sample gave us
permission to use their social security numbers to match these data bases.
Data Collection
The two manuals available here were designed by Clare Strawn and developed and added to by field staff through practice over seven years of longitudinal data collection.
We are making them available here to encourage and support other research projects.
They include systems and procedures as well as sample forms, scripts and letters.
Feel free to borrow and modify them for your own work.
Interviewer Training Manual Word Document PDF Document
Retention How-To Manual Word Document PDF Document
